Norse Pagan Temples. What the historical sources say

There are only a small handful of mentions of Norse/Germanic pagan temples. This video goes over all those sources and what we can learn about how to bring these temples into our modern day paganism practice.
00:00- Intro
01:23- Germanic tribal temples
03:10- Temple Charlemagne destroyed
04:37- Saxon nature temple
06:20- Danish temple/Lejre
07:05- Norse sources
9:20- Swedish temple/Uppsala
12:20- What a real temple looked like
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#norsepagan
#germanic

[@cardinalscience2600]

Dude, the way you open all your videos, always makes me smile. It’s great :). Content is brilliant too obviously.

[@yeetmachine1737]

I've been to the bog at Lejre, since i live quite close, the tree canopy covers it all with darkness, and there is a steep "crater" into the bog decorated with horse bones and feathers. One of the heaviest atmospheres i have ever experienced.

[@magnaholderson1436]

Hail to all the gods

[@Seraph120]

The German "Hof" sounds exactly the same . It is most often used for a "yard with walls". It gets deeply conductive to innerstanding if You read the translated Meaning: _1 delimited space, commercial and traffic area on a property, usually enclosed by buildings or located behind, in front of or between buildings_ _2 Farm_ _3 Economic or settlement unit for living and working_ _4 the entire suite of nobility, lordship; the place of the manor house_ _5 light-reflecting area of ​​the sky around a celestial body (sun, moon)_ All of that lends a lot to the open air You out forth. And in the further usage as in 5, there is a lot. Even though I can not name it easily.

[@olafrblutaxt1461]

Ja wie Bauernhof oder Vorhof und Hinterhof.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Mike the Viking thank you for this UTube show.Being part Norse myself, I always wondered what a real Viking was like. We all know about the raiders, but what about the merchant side of things? I have to say I'm not disappointed! Your merchant skills seem to be excellent. So my curiosity is satisfied. Once again Thanks.

[@seanmaddows9790]

Just found out about your channel, a very nice collection!

[@cidv4075]

Very good and very well presented.you went to great historical sources and beyond tacitus and bremmen...great one!

[@pappapata]

Hej! I realy like U'r content. Following Crac. and the Jive...byt I like U'r microin'...kul helt enkelt!

[@annamosier1950]

very good work

[@user-nt1sk9pd2i]

Sounds like they hadcalot in common with the practices of the pitcs . Would live to see you do a viedom comparing them

[@thomasfloyd3146]

Curious on your take on the giants church es in finland

[@sarahgilbert8036]

The Norse are blamed for starting the viking raids, when Charlemagne was the reason they went raiding his places of wealth (monasteries).

[@indigozen4794]

No, they raided well before the Charlemagne times.

[@sarahgilbert8036]

@@indigozen4794 traded, explored, raided - as did everyone else at the time. But the systematic hits on the monasteries was to deplete Charlemagne and his church.

[@indigozen4794]

@@sarahgilbert8036 absolutely.

[@valterrusso4711]

You think it's possible that those sacrifices left in nature, was a way to repay what they get from it? Like butterfly effect, bugs and birds and other animals would eat the meat and give a kick-start to the ecosystem.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Stone Hinge wasn't just a circle of standing stones. It was a huge Complex. I would imagine that the Norse would have something similar.

[@user-nt1sk9pd2i]

Can u imagine being viking in the 8th century out on a scoring mission and coming acrossed Stonehenge.......

[@g.l.holdren162]

I seem to remember you mentioning that there were temples in Asgard, but I can't find it. Is that right?

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes. In the poem Voluspa. There may be more mentions but that is the main one.

[@ItsNotShakespeare]

Do you believe the 9 realms correspond to the tree of life?

[@g.l.holdren162]

@@ItsNotShakespeare Keter Asgard Chokmah Muspelheim Binah Niflheim Chesed Vanaheim Geburah Jotunheim Tepheret Midgard Netzach Alfheim Hod Svartalfheim Yesod Helheim The difference is that in our view we live in the midst of spirit, rather than separate from it.

[@bjornekdahl721]

Hej igen! Once again thinking about this video and the research you're doing for upcoming videos, and I just wanted to share my thoughts from this morning - that for the original Vedic 'Hinduism' (that wandered into India from the west) it was also very important NOT to worship in temples etc, but instead outdoors. That must've been the Indo-European heritage, and maybe there's even more to what you're saying about temples and worship among the Norse. Just thinking out loud here, and don't know what value this has for you, but I thought I'd share it with you. (Despite the Scandinavian background we have in common I'm writing in English for the sake of your channel.)

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

I didn't know that. Thank you. Do you know of any famous temples/archaeology of these? I will do some research on those.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes english is fine so others can understand. I was thinking, probably lots of people with you last name, but I knew someone named Miranda Ekdahl. From near Malmo I think. Related maybe?

[@bjornekdahl721]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 The name Ekdahl is quite common in Sweden, not SUPER common, but not rare. As for my part of that surname I know that it was some of my relatives who added that name on as a 'soldatnamn' during the 1700's - since so many in the same battalion had the name Andersson they needed to distinguish them, so my relatives added a name based on the 'oak valley' where they lived and first became Andersson Ekdahl, and then just Ekdahl with time. When it comes to Miranda Ekdahl - if she's aged around 25-26 I know who she is. She lives in Lund, like 20 km from Malmö.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

@@bjornekdahl721 Yea thats her. I was just asking because my family is the same. "Eftedal" there are hundreds of us but we are all in the same fylke and I know all of them pretty much

[@g.l.holdren162]

Thank you for using English.

[@annamosier1950]

open air sounds good

[@bjornekdahl721]

Thanks for another interesting video. I shudder at the thought of Irminsul! Btw, I've heard of several (British) excavations in groves showing thorn hedges enclosing a hörgr. I guess that must've been seen as permanent 'temples'.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes it must be. I didn't know that actually. I'll have to do some research on those hedges before I make the archaeology video.

[@bjornekdahl721]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 I know that Sharyn Turner mentions the hedge excavations in her Wyrdwayz video on the thurisaz rune, but I've heard about this in other places too.

[@olafrblutaxt1461]

Du hast den Baum von Erfurt vergessen.

[@MickeysGrenade]

Do you have a favorite Galdr?

[@kurtbogle2973]

Having our Sacred places destroyed by Christianity is something that everyone on Earth has in common. Because we all do all have this in common, we should all be friends. Humanity needs to stand up and unify. It's time!

[@alse4970]

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