Forseti - The Frisian Law Speaker

[@teresafigueiredo]

I admire you for presenting so many themes with quality and in fact with content. Thanks

[@Greentrianglegallery]

So happy I have something to watch tonight…I will set aside my work and rest and sit and listen…..thank you Arith I do hope you are well 💖

[@ArithHärger]

All is well, and you my friend? Hope you enjoy this one too ^^

[@Greentrianglegallery]

@@ArithHärger oooohhh I’m sooo good, thankyou for asking….I love hearing from you that you are ok…. I value your work so much ….and seeing everything you have created for us is a highlight in my week….so much passion and love for your work 💗

[@smcwr]

Thank you thank you thank you. I have NEEDED a video on him. I have begun asking people to make one and was wanting to ask you.

[@MrEnaric]

O yes! Can't wait to watch this as soon as my kids allow! Information is scarce and most theories date from the 19th century. As I understood Forseti is a uniquely Frisian deity from the early middle ages. I just want to pass on facts to my sons to help them understand where they come from, whatever the story of Forseti happens to be. Tige tank foar dyn kar foar Forseti!

[@krynbero1107]

Hailaz Frisii

[@ernamoller175]

Thank you Arith!

[@yochanan770]

I just learned about Forseti this year. I've not been able to uncover a lot about him and I'm so thankful thatvyoubwere able to pit this together. As an Ostfriesian descendant, this subject is rather close to my heart.

[@ArithHärger]

In case you uncover more information please do share :D it will be important for many of us around here ^^ best of luck!

[@kirailove4207]

Fantastic video!

[@stewartthomas2642]

100 points........Love your stuff kick on love it

[@denyse6666]

very interesting Snorri has a lot to answer for :).... strange to see you in your new home , hope you are doing well and that the cats are happy and well .......

[@KarlKarsnark]

I love that the President of Iceland is still called "Forseti". More EPIC, old timey titles, I say! Cheers from FL, USA.

[@carlosfigueiredofigueiredo9612]

Muito bom. 👌

[@SorBzIRo]

tenkte litt på nyttårs forsett som man legger til seg for å forandre en bevist handling ved ny års skiftet.? blir jo også brukt i jus sammenhenger :)

[@melissabrentford8260]

Extraordinary, thank you, come more, I'm a fan! I propose, Arith Härger Fan Club! Let's do it?

[@ArithHärger]

No, please. Don't want followers, I don't want fans. Just want people to be attentive and develop their critical thinking.

[@MrEnaric]

Forseti (Foarsitter in modern Frisian) as the deity with the golden axe from the legend 'Thet threttundista Asega) is intriguing and actually very logical. Even in a Christian context, the presence of a deity who passes on divine knowledge (the Eiwa Frisionum or ancient Frisian lawcode that partly survived in medieval texts) as well as the well follow a clear pattern. Near the well, legend has it further, an 'Axens Howe' or Axe-sanctuary was created by this 'thirteenth lawspeaker', where law would be dealt from that time on. Forseti was probably this 13th lawspeaker 'who looked like any other of the twelve' but commanded sea and winds and the law of the people.

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you for the information, very much appreciated.

[@MrEnaric]

@@ArithHärger Well, thank yóu! There is an actual site where the legend in medieval times was thought to have taken place: Helwerd ('sacred-terp-mound) in the Dutch province of Groningen, once part of Tota Frisia. Near the old Thingsite (old Frisian 'Wi-Thume), situated on the old churchyard, a monument refers to this story. The site is still sacred ;-)

[@guerillaguru8650]

Foarsitter is Voorzitter(chairman )in Dutch.

[@simonekaspy2231]

🥇Härger Fan Club! Let's do it?

[@zetalivsanns5360]

Thanks .thats all i would.

[@paultodd7806]

Arith Here in the UK we have a jury of 12 people which came to us from the Dane law. Before that our laws where handled by the Witan would any of these have any links to this? Beside the previous the Tynwald in the Isle of Man (oldest parliament in the world) still have the opening of parliament on the tiered mound. Just a few meters away in a Viking burial.

