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In the Norse Lore there appears paired legendary drinking horns like the Whitings and Godmund's Golden Horns from Helga þáttr Þórissonar , or within archaeology like the Golden Horns of Gallehus, or the Early Anglo-Saxon ones at The British Museum, or these pictured Sutton Hoo horns. This raises the question of why two separate horns are needed. While the more obvious answer is that horns naturally come in pairs off the heads of bovines so why not keep them paired, yet more pragmatically unless you're double fisting it then you only need one at any given moment of drinking for your single mouth. My previous reading of Georges Dumézil gives us the rather well-fitting theory that Freyr's servants Byggvir & Beyla are poetically named for Barley & Bee , both associated with Freyr's agricultural harvest of plenty. Within The Pre-Christian Religions of the North V.3 (ch54, p1410, Lindow & Schjødt), we're presented with a picture of a pair of preserved drinki...

Now the Gods can be with you wherever you roll, plus save your ride's interior with their protective presence on a custom sunshade: This photo doesn't really do this sweet D'Aulaires double truck illustration from their famous book justice, but I had to show it in the NorsePlay-mobile 's front window to demonstrate how a practical item can represent. While I'm going to have to use the reverse reflective surface for the next few months of Arizona summer, when fall hits this is the side that'll get displayed. #     #    # 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 t hen 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 e mployment/ opportunities in...

Then while reading this series of books for a year, buried in a footnote on p1182 of The Pre-Christian Religions of the North V.3 , a passing reference happens to one-eyed Gaius Julius Civilis (25 CE – c. 1st Century) as potentially being the ancient figure that Odin's one-eyed-ness is based upon! Pulling back to look at how maybe this happens, as we see the chariots roll out of the Indo-European steppes and the migration moves over time & distance from Germany to Scandinavia to the UK to Iceland, the original stories gather details from histories, other mythic traditions, and creative retellings ( NorsePlay , anyone?), so this idea that the Gods are a displaced multi-particulate apotheosis or an agglomeration of aspects from ancient figures/locales/traditions is a possibility. Enter Civilis, Prince of the Batavi, rebel leader in Germania Inferior against the Romans in 69 CE, a notable one-eyed royal warrior who makes a stand and very Odinically celebrates defiant heroism by sa...

Like a global empire, Sunna never sets on NorsePlay . This week NorsePlay has surpassed 100K+ views! [and I know for a fact that readers have visited my blog from Iceland & Greenland, and I'm not sure why the global count tracker didn't see those, so, like the Vikings to Vinland, NorsePlay has definitely also crossed the Atlantic.]  I would first specifically like to thank my South American Latino-gard for an amazing reading spike of nearly 10K of those views in the past month. This obviously has alot to say about how interest in the Heathen Worldview surpasses all boundaries & constructs, and how the Norse Lore has universal appeal. Hails y  bienvenidos mi gente! Note that this 100K+ is only the view count after  the blog's move from mid-2023 , before which it had gotten 27.8K at its previous URL , so really it's more likely just over 130K. (Hey Blogger, where's my shiny wall plaque?) [in a graph, views from the URL move onwards!] And more broadly, I th...