The Cult of Odin: Ecstatic Warbands of Pre-Christian Europe | UiO Student Conference 2023 

You should look into the old Irish war bands -The Fianna- loads of similarities with the Nordic/Germanic/Gaulish war bands from the wearing of Wolf skins to having "Warp Spasms" or Berserker battle madness/lust, poetry, Martial art training etc.. one member of the Fianna is Cu Chulainn who after having a Berserker/Warp Spasm moment the king in the ring fort ordered all the women present to go out to him topless and then fill 3 baths with icy water to "cool him off" and he boiled the first one to steam!, the second one he heated till almost boiling and the last one finally cooled him down and the topless women distracted him from killing others while still cooling down. Also the most common name in Ireland is Murphy which in Irish is Mac Murchada and translates into Sea Warriors/Sea Raiders which shows that Norse/Danes/Saxons weren't the first or last in Europe to go a Viking they just did it when people could write and record about it and yeah we all had pretty similar customs leading way back into the Neolithic era(iron age).

No spear dance?! I've been had!

My concept of Odin and what you explained blew my mind! Odin was a Disney character in thought to me but you unveiled something amazing! Thank you!

Would be interesting to see the lecture on Anglo Saxon paganism referenced in the Frisian paganism video, as well as ant others from this event

Super interesting. Thank you for throwing this lecture up for the world to see! It would be super if you could repeat the questions back before answering them, so that those of us not in the actual room could hear them. Thank you!

In todays German "Wut" can still translated to mad frenzy or anger, don't know how if that actually correlates to the ancient cognates tho...

The finding of an attestation of a word that linguists reconstructed is so cool

I always like calling it the Divine Ecstasy, when Odin blesses his warriors. Maybe it sounds more theatrical, but it sounds about right. I found an interesting reference to the Wild Hunt in the story of the Trial of the Holy Berserker Bearskin. It's a really good story if you come upon it. I can provide a link, but I know that people don't tend to trust links

I became (or embraced) "Paganism" 30+ yrs ago when i was 16. Became part of an Odinic "Cult" about 10 yrs. ago. I personally prefer the term "Germanic". And being of English, Swedish & German ancestry I tend not to stint on one version of the old religion, i.e. - Norse, Saxon, etc. I love the Vendel period. For me it is so much cooler than the "Viking" age. Wish we knew more of the religion and Cult practices from back during that period. Great video. Thank you.

Jagaz - he is Odin's man! Vote for Jagaz!

So interesting to hear these talks about specific interests instead of a general view one often gets from other channels

A little bit surprised that the early medieval stories of “dog-headed men” among Germanic people (the Lombards, the Norse who came into conflict with Charlemagne, the Sami tales about the Padnakjunne) could all be references to the group theorized here.

Great video as always dude

Well done and very interesting! You did well with the more formal and long form format of a lecture.

Swedish professor Sven Lagerbring(1707-1787). He has a book titled "Similarities of Swedish with Turkish". In his book, he mentions that Odin is Turkic and tells about the evidence. In his book Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson describes the where Asia and Europe meet. He mentions the River Tanakvísl, which is the river Don, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, among other place names. He also mentions that Óðinn came from the land east of Tanakvísl, in Asia. Maybe this may be interpreted as Tyrkland (Turkey). In Snorra-Edda he also mentions Turks “Tyrkir”, and he claims that the heroics of Hector were actually done by Þór (Thor) and that the Turks called Ulysses Loki, because they were his worst enemies. Tyrkland was in Latin called Asia Minor.

And today we have no spear dances, no teaching or transition to adulthood, we're just left to feel like unfulfilled half adults primed to spend money instead of living

51:05 this reminds me of the war planes covered in bullets allegory. The planes that survive giving us an initial bias to check after further inspection of the sources. Perhaps we have that conception of the Norse being unkempt because the sources were mostly written down by their enemies/ contemporaries. If their own culture rewards these warriors as unkempt, but outside sources describe the culture to be this way broadly, perhaps this reinforces the cultic practice of growing on a hair out.

Mania? Manic? = Fury+Inspired

Classical cults are kinda like football clubs, you strongly favor a specific team but that doesn't stop you from partying or going on a rampage for another (friendly) club 😂

Very interesting - thanks.

Here is a slightly naive question: would Frisians be considered nordic or proto-viking? or classic germanic?

A little fast for my liking though maybe that's the editing. Have some confidence and pace yourself you're doing amazing :)

Amazing lecture, fantastic information that is clearly laid out. But you need to find a few more synonyms for the term "corpus", hahaa.

7:49 the topoy could be a handy tool for understanding modern internet discourse. i wonder about comparing the language of the 19th, 20th & 21st century. it might be English but much has changed.

Hello Hilbert. This was fascinating, though as a wargamer I was never able to get the positive throw of the dice for my berserkers to achieve a crushing victory. Perhaps my belief was not strong enough? For Geordies, war band would obviously be Lindisfarne with their famous berserker Gazza reciting the sacred lyrics of the poem about Fog on the Tyne. I had no problems with the dice when I swapped to fanatical Christian Abyssinians, who had the added the advantage of cavalry and elephants. I commented before how I imagined them like berserkers with war mammoths.