[@danny91pr]

Hello I'm new to this channel and the concepts presented here. Is there a particular order in which you would recommend watching your videos? Thank you

[@Bubbleetuna]

Kind of unrelated but I was excited bc my gma is 100% Dutch and her gma spoke frisian. She lived to be 103 and died the year I was born (2001). She was born in 1899 so she lived in 3 centuries! When she was a child her mom put her and other kids somewhere in the house to hide them because the native Americans would come in and want food but they would take children. So they were made some food and they gifted a skirt made by them but unfortunately we can't find it. My grandma really wants to go check the place out since we have Norwegian, bohemian, Scandinavian heritage. Sorry I just really wanted to say all of that. Learning all of this is so very interesting and I'm glad you put it out there. Thank you for all of the work you put into these videos :)

[@Bubbleetuna]

Also there was some word she said that I can't remember. My great great grandma was a clean freak and washed her hands a lot. She said some frisian word about stuff that was related to gross or ick or something. Like germs

[@Bubbleetuna]

And their last name got converted when coming to America. It was mennink or something like that and it got switched to menning so there really shouldn't be anyone with that last name

[@gnostic268]

There weren't Native Americans roaming around in 1899 in the United States. They were all on reservations by that time which were similar to internment camps. This is the problem with uneducated immigrants who move into other people's land and then make up stories about them that are false. It was the government that came and took Native children away to residential schools. Native people had no need of immigrant children. Your family told you a lie and you're ignorantly repeating their lie. 🙄

[@deniseleip7719]

Oba, tem legenda em português!

[@Sheepdog1314]

hello friend - good to see you here......as a former police officer, Forseti is my go-to ...

[@LearnRunes]

What would he say to the people making the laws today?

[@ArithHärger]

Hard to determine, as politics are different in many different countries, but to me one thing seems to be certain: as old Laws go, Anglo-Saxon laws seemed to have be far better as laws went in those periods. In truth, there's a particular point that makes them better than Roman laws (for instance, and talking about European context), as Anglo-Saxon laws (a series of judicial concepts evolving since Pre-Roman western European Iron Age contexts) were far more concerned with the needs of the people, rather than the Roman laws that protected the Elites and ruined the lives of the "common folk" in favour of aggrandizing the power and wealth of the controlling classes. In terms of laws and politics today's Western Europe is a mixture of Greeco-Roman and Anglo-Saxon and West-Germanic laws.

[@archangel_one]

Forseti is supposed to be my great...great grandfather.

[@beitophfongfu]

Eles mesmos

[@jonasfischer878]

A sanctuary where you don't speak sounds very frisian indeed. I have a mate who's frisian, they tend to be not very talkative :D still love them tho

[@phillipr.mctear8962]

👍

[@jacklinrobinson8118]

Great!I'm confused between following christianitiy or paganism 🤔🤔🤔

[@devinsmith4790]

Maybe Forseti isn't mentioned much is because he isn't that widely worshipped of a Norse deity? Idk.

[@leifurthorleifs9869]

Very few percentage of the Icelandic population knows where the name Forseti comes from. As the name Forseti means the highest power of executive power in Icelandic politics. And this power has always served the interests of the Icelandic elite that was made by a foreign power in ww2 and then again never made to the interests of the common people.😅

[@leifurthorleifs9869]

To addition. Icelandic forseti as highest of executive power has nothing to do with lawmaking. His ministers are nominated by a majority of elected political parties. Tradition is he/she has to say yes. So much for democracy.😂

[@Vandelberger]

Not knowing much about Forseti, I would of compared him to Tyr.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Bit late to this but my married name Forsyth supposedly came from Forseti, via the Norseman ancestry of the Normans. Funnily enough I am mainly Frisian with some Saxon and Danish!