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modernamericansham
Feb 131 min read
The Four Poems/Stories You Must Read to Completely Understand Ragnarok.
The four poems/stories you must read to completely understand Ragnarok will be listed below. Like all skaldic Poems the Voluspa can be...
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modernamericansham
Feb 131 min read
Northern European Philosophy
Our web page states that Northern European traditions have the same skills and philosophies as the more popular North and South American...
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modernamericansham
Jan 291 min read
ÓÐINN, HÁVAMÁL STANZA 1:
“At every doorway, you should peer around. Take a good look inside, for you never truly know, just who is a friend, and who is a foe.” ...
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modernamericansham
Jan 41 min read
Havamal Study Project
This project will be multileveled and designed to help the person reading the Havamal delve into the simple as well as the deeper...
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modernamericansham
Nov 24, 20241 min read
Brunnhild
To start, Brunnhild is the daughter of the Norse Power Odin. She refused an order from her father, Odin so he put her into a spell the...
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modernamericansham
Oct 29, 20242 min read
Frau Holle
Frau Holle (Holda, Hulda) (Ruler of the Underworld, provides health to the flocks and fertility to women.) She is seen as a...
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modernamericansham
Sep 5, 20242 min read
Awareness, Learning, and Nature
Spending time in nature is one of the main requirements for learning Fire and Ice Shamanism. You cannot get around the need to spend time...
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modernamericansham
Sep 2, 20243 min read
Parts of the Norse Self, for 2024 class, Working With Your Inner World Tree.
Lik is the physical body and should be kept healthy and strong. The physical body is how the Elder Kin found Ask and Embla on the beach....
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modernamericansham
Sep 2, 20241 min read
German World Tree Outline for 2024 class, Working With Your Inner World Tree.
Nine Realms/Nine Worlds of Yggdrasil and Lewesbaam Yggdrasil Nine Realms: Asgard – home of the Aesir Alfheim – home of the Light Elves...
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modernamericansham
Aug 20, 20241 min read
A look at what names mean!!!
Odin and Fenrir: Odin means Spirit and Fenrir means Greed. Odin must engage in his final battle against the most dangerous quality of the...
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modernamericansham
Aug 14, 20242 min read
What is a Fylgja?
What is a fylgja? Is it like a Native American totem animal or is it something distinctly Northern European? In short conversations I...
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modernamericansham
Aug 13, 20243 min read
Freya
Freya (Her name means "The Lady”) is the Norse Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, wealth, divination and magic. She belongs to a...
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modernamericansham
Aug 13, 20241 min read
Idunn
Bragi sitting playing the harp, Iðunn standing behind him (1846) by Nils Blommér Idunn, her name means "ever young", "rejuvenator", or...
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modernamericansham
Aug 13, 20241 min read
Comfrey (AKA Comphrey)
(I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to point out that we are not doctors...
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modernamericansham
Aug 12, 20241 min read
Ground Ivy
Ground Ivy (Glechoma Hederacea) (I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to...
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modernamericansham
Jul 29, 20242 min read
TACITUS ON MALE WARRIOR UPBRINGING AND INITIATION
Copy of The Warrior of Hirschlanden (German: Krieger von Hirschlanden) Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and ethnographer who...
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modernamericansham
Jun 9, 20244 min read
Pagan Picnic 2024 Handout
German Folk Magic Healing Charms Atrophy Healing Spell: Gain in the limbs, Gain in the flesh! Gain in the veins and the blood, As certain...
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modernamericansham
May 27, 20243 min read
Odin and His Companions
Odin’s animal companions Geri, Freki, Huginn and Muninn and Sleipnir. If we look at what their names mean, we can get a better...
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modernamericansham
May 27, 20242 min read
The Different Names of Odin
Some of Odin’s names: There are over 170 different names for him so I will only offer a few here. The first two are simply different ways...
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modernamericansham
May 27, 20241 min read
The Challenge of Thor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress,...
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