WoTaN Poem For Wotan [Rough Cut IP] All I have done and stories spun, hounds run, enemies and wenches broken All are bespoken For Wotan All that I have I have won and those I’ve smote Those bested in hollow hills and valleys and from whom their souls I’ve wrung from them and held up to All Father, for his Norns to shear the strings of their Lives offer, to make the late warriors wives lift up their wails and shrieking screams like gales regale The quick amongst the mouldering fallen Their women’s tears for him to taste All these have I brung For Wotan All I have read and watched and learned, taught and sung and in between all the hazel branches played and prayed, bled and fucked, fought and killed, Blood of outlanders I have spilled, all of the villages I have torched whose women I have taken to make sweet moans to please the ears of him whose mine life is as nothing And this and more that comprises all that I’ve seen witnessed and brought on, For Wotan And all that has been told is said like an echo whose whispers and laughter has fled through grains of the world ocean’s whirling hour glass of sands, and sounds resounding trickle down in red measures of men For we all are to make the path which takes us, If we could we’d dare not choose it That journey of hurts The trail shed lives’ stones Upon which in each other’s and our own Trodden slings and hurt slung arrows foot steps must we all finally follow, and yet from whence for some another fork may break, to feast and dine and stand as we do now upon the ebb of the moon’s flood Of time’s tides, to have sailed through the ages Been sung by sages Cried cries of havoc, havoc Made war and wrecked love As we stabbed and we cut and hacked our wavering lives the legnth and width and breadth of our days daily bread all through And finally those we’ve bound and woven tight as worduride’s Norn tapestries For to have laid before the feet and hung in the halls of Wotan And now my battle cry fear, trace through lines of wise men’s faces chew through shield walls hewn with scarlet not in any but the last day’s sun’s setting To raise it again To make them to meet my thrust and cower beneath the wasps of our bow strung shots To make foemen as corpse hall meat my wovenage my fleets of sea borne fury, the rabble I eschew and break against my heir, enunciate in the blood red spittle of Sagas of our land and mine hosts of glory and Speake my spell to the fates for my enemies to make and pull down in the undertow To drown in the sorrows I’ve spoken them to bind to graves ravens fain to carry tales of Naught but their woman’s tears to sting and fall within like rain in Like curses we’ve spat them out to lay asunder shoulder to throat-less skull by the thousands in corpse strewn fields Yields they once tilled now we’ve sewn With their bloated headless trunks for crows to feast on not six nor two feet beneath blood fertiled earth or sent them below ocean’s surface to wander endless tides beneath the deep in eternally sleepless Seething sheets of unshed tears The skalds to sing my prowess to berserkers I’ve spread the maiden n’ spew from whence my seed flung sprays like crests of waves begotten battles of them and thence cut keels of ships for seas to cleave the surf and sands of new shores break and grate Now hear the Valkyries cry like orphaned gulls to Valhalla war-bands of fallen warriors have I flung in ecstatic fury to be forever unsung for their widows to mourn and when all is being and done then the people will smile and say thanks for all that all I’ve done for them and theirs, For the new lands I have made for them But they and theirs and generations upon generations to come, are all of whom I have ever won Forever for The worship of the foremost Among all, Great All Father Wotan - meh, too long needs work. Ya inspired me for an hour but I et me lunch

can i get the sauce on all the imagery you used plz?

Cool 👍

Mantic States of Fury is the name of my new grindcore band.

My love for you like ticking clock. BERSERKER!

Hello there, honest question; why being a cross dressing wizard and shape shifter contradicts being wise?

36:26 hootchie-kootchie

Woden

May can thou let me wend this to spanish?

Help me out with that word..."typoi"?

I’m here because of Delphi/Moscow lol

I introduced the best betting platform to my Landlord last week, as am talking now we're both tenants 😹🤔

It’s so interesting how much hallucinogenic drugs are associated with the divine. As if the supernatural is very much real but one of the very few ways of contacting gods/demons/angels/spirits/ghosts is by using hallucinogens. Like they’re the portal to the spirit world.

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I thought the wild hunt had been pretty definitively proven to be no older than like the 17 century?

Hilbert, age isn't being kind to you - you look a lot more like Kirk Hammett from Metallica than when I saw you last.

Woden is the north European god of extasy.

So, why is Odin and Paganism a "cult", but Jesus and Christianity is not ? Just askin'

its somehow cute that these warbands choose dance as initiation ritus. half naked men dancing around phalluses reciting poetry. i like how weird the old religion seems to be again abrahamic culture.

Nope

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I have to note that it's very problematic that the speaker didn't preface this talk by stating that when he is talking about "Germanic" or "Norse" or "Scandinavian" that he's not talking about "white people" or "people" with "blonde hair and blue eyes". Ancient Europe was an extremely diverse place with people from all colors and creeds.