Category: Texts

Alexander Bugge on Norse guilds

A small book called Earliest Guilds of Northmen in England, Norway and Denmark by Alexander Bugge (about 24 pages) gives some nice information about early...

The unknown origins

Logghe’s book From Times Immemorial… The Unknown Origins Of Freemasonry (2010) spans 500+ pages on A4 format. The book is self-published and only sold to...

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...

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...

Freemasonry as a structure

I do not remember exactly, but I think around the time that I got a real interest in the prechristian religion of Northwestern Europe, I...