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Inclusive Heathen podcast containing a healthy dose of geekery, a fair bit of cake and a hint of queer, by Suzanne Martin, the Gytha in Jeans, and a Coffee-Powered Druid called Kate Coldwind. Welcome around the virtual campfire!
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Thursday Jun 15, 2017
Thursday Jun 15, 2017
Episode 12: Landspirits
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Permission to boop!” - ‘sharp tooth paddle doggo’ meme
“Roaming the valleys...” Blackadder, series 3 ‘Amy and Amiability’
The Muppet Show Theme – from the Muppet Show 1976-1981
A trip round whales and Wales
Kate bangs her elbow
Landspirits and animism
Saga of Olaf Tryggvasson – the four major landspirits of Iceland are a dragon, an eagle, a bull and a giant. These are now on the national Icelandic coins and the Icelandic coat of arms. https://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/state-symbols/icelandic-coat-of-arms/history/
Ibn Fadlan sees the Rus leaving offerings out for landspirits, which dogs eat.
Egil’s Saga contains an account of a cursing pole being set up to scare landspirits away - Egil's Saga, Penguin Classics, 1976, ISBN 0-14-044321-5, p. 148
Spirits of place, and house.
Nice table
Genii Loci – the Roman spirits of place
Modern spirits – spirits of glass, concrete and electricity (Kate’s phone beeps: the spirit of electricity makes itself known...)
The dragon prow: One version of the Icelandic Book of Settlement says that the ancient law of Iceland forbade having a dragon-prow in place on one's ship in harbor or coming in to land "with gaping mouth or yawning snout," because the landvættir would be frightened away - (Ulfljót's Law)
Keflavik air base, and the Icelandic foreman’s dreams of landspirits. - KveldulfR Hagan Gundarsson, Elves, Wights, and Trolls, Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry vol. 1, New York: iUniverse, 2007, ISBN 0-595-42165-2, p. 18.
A prayer/dedication to the landspirits
Offerings for the landspirits
How to find us online
Bonus material:
Why exactly is Kate waving?
‘Thirteen! Thirteen!’ From the TV series Rome, Season 1, episode 11 ‘The Spoils’.
What legion was the 13th?
The ninth legion in Damnatio
‘defeated in detail’ - a legion and an industrial shredder
“To the trees!” - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (1991)
The Ents get in the way – Ents from Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Suzanne and Kate recount The Battle of Teuteberg...
“The line must be drawn here! This far and no further!” - Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
...and sing Desumiis Luge very badly… (Desumiis Luge, from the album Arcane Dominion I by Eluveite) caution: these lyrics are based on a Roman curse tablet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamali%C3%A8res_tablet
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