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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 6 - March/April 2004

Tiller Talk - Editorial - Rurik Grimnisson

Greetings reader, the months slip bye as my exploration into the Underworld inures me to the sense of time. No, haven’t been spelunking rather a metaphysical journey through research and writing. Of course such journeys initiate meditation, contemplation, lucid dreaming and flashes of intuition. The ásmegir (‘Children of Odin’), those joyful inhabitants of Mimir’s Grove, are very enthusiastic wights who delight in whispering Rûna to those who make the effort to seek out the ancestral realm.

The Ravens Caw - Editorial - Dirk Schmitt

Blotar, the sacred rites of our ancient Folkway are sometimes a bone of contention amongst our peoples due to the fractured nature of the remaining lore available to us. It’s amusing in some ways that people seem to have this concept that amongst all the disparate tribes, over thousands of years, a singular form of practice and worship would have taken place. This strange notion is, I know for a fact, less of a fact, and more of an impression, but to hear some speak and write, you’d be hard pressed to consider their position on the matter to be anything but.

Lithend - Serial Story - Henry Lauer

The expanse spread well beyond the anemic torch light, occasional sparks hinting at untold secrets out in the fallow darkness. Legends of dragon hoards invariably detail vast volumes of riches – but even the most chronic teller of tales would have underestimated the grotesque volume of the slain beast’s stagnant wealth. As a man, the four swordsmen fell to their knees, threading their gauntleted hands through the treasures before them. As for Aela, she merely shrunk back, cold, sickened by the stench the dragon had imparted to the the massive fortunes, and contemptuous of the greed of these men, who had slaughtered the insatiable beast because they were no better than it. Tucking her hands under her arms in a futile attempt to resist the chill of the cavern, she turned and dragged her heavy feet back out into the cloud-stained air.

Tyrvalds Collected Mead Recipes

Cyser

On the Einherjar - Article - Dirk Schmitt

With the months of March and April upon us, thoughts now turn to the notion of the day of Rememberance which is probably of most significance to we Australians, that of ANZAC Day. ANZAC Day has grown from a day purely dedicated to the ANZAC troops and their deeds in World War I, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, to a day which honours all Veterans, and we remember the deeds of those who returned not.

AET Social Gatherings

The AET is keen to do more than simply be an ephemeral presence, seen only on the Internet, and through the Irminsul Newsletter and Journal. We consider it a vital part of the quickening of our ancestral Troth to engage each other on a personal basis in Social Gatherings. Currently the AET holds a monthly Social Gathering in the Sydney region on the first Sunday of each month, rotating locations around the city to enable as many people as possible the opportunity to participate in face to face, social interaction.

AET Word Hoard

from Zoëga's "A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic" "signa (að, or -da, -dr), v. (1) in a heathen sense, to mark with the sign of Thor's hammer, to dedicate, to a god (s. full Óðni, Þór); (2) to sign with the cross, make the sign of the cross over (gengu þeir undir borð ok signdu mat sinn); s. sik, to cross oneself (on the forehead and breast); (3) to bless; signaðr Ólafr, the blessed O."

Signs - Extract from 'Culture of the Teutons' - Gonbech

Possibly the consecration took place with solemn gestures. There were such things as signs made in the air, if we may believe the somewhat doubtful legend of Hakon Aethelstansfostri, who made the sign of the cross over the blot-meat before tasting it, and was excused by earl Sigurd, who declared it was the sign of Thor's hammer; the remarkable fact that peasants should need any explanation of a good heathen gesture does not perhaps altogether exclude the possibility that the story may have had some slight warranty in reality.

Einar's Saga - Historical Fiction Serial - Rurik Grimnisson

Nearing the garth gate, Einar yelled for Astrid to come and slip the rails for him. She grabbed the reins from his offered hand as he kicked his feet out of the stirrups, swung his leg over the wheezing pony's head and landed flat-footed on the turf, grunting with the jolt.

Music to Warm the Folksoul - Music Review - Dirk Schmitt

Hedningarna

Three Book Reviews - Henry Lauer

R.I. Page, Chronicles of the Vikings: British Museum Press, London, 1995.

Egil's Saga, tr. H. Palsson and P. Edwards: Penguin, 1976.

Eyrbyggja Saga, tr. H. Palsson and P. Edwards:Penguin, 1989.

AET Events Calendar

The Earls of Orkney - A.P. Lerdard-Dickson

After the death of Earl Sigurd ‘the Stout’ Hlodvirsson in the battle of Clontarf, three of his four living sons’, Sumarlidi, Brusi and Einar Sigurdarsson, divided between them the Earldom of Orkney. Thorfinn, being only 5 or 7 years old when his father was killed, lived with his grandfather, King Malcolm of Scotland, who gave him Caithness and Sutherland, granted him the title of Earl, and appointed counselors to govern with him.

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