Beric

Post 23 : Timeline : 924AD.

In the year 924 history was repeating itself, as it often does, 308 years previous in 616AD, King Ethelfrith of Northumbria had fought the Welsh Kingdoms of Powys & Gwynedd, who were trying to regain the Welsh Marches, territory the Welsh had held in the Roman occupation.

Land they had lost to the invading Saxons &…[Read more]

Post 24 : Timeline : 924AD.

Edith & I tried to keep pace with Brother Helm, as he rushed down the stone corridor towards the Brothers sleeping area, this was the second time that I had visited the Farndon Priory, a small Roman building, in bad need of repair, situated between the fern-clad hills, and only 5 miles outside my home of the walled…[Read more]

Post 25. Timeline : Mercia 924AD.

Edith was still kneeling with tears beginning to form. I said softly. ‘Give comfort to the king.’ As I approached the young prince, I thought to myself, what a useless healer I would be if I lost both patients, and perhaps, and dead one, too.

The Abbot’s bedsheets had been ripped into strips, to make bandages,…[Read more]

The North Sea, the Anglo-Saxons, & the Scandinavians.

The North Sea, compared to other seas has a shallow seabed which is framed by the east coast of Britain, and by the northern coastline of Northern Continental Europe & Scandinavia.

However, this sea was not a barrier for the ancient Germanic people, it became a movement corridor for coastal…[Read more]

Eager & Ran.

The Anglo-Saxon sea god was called Eager, the god of the deep seas, and the god of brewing, his consort was Ran, the goddess who personified the sea for the Saxons, Eager & Ran were the parents of nine daughters who personified the actions of the waves.

But what were their names in the Saxon tongue, perhaps different than their…[Read more]

Eostre & her familiar creatures :

Eostre, like Freyja, is associated with the wild boar Hildisvini, the symbolic tradition of the boar is thousands of years old, dating from the time when the animal was more prevalent in the forests of Northern Europe.

Like Hildisvini, the wild boar symbolized wealth and prosperity, like the hermit the boar…[Read more]

Eostre :

Eostre, Freyja & Frigga assimilated to understand the Anglo-Saxon spiritual mind-set, conjecture on my part, and perhaps to be taken with a pinch of salt. Eostre was the Spring goddess of Northumbria, Mercia & Wessex. Eostre was indeed the most female pagan spirit that annoyed the church of Rome.

A male oriented religion who found the…[Read more]

Speculation about Anglo-Saxon deities :

Thunor, the god of thunder and cognate to the Norse Thor, and Thunor becomes the source word for ‘Thursday’, but did Thunor have a thunderous hammer Miolnir, or a magic belt called Megingiord? In some Anglo-Saxon text it just refers to his Seax, his companion knife.

Thunor’s description was of long red…[Read more]

Speculation about Anglo-Saxon deities :

Woden, in worship, the Anglo-Saxons created Wednesday as Woden’s Day, but other than that we know very little about Woden, as we get redirected to Odin, the All-father, the high one, the god of battle and poetic inspiration.

There is something in common with Woden & Odin, their consort Frigga, so it looks…[Read more]

Speculation about Anglo-Saxon deities :

Anglo-Saxon deities are in general poorly attested, and much is inferred about the religion of the Anglo-Saxons from other recorded Germanic peoples. The written record from the period between the Anglo-Saxon settlement of the British Isles is very sparse.

Overshadowed by the Christian records such as…[Read more]

The Wulfings & The Hundings.

I do believe that Solbacka is the correct place for an article about the blood feud between Odin’s Wolves & Hounds, located in the Eastern shores of the Geats.

The Wulgingas was a powerful wolf clan mentioned in the epic poem of Beowulf, in the Widsith & the Nordic Sagas recorded in Iceland. When the Hundings entered…[Read more]

‘Olen niin janoinen, etta tarvitsen drinkin’. I must confess that I know very little about your wonderful country other than your folk-tales contain Gothic elements and at times explicit details, all I really know is the Teemu Pukki plays football for my local time. But it appears that in this North Star Tavern that no-one would ever go hungry or thirsty.

Kingdom of the East Saxons :

The Kingdom of Essex was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons, it was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Hampshire, Middlesex, and for a short period Kent.

The East Saxons territory included the remains of two provincial Roman capitals of…[Read more]

The Jutes :

During the period after the Roman occupation and before the Norman conquest, people of the Germanic descent arrived in Britain, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides more of an invitation than an invasion, however, this explanation is what historians regard as, the foundation legends for the Anglo-Saxon settlement of what would become…[Read more]

The Saxons :

The Saxons were a group of early Germanic people whose name was recorded in the early Middle Ages to a large country called Old Saxony, near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany, in the late periods of the Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to the Germanic coastal raiders, a word akin to that of the Nordic Vikings.

The…[Read more]

London 600AD.

By this time the East & Middle Saxons were well established in the London area, finding good arable land in their respective kingdoms now established as Essex or Middlesex, or the Eastern Seax and the Middles Seax.

Ethelbert’s nephew Saeberht was in charge of London at this time, in the reign of Saeberht he had witnessed…[Read more]

London in the 4th Century:

The 4th century was marked by escalating raids by the Picts & the Scots on the Roman capital, in 367 – 368AD, there was a massive combined attack on London by an alliance of the Picts, Scots & the Saxons, this alliance ransacked London and the Thames Valley.

Ships left Rome in great numbers to recapture the Roman…[Read more]

Angeln :

The Angles were one of the main Germanic people, who settles in Great Britain, because of the rising seas surrounding their Danish peninsula, because of trade with the British Isle and the Roman occupation, rumors of fertile farmland spread overseas.

The etymology behind the name Angle is derived from their geographical position ‘the…[Read more]