The Young Vikings Website - http://www.youngvikingsclub.com/

Here are some links that we feel are of interest to Heathen Parents:

Young Vikings Club - http://www.youngvikingsclub.com/

Asatru Crafts for Kids (Yahoo) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asatru_Crafts_For_Kids/

Asa-Parents (Yahoo) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asa-Parents/

Heathen Parenting (Yahoo) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeathenParenting/

Heathen_Parenting (Yahoo) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Heathen_Parenting/

We are back from the East Coast Thing 2009 and thrilled to present to you one of the many great classes. Tanya Peterson is a member of this year’s hosting kindred, Gladsheim. She presented a class on Hospitality, that we thought was excellent and worthy of a listen. She uses the Havamal to break down modern ethics concerning how to be a good guest, a good host as well as appropriate internet and every day hospitality.

Many thanks to Tanya for letting us record her class.

This is our first videocast. And we do apologize for both the quality and timeliness of this. But it is about 45 minutes of goodness telling the saga of what it took to create a place for our honored dead. It was recorded at the International Asatru Summer Camp July 2009.

The description from the pre-event newsletter, “Solvej Vikkelsø will be talking about creating a heathen burial ground. Solvej is a member of Danish Forn Siðr and the one who has all the photos, plans, architect drawings and others things in digital form of the burial place of Forn Siðr in Odense - Søren Fisker and Solvej Vikkelsø are the ones who did all the planning and work up to and including the actual making of the stone-ship (skibssætning). In other words, Solvej knows exactly what she is talking about when she tells you what it took for Forn Siðr to have their own heathen burial ground.”

Rest assured, we will be podcasting more goodies from IASC.

But not too soon as the end of August is time for the East Coast Allthing! Hope to see you there and we will bring back more good stuff from that event as well.

With the help and assistance of Joe Mandato, we talk about Tyr and Dave’s relationship with him. We discuss how Dave became a patron of Tyr, his tips on bettering your relationship to him and a lawyer’s jaded view about justice.

Next Month: Hela with Sandi

Pagan Spirit Gathering : http://www.circlesanctuary.org/psg/

Lunacy (the musical group Bruner is a member of) unfortunately does not have a website up and running as yet but we’ll keep you posted when we hear more about the CD launch.

link list to Lore and brewing info:

Orkneyinga Saga

Lokesenna

Hymiskvitha

http://www.gotmead.com/

The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm

We got the chance to speak with Tanya Peterson. Tanya is helping to run Trothmoot 2009 among other various events she is involved in. Feel free to stop by the Trothmoot website for news and updates regarding the event. Tanya also mentions Vanirfest so stop by Eplagarthr Kindred’s website and check that out as well!

Remember we are always happy to help promote any Asatru event. So drop us a line if you are hosting an event you’d like to share with our audience.

This is meant to be shared so send it around to anyone you think it might benefit. Just make sure it’s kept whole and that F.P. Molina and Ravencast are credited.

In Frith, Sandi

Oh, and for those who are paying attention - (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/)

Rated PG-13 for Strong Moiling and other Yidishisms. You have been warned.

Background Music by Panacea, Songs and Dance Music of Europe East and West, Zemer Atik with the permission of Magnatune.

This is just a small note about where things are and where they are going. We are over 100,000 listens. Thank you for your interest. We wouldn’t be here without you.

We just uploaded a transcript yesterday of the 2nd Episode, due to the awesome efforts of F.P. Molina. We are going to have a few more ‘casts on individual relationships with the Gods. After that we are pretty much up for anything. Please feel free to chime in as to what we should do for our next series of podcasts.

Feel free to comment at the website at ravencast.podbean.com or via email at dscarron at yahoo.com.

Wes Thu Hal David Carron

F.P. Molina has gone above and beyond by deciding that our work should be transcribed and has put in the incredible time and effort to do so.

So, for your reading pleasure a transcript of Episode 2. Feel free to send this about anywhere and everywhere, whole and attributing us and F.P. Molina.

Wes Thu Hal David Carron

We also plug our fellow Heathen ‘casters:

paganspiritualitytoday.podbean.com thetroth.podbean.com runestone.org/video/index.html Vinterulf on Youtube

A few other links of note:

Our article in AREN - http://www.aren.org/newsletter/2008-yule/index.php

East Coast Thing 11 - http://www.eastcoastthing.org/

some additional translations are at:

http://www.northvegr.org/lore/rydberg/097.php http://www.northvegr.org/lore/poetic/014a.php

See you next month and Merry Yule!!!!

Winternights ~

Article by Stormerne and Arlea Hunt-Anschütz

The Saga of Hakon the Good

Einjarhar ~

general Wiki

Yule/Wild Hunt ~

Wild Hunt Wiki

Folklore of the Wild Hunt and the Furious Host

Wild Hunt Animation

… oh and the TYR song “Hail to the Hammer” Dave mentioned …

We hope you found this as well researched, presented, and as much fun as we did.

Enjoy!

See you at the Thing!

