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East Coast Thing 2010!

For twelve years now the East Coast Asatru Community has been honored to host an annual gathering. This year Vingolf Fellowship has been hard at work putting all of the nuts and bolts of the event together. Dave and I had the opportunity to talk with Joe Mandato regarding this years East Coast Thing. Registration ends on August 1st so there is still time to join us for some great community building!

go to eastcostthing.org

for registration info, list of events and classes, and camp site information!

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Hello Everyone!

After our brief hiatus we are very pleased to present this very informative interview with Lothar Tuppan regarding the Rune Guild. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Rune Gild magazine. We learned just how much we didn’t know about the Rune Guild and we’re certain you will too!

For more info on Lothar and the Rune Guild follow the links:

The Rune Guild - http://runegild.org/

Have a look at Lothar’s Blog and listen to his wonderful story “How Fare the Land Wights” - http://edred.net/community/members/14/blog.php

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Heilsa All!

Volkshof Kindred is putting on Trothmoot this year at St. Croix State Park, in Hinckley, MN from June 10th-13th 2010. And it looks like an awesome time, with lots of cool events and local talent.

Have a look at: http://www.crystalcoast.net/thetroth/FAQTrothmoot.pdf - FAQ

http://www.crystalcoast.net/thetroth/trothmoot.html - Trothmoot 2010 Main Page

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This episode may likely be our most controversial one. Patrick McCollum is a pagan Chaplin working with the Cherry Hill Seminary (http://www.cherryhillseminary.org/). He works with about 2,000 Pagan Prisoners in California and has run into a gauntlet of administrative outright discrimination. Many of those prisoners are Asatruar, who are looking for some means to worship. We pop a few prison myths about racism and whether we should act at all.

I can not think of a podcast that we have done that was not as important as this one.

We would like to thank the Pagan Spirit Gathering for helping us make this interview happen. PSG is going on June 20-27, near Salem, Missouri. Have a look at http://www.circlesanctuary.org/psg/

For more info on this have a look at the Wildhunt Blog at http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/02/patrick-mccollums-case-hits-the-mainstream.html

For what folks can do, write or call your Congressman or the authorities in California.

Jerry Brown, the California Attorney General - http://ag.ca.gov/, The Govnernator - http://gov.ca.gov/, Mathew L. Cate, the Secretary of the CDCR - http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/About_CDCR/cate.html

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Joe Marek, founder of Gladsheim Kindred in the Washington DC area, was kind enough to allow us to record his very insightful class at East Coast Thing this year. Joe’s class touches on a subject that Dave and I find very important, reputation. Not just personal but group reputation. Joe touches on key points anyone looking for a group or looking to start a group should have in mind. There is alot here that speaks to the reputation within the Asatru community and the general community at large. I’m sure you’ll find it as though provoking as we did.

enjoy!

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We have received an outstanding response to our most recent post on the Rosaring by Christine Foltzer. As such we have a little treat to share……

Christine’s class notes as a downloadable PDF. Enjoy!

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Dave and I felt that a discussion of Ullr was just the thing to liven up a chilly New England January. With that in mind we pulled from our archives a fantastic class presented by Christine Foltzer at this past summer’s East Coast Thing. The class centers around the Rosaring, an archaeological site thought to be sacred to Ullr. I know that this is a subject completely fascinating to me and I hope you do as well. Enjoy!

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This is our last podcast for 2009, dedicated to Frey and Njord for the 12th Night of Yule and mostly we just wanted to wish everyone the best of blessings for the New Year.

12.FREY’S DEATH. Frey took the kingdom after Njord, and was called drot by the Swedes, and they paid taxes to him. He was, like his father, fortunate in friends and in good seasons. Frey built a great temple at Upsal, made it his chief seat, and gave it all his taxes, his land, and goods. Then began the Upsal domains, which have remained ever since. Then began in his days the Frode- peace; and then there were good seasons, in all the land, which the Swedes ascribed to Frey, so that he was more worshipped than the other gods, as the people became much richer in his days by reason of the peace and good seasons. His wife was called Gerd, daughter of Gymis, and their son was called Fjolne. Frey was called by another name, Yngve; and this name Yngve was considered long after in his race as a name of honour, so that his descendants have since been called Ynglinger. Frey fell into a sickness; and as his illness took the upper hand, his men took the plan of letting few approach him. In the meantime they raised a great mound, in which they placed a door with three holes in it. Now when Frey died they bore him secretly into the mound, but told the Swedes he was alive; and they kept watch over him for three years. They brought all the taxes into the mound, and through the one hole they put in the gold, through the other the silver, and through the third the copper money that was paid. Peace and good seasons continued.

Yingling Saga, Heimskringla

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Heilsa All! We talk about the Return of Sunna and what we do for our main Yule night rituals.

3. “Hail, day! Hail, sons of day! And night and her daughter now! Look on us here with loving eyes, that waiting we victory win. Sigrdrifumol, 3

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Heilsa All!

We talk about Sunna and get to the core points of the Yule holiday with our 10th Yule Night podcast.

XI. Then said Gangleri: “How does he govern the course of the sun or of the moon?” Hárr answered: “A certain man was named Mundilfari, who had two children; they were so fair and comely that he called his son Moon, and his daughter Sun, and wedded her to the man called Glenr. But the gods were incensed at that insolence, and took the brother and sister, and set them up in the heavens; they caused Sun to drive those horses that drew the chariot, of the sun, which the gods had fashioned, for the world’s illumination, from that glowing stuff which flew out of Múspellheim. Those horses are called thus: Early-Wake and All-Strong; and under the shoulders of the horses the gods set two wind-bags to cool them, but in some records that is called ‘iron-coolness.’ Moon steers the course of the moon, and determines its waxing and waning. He took from the earth two children, called Bil and Hjúki, they that went from the well called Byrgir, bearing on their shoulders the cask called Sægr, and the pole Simul. Their father is named Vidfinnr. These children follow Moon, as may be seen from the earth.” XII. Then said Gangleri: “The sun fares swiftly, and almost as if she were afraid: she could not hasten her course any the more if she feared her destruction.” Then Hárr made answer: “It is no marvel that she hastens furiously: close cometh he that seeks her, and she has no escape save to run away.” Then said Gangleri: “Who is he that causes her this disquiet?” Hárr replied: “It is two wolves; and he that runs after her is called Skoll; she fears him, and he shall take her. But he that leaps before her is called Hati Hródvitnisson. He is eager to seize the moon; and so it must be.” Then said Gangleri: “What is the race of the wolves? Hárr answered: “A witch dwells to the east of Midgard, in the forest called Ironwood: in that wood dwell the troll-women, who are known as Ironwood-Women. The old witch bears many giants for sons, and all in the shape of wolves; and from this source are these wolves sprung. The saying runs thus: from this race shall come one that shall be mightiest of all, he that is named Moon-Hound; he shall be filled with the flesh of all those men that die, and he shall swallow the moon, and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the air; thereof shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side.

Prose Edda.

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