Swedish: May heaven and earth make me glorious
May Lord Ingui and the wise sage god Woden make me glorious
May I attain the glory of divine light
May this great glory never abandon me
May it never abandon my people, among whom let me be a speaker of truth
Hello friends my name is Arith Härger and today I'm going to talk about Freyfaxi, now I know that I've already
talked about Freyfaxi in the previous video and I leave a link down
below in the description so you might watch it but there was more I wanted to
tell you about this northern European pagan tradition and since I didn't want
to extend the previous video so much well I'm making this video solely to
talk about free Freyfaxi, today I'm going to give you a more academical approach to
this celebration by giving you a couple of examples of the Cult of Freyr so
you might understand that to our Norse ancestors the god of Agriculture and
fertility was one of the most important most worshiped and beloved deities
in the Norse pantheon so let's get started
every religion is always changing and
no matter how hard we try to follow the footsteps of our ancestors we will never
fully understand the essence of their spiritual beliefs and it's very common
to see that every religion and it doesn't matter if it's polytheistic or
monotheistic but every religion has its spiritual branches and this also happens
with the northern European pagan traditions there are some who prefer
just to worship the Aesir others only the Vanir and of course there are those
who worship the gods of the underworld and the deities with a more primal concept
and obviously there are those who just want to worship one deity and
focus on that one archetype
suffice it to say that for most neo-pagans who practice the northern european pagan traditions they prefer to
worship just Odin or perhaps just Thór or the both of them it seems that these
two deities are very famous amongst neo-pagans and everything else in this
spiritual tradition seems of no importance however for our ancestors it
was obviously different the majority of the populace they were farmers herders
fishermen so they would prefer to worship deities connected with fertility
deities who gave them plenty rather than deities connected with death sacrifice
and war and talking about that the God Odin for instance he is a God
connected with war sacrifice and death rather than wisdom and magic as we
commonly think today so the Cult of Odin was a very restricted one and only for
certain elite of the society but about the Cult of Odin for another video with
this being said I will move on to the real subject of this video
to our Norse/Germanic ancestors one of the most worship deities was the god Freyr
a God worshiped since the Iron Age or perhaps even further back all the way to
the Middle Ages , Fricco or Freyr - a name which appears to be identical with the
Teutonic word represented in Old English as " frea" meaning King or Lord
the god Freyr was mostly worshipped at Uppsala - Sweden - but there are some historians and
archaeologists that have stated that a certain image of Freyr existed and it
was used for worshipping in Thrandheim - Norway - and it was carried there from
Sweden, there are certain stories that mentioned this very image being carried
around the country and to which people offered sacrifices so I cannot say it
was a common practice but it indeed existed this ritual this sort of
ceremony carrying an image around and people making offerings to it more or
less like in the Christian tradition for instance
when people carry the image of Christ or the Virgin Mary or some saint in a
procession and we have Tacitus a roman senator a politician of the roman empire
and a historian of some sorts he mentions a certain cult with these
similarities in ihs "Germania" an image of a goddess being carried in a cart and
taken into a forest into a sacred grove and sacrifices being offered to this
goddess in her honor mostly human sacrifices well in this case just human
sacrifices people being immolated
ghastly
o f course there were many sacrifices to the God Freyr but mostly animal sacrifices for instance there is
an account of black oxen being sacrificed to the god Freyr by the
mythical hero Hading and these sacrifices were often called Frodblod or Frodblót
by the Swedes meaning "Freyr's sacrifices" and there are frequent
occurrences of the name Freyr being included in Swedish and Danish place
names which indicates the prevalence of the Cult of Freyr in both of those countries
worshiping the God Freyr was very popular in Sweden and as I've said
in this video and I have given you a couple of examples it became a common
practice in certain places in Norway and from there it was carried into Iceland
by the first settlers and these settlers being the Norwegian aristocracy fleeing
from Norway because of religious and political persecution
as late as the 10th century there are historical accounts that represent the people of
Thrandheim as refusing to break their image of the God Freyr under King Olaf Tyggvason's orders
and this was a time when Christianity was already spreading
throughout Norway and the people of Thrandheim refused this kingly command
because they had long served this deity and the deity had done good to them
and there are folk accounts from the people of Thrandheim and that state that
this deity talked with them and show them things to come and gave them
peace and prosperity and it was customary in the great festivals to
drink in honor to God Freyr to secure this peace this prosperity - plenty
and I'm remembering now there is another account of a piece of jewelry - a talisman
in which an image of Freyr was marked in silver and it's it's mentioned
as having been owned by one of the petty kings of Norway and more or less in the
ninth century if memory doesn't fail me and this was given by King Harald to Ingimund
so as you can see there are historical accounts and archaeological
evidences that shows us the importance the god Freyr had to our Norse
ancestors and how popular he was in Sweden and some parts of Norway and even
in Iceland the traces of a popular Cult of Freyr are very clear and more than
one prominent person mentions this cult in the sagas for instance one saga one
account from Thorgrim - Brother-in-law of Gisli Sursson - in this saga it is
mentioned that Thorgrim, himself wanted to make a festival at the beginning of
winter to greet winter in honor to the God Freyr making another sacrifice to
the god Freyr now from this saga and from other sagas
and other accounts I've picked parts and I've summarized them a lot so I could
tell you and show you once again how popular the cult of Freyr was in ancient
Scandinavia and even in for these people who were polytheistic many
in these societies worshiped just one deity and that one dated being Freyr
so if you don't mind I will tell you some some more accounts and other sagas very
much summarized and well let's just do it . . .
when Thorgrim was murdered and had
been laid in a grave mound it was noticed that the snow never lay on the
south or west sides of the mound and the ground never froze there it was supposed
that Thorgrim was so highly esteemed by the god Freyr himself for the offerings
he made to him that the god did not wish Thorgrim's mound to freeze
great attachment to this deity also appears in the story of Hrafnkel which I've mentioned in
the previous video who loved no other god more than Freyr and gave the deity o
his most valuable possessions
among the offerings was a horse (Hrafnkel's own horse)
which on that account bore the name of Freyfaxi,
another Freyfaxi belonged to Brand in Vatnsdal and most people believed that he had
a religious reverence for the horse
horses owned by Freyr are also mentioned as
existing in Thrandheim in the days of Olaf Tryggvason by the end of the
10th century so Freyfaxi became the well-known name for the cult of Freyr
and the celebration to him during August
alright friends I hope you have enjoyed
this video all the links to my social media are down below at the description
thank you so much for watching see you on the next video and as always
tack för idag! (thank you for today!)
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