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by Wodenborn
Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:04 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Quick Intros
Replies: 31
Views: 37293

Re: Quick Intros

I'll skip the Anglo-Saxon and just say Hello :D
by Wodenborn
Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:57 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Anyone else do Crafting / living history or did ?
Replies: 2
Views: 6691

Re: Anyone else do Crafting / living history or did ?

if nothing else it's an excuse for running around with a sword, getting muddy and tired out....then getting drunk afterwards

usually decent people - one or two exceptions as always
pretty good weekend if you ask me
by Wodenborn
Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:50 am
Forum: Lore
Topic: Taking the Lore literally?
Replies: 27
Views: 31271

Re: Taking the Lore literally?

I used the ready to hand Saxon Age by AJF Scott

However many of the laws are online at :
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/560-975dooms.asp

or if reading Anglo-Saxon is your forte
http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/ ... html#cap42
by Wodenborn
Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:23 am
Forum: Lore
Topic: Taking the Lore literally?
Replies: 27
Views: 31271

Re: Taking the Lore literally?

And from the Laws of Cnut 1020-1023 5. And we earnestly forbid every heathen practice. 5.1. It is heathen practice if one worships idols, namely if one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon, fire or flood, wells or stones or any kind of forest trees, or if one practises witchcraft or encompa...
by Wodenborn
Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:18 am
Forum: Lore
Topic: Taking the Lore literally?
Replies: 27
Views: 31271

Re: Taking the Lore literally?

picking up from earlier and laws - this will run if people are interested.. In 597 Augustine arrived in Kent, converted Aethelberht (whose Frankish wife Bertha had undoubtedly insisted that the Christian mission come to England, and indeed it was the wish of his father in law Chariberht many many au...
by Wodenborn
Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:11 pm
Forum: Interfaith
Topic: Neo-paganism
Replies: 7
Views: 11123

Re: Neo-paganism

we are on the path to fluffy bunnies again aren't we Neo-paganism seems to be whatever anyone wants..take the name of a god - or it seems preferably a goddess, dress in Black, white or whatever coloured robe you want, wave a magical wand (bought for £9.99 at the local wand store) and use a magical G...
by Wodenborn
Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:57 pm
Forum: News and Current Events
Topic: First Americans might've been Europeans
Replies: 5
Views: 17313

Re: First Americans might've been Europeans

oooh oooh oooh Solutrean hypothesis The Solutrean hypothesis of Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley suggest that the Clovis point derived from the points of the Solutrean culture of southern France (19,000 BP) through the Cactus Hill points of Virginia (16,000 BP) to the Clovis point. The Hypothesis o...
by Wodenborn
Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:48 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Opps! I ont belong here!
Replies: 3
Views: 3957

Re: Opps! I ont belong here!

what an absolutely and utterly bizarre post
not my type of Heathen discussion board.
one has to wonder, if this does not encompass what they think of a heathen board - exactly what is their type of Heathen discussion board

Fluffatru or Nazitru perhaps

fluffy bunnies anyone ???
by Wodenborn
Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:56 am
Forum: Lore
Topic: Egil's Saga: his younger days
Replies: 2
Views: 6902

Re: Egil's Saga: his younger days

with the symptoms that he displayed, together with the description of his physical stature and physionomy it is a virtual certainty that he suffered from Pagets disease. see: http://www.viking.ucla.edu/Scientific_American/Egils_Bones.htm living in a warlike society where violence was institutional a...
by Wodenborn
Fri Jun 21, 2013 6:55 am
Forum: Hwæt!
Topic: Loki/Hel/Angrboda/Fenris/etc; America VS Europe
Replies: 1
Views: 2911

Re: Loki/Hel/Angrboda/Fenris/etc; America VS Europe

that's quite an interesting question actually I always remember to tip the wink and acknowledge Loki - he's a useful chap to have around - and I'd certainly want him pissing out of the tent with me rather than pissing into the tent at me Loki knows many things, and is seemingly uncannily good at fin...