all hail Buddy Guillermosson!

 

NorsePlay has previously posted illustrations & photos of Viking Era grave reconstructions and about my awesome American Bully, Buddy Guillermosson. Buddy passed away this week, and much like the Viking Era arrangements of grave goods, I've decided to honor his life by including items with him for use in the afterworlds. As pictured above, I've included nine bully sticks, which were his favourite chews, his treat ball & bone, a stack of cheddar cheese slices, a huge greasy cow's knucklebone, a small Viking ship, and two finely carved & painted Swedish Dala horses.

When representations or miniatures are interred or cremated, these items are thought to manifest full size in the afterworlds, and their bearer can use or barter them as needed. Horses in burials are huge prestige items, usually reserved for rulers or warriors of great stature.

Once he's cremated, given my intentional funerary arrangement, Buddy Guillermosson will very likely show up to his destination riding a Karve ship along one of the Élivágar rivers with a Swedish Ardennes horse on one side of him & a Gotland Pony on the other, which I suspect no other dog in the history of Arch-Heathenry into Modern/Post-Reconstructionism has ever arrived with! Buddy's life was a grand one, and all this will make his afterlife even better. I look forward to walking with him again in the afterworlds. All hail Buddy Guillermosson!

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Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.