Mike is the Jarl of the New Hampshire based Ulfar aff Jera Thoed. He also has a series of videos entitled What is Asatru? Mike is also the New Hampshire folkbuilder for the Asatru Folk Assembly. He also has a fair number of writings in various magazines and on the Ulfar website.

Next Month: We are starting a new thread of interviews and talking about magic. Starting with the runes with Mike Smith.

We also plug some pagan podcasters, Deo’s Shadow (www.deos-shadow.com) and Mid-Michigan Pagan Podcast (http://midmichiganpaganpodcast.podcastpeople.com). Those Mid-Michigan folks kindly interviewed us (for a change) in a two part series, Episodes 17 and 18. Deo has a snappy interview with Dr. Brendan Myers about pagan Ethics (#39).

Please let us know if you are interested in running classes or vending at ECT, as we would like talk to you for a special podcast.

This is basically a podcast about the application of research. (By request we did more about the Gods.) We pop open our Poetic Edda and Prose Edda and pull a few things out. We hope that folk see the process and are inspired to do some homework themselves.

Feel free to send us ideas for other Asatru 101 podcasts.

Please feel free to send this around.

For all those podcasters out there, you can drop a comment here and we’ll check you out for cross promotion.

The Eldaring website (and in English)

Ingmar also mentioned a site for many Northern European contacts.

Some Lore links about Yule: http://home.earthlink.net/~wodensharrow/yule.html http://www.simnet.is/gardarj/yule2.htm

This year at Yule we focus on the modern celebration of Yule and practices. We do a quick interview with Rick Oberg about his private practice with his family at Yule. I read a fun little poem called the Yule Cat. Sandi and I “discuss” whether Santa’s roots come from Odin or Thor.

Very Merry Yule Everyone!

For more information about the IG have a look at the web page at http://www.irminenschaft.net/

Next Month: Yule!

Asatru is a religion first and foremost but there is a place for magical practices that are outgrowths from the Lore. We talk about what that means and give a very, very quick gloss on the common magical practices.

Please send us ideas for other Asatru 101 podcasts.

Next week we will have out our last National Asatru Organization podcast.

Next Month: The Irminen-Gesellschaft

Many, many translations can be found at Northvegr Foundation Website. Please feel free to plug away, if you like our stuff. Every comment or vote that you leave helps us get out there and is much appreciated.

We greatly appreciate every comment that we receive whether positive or critical. However, we will not approve any comment or respond to any email that attempts to debate the merit of Asatru as a religion. The discussion of Asatru is the entirety of this podcast.

We do not appreciate comments left that attempt to be divisive or in anyway stifle the constructive comments left by others.

We state this, not to limit discussion, but to clarify our thought process. Especially, since in the many months that we have been doing this a grand total of one comment we found inappropriate.

Next Month: the Asatru Alliance

For more information about the The Troth check out http://www.thetroth.org. For those interested in finding local Stewards you can go directly to the Troth Steward Locator page. You can also contact The Troth at troth-contact@thetroth.org.

Next Month: The Odinic Rite

Please remember to follow the links under Podcast Directories. Every comment or vote that you leave helps us get noticed and is much appreciated.

For more information about the AFA check out runestone.org. You can also contact Stephen directly at AFA@runestone.org.

To have a look at what is going on in Washington DC for the Pagan rally on July 4 go to paganreligiousrights.org.

Next month: The Troth

We hope this provides inspiration and structure for folks to do their own Asatru rituals.

Midsummer~ A solid description of Midsummer celebrations and practices Midsummer Wiki Troth description of Midsummer a Midsummer description from the Odin’s Volk Site

Sunna~ Sunna Wiki a concise description of Sunna

Baldur~ Baldur Wiki Baldur’s Myth a concise description of Baldur

Tyr~ Tyr Wiki a concise description of Tyr

a great page for general info on the gods and godesses

Kubb!~ Kubb Wiki Old Time Games Kubb Game

Next month: Midsummer!

We know we came away from this episode with new insights, not just about Loki but about how to research responsibly. It’s with this in mind that we would like to send out seperate Asatru Basics episodes on this feed. So send us your questions . . . we promise to answer them.

In addition we plug our other podcast Spoken Lore. We also thank Odin Lives Radio, for having us on for a guest appearance.

Some of the topics discussed were Asatru community, the nine noble virtues, the idea of Asatru becoming mainstream. The poetic Edda and the Sagas of the Icelanders

We’ve also added some new links under New To Asatru. As the heading implies these are great links to basic information for those just starting.

We pulled information from three specific sagas ~ Grimnismal Reginsmal Olaf’s Saga

We had great fun interviewing Bill Dwinnells about Ethics in this episode. The main discussion is about the reasons for appropriate action by an Asatruar.

Please pay no attention to your sickly hosts

In this Episode The Havamal from the Poetic Edda is used several times as a reference so check it out!

related Links :

the Lay of Alvis ~ http://www.angelfire.com/wy/wyrd/alvissmal.html

Sunna ~ http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ewodensharrow/grimnismal.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_%28goddess%29 Dave retold this story ~ http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/huntsman.html

next month - YULE!

www.myspace.com/totemmusicusa www.ravennorth.org

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Thanks to Jeff Wells for the great music!