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  2. Dísablót - Wikipedia

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    The dísablót by August Malmström. The celebration lives on as an annual market in Uppsala, Sweden.A scene from the disting of 2008. The Dísablót was the blót (sacrificial holiday) which was held in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir [1] (and the Valkyries [2]), from pre-historic times until the Christianization of Scandinavia.

  3. Blót - Wikipedia

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    The Stentoften Stone, bearing a runic inscription that likely describes a blót of nine he-goats and nine male horses bringing fertility to the land. [1]Blót (Old Norse and Old English) or geblōt (Old English) are religious ceremonies in Germanic paganism that centred on the killing and offering of an animal to a particular being, typically followed by the communal cooking and eating of its ...

  4. Heathen holidays - Wikipedia

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    The modern Icelandic festival of Þorrablót is sometimes considered a "pagan holiday" due to folk etymology with the name of the god Thor. [5] The name, while historically attested, is derived from Þorri which is not explicitly linked to Thor, instead being the name of a month in the historic Icelandic calendar and a legendary Finnish king.

  5. Norse rituals - Wikipedia

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    Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times. Norse religion was a folk religion (as opposed to an organized religion), and its main purpose was the survival and regeneration of society. Therefore, the faith was decentralized and tied to the village and the family ...

  6. Þorrablót - Wikipedia

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    The Þorrablót is an evening with dinner where participants hold speeches and recite poems, originally to honour the Norse god Thor (Þórr), whose name is taken to be associated with Þorri. Calling the feast a blót (a sacramental feast held in honor of a god in Norse mythology ) makes clear the reference to pre-Christian times, which many ...

  7. Álfablót - Wikipedia

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    The first element of Ǫlvir means "beer", which was an important element in Norse pagan sacrifices generally. [ 1 ] There is a notable account of the ceremony in Austrfararvísur by the Norwegian skald Sigvatr Þórðarson , where he tried to impose on the privacy of a series of homes during the sacred family holiday, a privacy that he was ...

  8. When I first started exercising seriously, it was a lot of trial and error, but I found types of movement—barre, strength training, and dancing—that make me feel joyful and strong. 2. I move ...

  9. Raud the Strong - Wikipedia

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    Raud the Strong was a large landowner, described as an eager practitioner of the Norse pagan sacrifice ritual blót, and a sea-farer. Raud was known for his beautiful longship, a boat larger than any of Olaf's, with a dragon's head carved into the bow. The ship was called “The Dragon” or “The Serpent.”