The Merseburg Charms - Scott Shell and William Reaves Discussion

In this video, Scott Shell and William Reaves discuss the first and second Merseburg charms.
Check out William Reaves' material!
Odin's Wife: Mother Earth in Germanic Mythology:
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Viktor Rydberg's Fädernas gudasaga (Our Fathers' Godsaga) (trans.)
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www.germanicmythology.com
Other books mentioned in the video:
Poetic Edda, trans. by Carolyne Larrington:
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Prose Edda, trans. by Anthony Faulkes:
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Gesta Danorum, trans. by Fisher (accidentally quoted as Faulkes in the video):
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[@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464]

Please subscribe, like, and share!! I have also linked all the books mentioned in the video description. Thanks to William Reaves for this very fruitful discussion!

[@Survivethejive]

Thanks for this deep dive on these important sources

[@wolfpacksix]

An outstanding video by two well-informed, well-spoken Heathen intellects who are clearly fluent in and passionate about the subject matter. Good stuff. You two gentlemen covered a lot of ground and I hope you'll cover even more.

[@nicholaskroll6249]

It's great to see the Norroena Society getting mentioned! Their books are amazing.

[@williamwisner1547]

Seconded! Big William Reeves fan and love his Our Fathers God Saga. Also love the Norroena Society books.

[@egillivaldason7238]

Thirded! Ich am a stoor Wilhelm eathmeeter and ich love his bethedening of Our Fathers Godsaga whilch is deedsakely ywritten by Viktor Rydberg. Norræna Society hath a lot of great stuff too!

[@ChristophalHellewell]

Thank you for sharing this video with me. The analysis of the Merseberg Charms is incredibly informative.

[@kyledavisnorroena]

We need more in-depth conversations like this happening. Great interview guys. Heathens alike benefit from these kinds of things. Thank you both.

[@williamwisner1547]

Great podcast! Super enjoyed this! Reeves is fascinating and Dr. Shell is such a great authority, it was fantastic seeing this complimentary discussion. More please!

[@bladehoner3185]

Very well done gentleman. One of my favorite subjects.

[@cinnamongirl5410]

Awesome!

[@thenorroenasociety]

Thank you for this video and thank you for what you do!

[@karencarlson1693]

Interesting stuff! Thorstein Mayfield's translation of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda makes a good case for Harbarð in Harbarðsljoð being Loki, not Odin; this interpretation makes sense to me. Incidental linguistic question: lines 2-4 of the Second charm start with "then;" why is it spelled "du" in line 2 and "thu" in lines 3-4? It would be great to have a follow-up by you on some of the things William Reaves brought up that you said you'd look into further!

[@WillowtreesandChickadees]

Amazing podcast, please do another.

[@antonyreyn]

Great video Cheers

[@faramund9865]

In Dutch we say 'de dans ontspringen' when you avoid danger by means of luck. The dance in this case is likely battle.

[@davidaxelos4678]

Very interesting, I agree completely. As a sidenote: intfuar would be entfahr!, the imperativ of entfahren in modern German, meaning to slip out.

[@paolosasso2189]

Wow, so much to digest. One thing that caught my attention is when Scott said that a G and W are related. I think it was said the Lombards worshiped Godan. What is the relationship between the two?

[@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464]

W shifted to G before back vowels (a, o, u) in Lombardic.

[@YamiPoyo]

Firstly, the love for these stories is evident and very inspiring. Secondly, its great to see this level of content available for heathens by heathens. And lastly, is there a compilation of these stories available in order instead of the fragmented state that they are in now? Sorry if it has been mentioned, i just didn't see.

[@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464]

Not really. I recommend: 1) Poetic Edda (trans. by Larrington) 2) Prose Edda (trans. by Faulkes) 3) Gesta Danorum (trans. by Fisher) Those are the major texts we discussed in the video.

[@faramund9865]

Eiris sound logical to me. 'Eer' is very common in Dutch for example. Same way you can say it in English with 'ere', although I think some consider it archaic.

[@ryushogun9890]

Is there a good Discord server to hang out and talk about folklore studies?

[@bladehoner3185]

Could Phol be the horses name...similar to a young horse- foal?

[@sarah8383]

Hi from Balder's land. 😅

[@terryriffe4792]

In the Germanic world view wasn't bonds used as a metaphor for death ?

[@Survivethejive]

Hel is said to have ropes and a similar female figure with bonds of death is mentioned in other Indo-European religions

[@meloveyoujournale]

"duoder" ... sounds to me like "daughter" or in German "Tochter". "Hera" may be from Greece? People were traveling back then too. Ergo, "die Tochter von Hera"??

[@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464]

It’s not “daughter.”

[@renerieche6862]

Sounds like german "dort", ...means there. so mr. scott seems to be right