The Flemish and Dutch have an old tradition, when the winter arrives, the dead return. We put a candle by the window so they know they are welcome. I use this Joelkandelaar, when the licht is welcomed back at Bikkebrenne with the arrival of spring, I blow it out. I leave the candle in it all summer. Sunne embellishes the candle with the power of…Read More

A fun way of living heathenry is to leave visible markers on sacred places. Ofcourse we do this with all respects for the local circumstances. No damaging, no polluting. Such signs will bring awareness to people, show heathenry is alive and other heathens may be inspired or may want to find out why that place is marked or who is doing it. Sparking…Read More

Yeah, why don’t we make a forum thread here for that?

So this could probably be it’s own thread, but I feel like we could totally talk more, as a group, about the significance of wells and depositional offerings

That may indeed be related! Does look like a preference for white stones.

So, it’s not exactly the same thing described here, but it might be related. Here’s a reference to a white stone or pebble having been ritually deposited into well in the Netherlands

https://collectie.huisvanhilde.nl/pdf/Pre-Christian-gods-and-animal%20symbolism-Van-Eerden-Nicolay.pdf

I just harvested some wild-growing grass grains and bound them with a grass stem cord. It’s not exactly the same as a bound sheaf of cereal grains, but I think it still works symbolically.
Glæd Bendfeorm!!

Scyld, Sceaf, and Beowa in Anglo-Saxon and Danish Tradition

This comparison outlines the roles of Scyld, Sceaf, and Beowa across early sources, with interpretive notes highlighting their mythic functions and relevance for veneration—especially within a harvest rite like Bendfeorm.

🛶 Sceaf: The Culture-Bringer

• Source: Anglo-Saxon C…

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The Bendfeorm: Structure of an Anglo-Saxon Harvest Feast

Hosts and Providers of the Bendfeorm

In Anglo-Saxon England, the Bendfeorm (also spelled bén-feorm) was a communal harvest feast held at the end of reaping (the “binding” of grain sheaves). It was typically hosted by the lord of the manor as one of the great customary feasts he was expe…Read More

This is a thread to capture our lore-gathering efforts for Bendfeorm.

https://historyofeconomicthought.mcmaster.ca/hone/manor.pdf

This is a source that addresses Bendfeorm (corrupted to Benfoeorm) in a post-medieval document. I will add other relevant sources below, and other can do so too.

Jorre,

Your picture was too big. an you scale it down?

We have a few ‘white stones’ here too. None of them I believe are fallus shaped but this here in particular is named ‘Witte Steen’ and through folklore they connect to Wodan. This one has cup marks, also a common feature in many sacred stones

This is from a Baltic ceremony, but is interesting nevertheless.

Gerd is in this picture 😉 Can you spot her?

In Baltic languages this site, or the idols can referred to as “alkas” or “elks.” These words are directly cognate with Old English “ealh” which is glossed by Aldheim as a pagan temple.

Before I forget,

“In Hákonar saga góða, Snorri Sturluson describes hlautteinar (“sacrificial twigs”) being used like sprinklers to spread blood over the stallar (“altars” or “platforms”)…”

In OE we can say “hlot-tān” or “hlot-tānas” PL

Here is a great paper, that discusses Anglo-Saxon Heathen terminology in context of sacrifice and rituals.

Snorri on blót:

In Hákonar saga góða, Snorri Sturluson describes hlautteinar (“sacrificial twigs”) being used like sprinklers to spread blood over the stallar (“altars” or “platforms”), the walls of the hof (both inside and outside) and the people who were present there. It is possible that this description was influenced by the ecc…Read More

Ibn Fadlān and the Rūsiyyah – James E. Montgomery Translation

When) he reaches the large figure, he prostrates himself before it and says, “Lord, I have come from a distant land, bringing so many slave-girls (priced at) such and such per head and so many sables (priced at) such and such per pelt.”29 He continues until he has mentioned all of th…Read More

SIGRDRIFUMOL

Sigdrifa raises a horn to wights and Gods.

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe25.htm

So we have some good clues, spread all throughout various sources, about Gield and how it worked. Some folks say “we know so little!” But that is because they searched for the word “blot” and then didn’t do due diligence. I want to capture the various attestations we know about, that show Gield in different contexts.

Saxo. Chapter 39 paragraph…Read More

I wanted to start this thread, to capture research and discussion around these white stones, and how we might incorporate this into our current ritual technology.

https://www.brutenorse.com/blog/2018/3/5/sacred-white-stones-objects-of-an-ancient-scandinavian-fertility-cult