Is our lodge a direct continuation of the old-Germanic guild?
This is the catching title of the first text (1939) that I found of Egbert Smedes (1889-1975). It already is a lengthy text, but he...
Jacob Grimm
I’m currently finally reading one of the few books about the Northern European sources for Masonic symbolism, Logghe’s From Times Immemorial. Logghe lays quite some...
Arvid Ystad @ Ars Macionica
“The Old-Nordic Influence on the Genesis of Freemasonry.” by Arvid Ystad A new theory presents the origin of Freemasonry, as a direct continuation from the...
Hávámál in Quatuor Coronati
The prestigious British lodge of investigation Quatuor Coronati has published an article by the Icelandic Freemason Jón Jóhannsson entitled: “The morality of Hávámál through the...
Website problems solved
This morning (June 12th central European time), the datacenter where my host has its servers, went down during a test. It took about five hours...
Discuss
In July 2016 I set up this website, the subreddit and later a Facebook page which I removed late November 2018. In that time only...
Ystad’s timeline
In February 2018 I finally got in contact with the author of Frimurerne I Vikingtiden. To my delight, Arvid Ystad told me work is done on...
Continuity?
The ancient North had its mysteries, like the more famous mysteries in the Middle East. Farwerck has collected many details based on which he sketches...
Website moved – update your bookmarks
I followed the complaints of WordPress.com users about the new advertisements for a couple of days. The subject is looked at, but I only see...
Added ads
WordPress.com apparently needs more income so they have started to experiment with more ads. As of now, there is this gigantic ad on top of...