Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
Personal writing on faith, family, politics, and life. Discussion is welcome. Debate is not the purpose.
Faith · 2023-01-24
The dead are easy to abuse because they cannot interrupt. That may be the first rule of ancestor work worth remembering. The living can quote them, polish them, recruit them, soften them, sharpen them, and arrange them around whatever argument needs an old face behind it. [more]
Faith · 2022-09-27
Blood is a record. It is not the whole archive. That sentence will irritate two different kinds of people for opposite reasons. One kind wants ancestry to be nothing but biology, a chain of bodies and names moving backward until the records fail. [more]
Faith · 2021-01-19
Ask most people what happens after death in the old Norse world and they will give you one answer. Valhalla (or Valhöll for the purists). A roof of shields. Benches crowded with warriors. [more]
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