Looking back and compare.
Some 15 years ago I got involved in contemporary heathenry. Some 2½ years ago I was initiated into a Masonic lodge. Time for a comparison?...
Norse myth and mysteries
Johan Ernst Jasper (1874-1945) was a Freemason who lived in Dutch occupied Indonesia and who died in a Japanese camp during WWII. He wrote extensively...
Odal
On the right you can see a page from the book Zinnebeelden in Nederland by W. van Heemskerck Düker and H. van Houten (1943). The word “zinnebeeld”...
Frimurerne I Vikingtiden
A couple of months ago there was a tiny stir in the ‘social world’ about a Norwegian book about “Freemasonry In Viking Times” by the...
Bronze age apron?
An image I stole from the website of the Ullensaker museum. The image is a bronze age figure wearing what looks like an apron with runes....
World pillar with a net
Thereafter they voyaged till they found a great silvern column. It had four sides, and the width of each of these sides was two oar-strokes...
Yeavering
Farwerck draws comparisons between the “oblong square” form of a lodgeroom and remains of temples in Iceland. There was also such a temple in a...
Öndvegissúlur
Öndvegissúlur, or high-seat pillars, were a pair of wooden poles placed on each side of the high-seat—the place where the head of household would have...
Old Saxon texts
In Utrecht, the Netherlands, a text was found from the time of the Christianisation of these parts, the end of the 8th century. It has...
Comacine masters
According to Wikipedia “The Comacine masters (magistri comacini) were early medieval Lombard stonemasons working in a region of excellent building stone who gave to Lombardy...