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The Assembly of the Elder Troth (AET) is proud to produce the Irminsul. Please find below samples of the contents of this issue.

Irminsul Newsletter Volume 1 - Issue 5 - January/February 2004

Tiller Talk - Editorial - Rurik Grimnisson

Greetings reader; been thinking about the ancestors again. Not in the sense of the gods but our more recent progenitors, the early migrants that left the European homelands for the colonies of Australia. They were, for the most part, Christian believers. So how did Christianity prepare them for a confrontation with the New World after a 12, 000 mile sea voyage that lasted six months.

The Ravens Caw - Editorial - Dirk Schmitt

Have you ever noticed how fractured things can seem. Life is a disjointed roller coaster ride from trial to tribulation and then back again. This is usually combined with a lament from those so afflicted, oh woe is me, why does shit always happen to me? Society is to blame. My parents were too soft. My parents were too hard. I had pathetic teachers at school. In essence, I am a victim, everyone else is responsible, I’m not.

Lithend - Serial Story - Henry Lauer

The leader spoke of the futility of bringing the battle to the beast inside its cave, and they slowly wrought a plan. Two of the men would approach the mouth of the lair and call upon the dragon, dare it to show itself. The others would stand by the entrance, and when it burst forth, they would thrust their spears deep into its underbelly; they were wise enough to grasp that the scales that cloaked the rest of its body would be as mighty a shield as any forged by human hand. It was a reckless plan, and Aela could see all of them were preparing themselves for death already – sacrifices to the myth of the hero.

Tyrvalds Collected Mead Recipes

Riesling Piement

In Search of a Folkway - Article - Dirk Schmitt

It is perhaps the greatest of paradoxical concepts that one could be in search of something which, by its’ very definition is with us regardless. A Folkway is quite literally the ‘way of the Folk’, and as such can apply to any society or culture. Given that most who would be reading this at some stage of their ancestry have been European, we shall concentrate on this, being our own Folkway.

Colouring Page

Fare the Road Forgotten - Poem - Dan Ralph Miller

Fare the road forgotten, gang ye again to Thing:
The end is near for the age when Tyr was hushed by cross and blade,
When Heimdall's holy kindred was scattered 'pon the winds,
The age when Wyrd was dealing woe to both the Gods and men.

Havamal Extract - Auden & Taylor Translation

Young and alone on a long road,
Once I lost my way:
Rich I felt when I found another;
Man rejoices in man,

Einar's Saga - Historical Fiction Serial - Rurik Grimnisson

Ingibjorge offered the horn once again to her troubled guest. Einar sipped anxiously whilst all eyes bore upon him. At the point where Einar's impatience was turning into restless agitation, Gunnstein and his henchmen returned to the board.

Thoughts on Untergehen - Article - Dirk Schmitt

Untergehen is the name we have given to the Feast time which most closely corresponds to the Harvest season. The reasoning behind the change of name, and hence the change of focus, is that in our modern world, and its’ associated society, we are more removed than ever from the idea of cyclical natural time, and hence the notion of harvest tends to be lost on most. In our traditional ancestral cultures the time frame for the Harvest festival was dictated by the changing of the seasons, from being around the time of Autumn as we know it, through to the ending of Summer in the more Northern climates, where there are realistically only two seasons, that of Summer and that of Winter.

Three Book Reviews - Pre-Modern European Animism - Henry Lauer

Each work reviewed has been rated from 0 to 5 in terms of its aesthetic appeal, its content of lore, and a combined rank. A rank of 0 means the work has little or no positive aspects; a rank of 5 is means that the work is a stunning or profound venture; a rank of 2 means that the work is passably useful or interesting. That is to say, a 2 means that the work might be worth buying, but only barely. In the case of reference texts, the aesthetic rating refers to how easy it is to find information and how well laid out the text is.

Jarls Erlag Ting - Mammen Art Style & Battle of Contarf, the Aftermath - A.P. Ledard Dickson

The ‘Mammen Axe’ art style is actually a late elaboration of the Jellinge style, an untrained eye would find it difficult to distinguish between them, in the Mammen Style the bodies are no longer ribbon shaped and spiral tips are more strongly emphasized, the biggest new element of this style is the extravagant use of tendril ornament as a background to the main art object. This style was so commonly found in Carolingian and Ottonian art, which was introduced into Scandinavia on imported goods.

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