Tag: runes

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Part XXI available here.

1. Mind-Runes

We now come to the final rune spell taught by the Valkyrie, and we will find that it is, in a very real sense, a key to the whole: (more…)

Hail to the Day by Arthur Rackham

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1. Introduction: Wisdom Speaking

In our last installment, we discussed Sigurd’s meeting with the Valkyrie Brynhild, and how their encounter recapitulates, on a higher level, the dualities found in the story of the dragon slaying. When Sigurd rides through the fire to meet the Valkyrie he is going within his own solar, masculine being to reach the lunar feminine. (more…)

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1. Brynhild and Sigerdrifa

Sigurd has now slain the dragon Fafnir and tasted his blood, thereby acquiring knowledge of the language of birds. We discussed the esoteric significance of this in the last three installments. The birds tell Sigurd that he ought to ride “up to Hindarfjall, where Brynhild sleeps.” There, they say, “he would learn much wisdom.”^[1] This is precisely where Sigurd heads, after loading Fafnir’s cursed treasure onto Grani. Two chapters of the saga are devoted to his meeting with Brynhild, and they are rich with occult significance. Among other things, the first of these chapters is one of the chief sources for our knowledge of rune magic. (more…)

Odin riding Sleipnir in a detail on the Tjängvide stone

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1. The Language of Birds

In our last installment, we explored the idea that Sigurd bathing in the dragon’s blood is a symbol for the achievement of the “spiritual corporeality.” In order to complete this alchemical transmutation, however, Sigurd must also consume the dragon’s blood, and its heart. (more…)

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

We’ve already mentioned Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment,[1] and The Golden One unpacks this as someone who “blames the misfortunes of himself on someone else.” (more…)

In Old Norse, written in the Younger Futhark: “Moria, Komandor, Spámaðr, Helga, Valdis, and Ing raised this stone in memory of Harald, valiant man and husband of Inna. He fell in the east.”

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The story of an Asatruar fighter who fell in Ukraine and is being honored with a runestone was told to the author.

Like many Westerners, Harald rediscovered himself at the age of 30 when he got serious about sports, achieving a high level for a non-professional. He started with trail running, but, like Harald’s approach to his life, he grew ever more ambitious, entering a triathlon and eventually adding swimming and cycling to his schedule. (more…)

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Greg Johnson welcomed Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters, a recently-established nationalist-owned business, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download or online listening. (more…)

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The second half of last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

01:20 What is your Myers-Briggs personality type?
03:28 What is Greg’s idea of musical hell?
05:00 How do you know you’re having an effect as a white advocate? (more…)

Album art from Kvitravn by Wardruna, showing the band’s rune-based logo.

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Norwegian folk group Wardruna released their fifth album, Kvitravn, in January of this year. The band is an impressive example of prominent white Europeans embracing aspects of their own traditional culture. As the band puts it, they are “dedicated to creating musical renditions of ancient Norse and Nordic traditions.” (more…)

Front left detail of the Franks Casket, featuring Weyland the Smith and Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic writing

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If you want a mouthful of history, just say “mouthful of history.” It’s a hybrid phrase, Germanic and Greek, combining two great European traditions that met and mingled on the island of Britain. But there’s a local flavor to it too: the second consonant of “mouthful” is distinctively English. That’s why we once had a good way to write that second consonant: in Old English, “mouth” was muð, pronounced “mooth.”  (more…)

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Ron McVan is an American white nationalist and Wotanist. He has followed a lifelong career in the fine arts as an oil painter, pen & ink illustrator, sculptor, poet, writer, stained glass artisan, jewelry craftsman, and musician. His extended interests have always been wide and varied, ranging foremost in the martial arts, philosophy, the ancient mysteries, mythology, European history and heritage, comparative religions, and spiritual studies, most particularly in Gnostic Wotanism and Druidism. (more…)

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All installments of this series available here

It has been some time since I have published an installment in this series (the last, in fact, was in November 2019). After more than a year of research and reflection, I am ready to return to the story of Sigurd, Fafnir’s Bane. (more…)

Holger Danske.

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Of all the airports I have traveled through, I have probably spent the most time at Copenhagen Airport. During a recent layover there, I kept passing by a souvenir shop that displayed books about hygge, a Danish term that broadly represents “coziness, contentment, and happiness.” Whether I was visiting castles, discovering ancient burial mounds, or attending heavy metal concerts with friends, I have had many experiences in Denmark that gave me the hygge feeling. As a wanderer, dissident, and white advocate, (more…)