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Wes Hal!1 Wes hāl and Beo gesund are Old English greetings and farewells that literally mean Be well/whole/healthy. The first seemed to be more common...

Modern man likes to think they invented time. But our 24 hours and our months and our year are playing out all in the sky above us. Long before the tic of clock or the chime of alarms we had the su…

Mine Wyrtruman's Fyrnsidu-focused digital garden.

It has been an incredibly tough Summer here in Dorset. The heatwaves have been essentially repeatedly cooking the ground and plants have really struggled to grow. At this point we have been without proper rain for at least two months. Farmers will have low yields and cattle and farm animals are already reliant on winter feeds to keep going. Many farmers have had to sell off livestock or take them for slaughter earlier than planned.

Heathenry, a Large Umbrella Fyrnsidu is only one of many types of heathenry, and in many ways it is very similar to the other iterations of heathenry. We will all generally have some common beliefs…

Earlier this month, I asked a British friend1 who starts his lunar months with visual observation of the new crescent moon for reference dates of...

It is the position of the Lārhūs Fyrnsida that private polytheistic worship provides the underlying foundation for a stable religious practice.  In historic cases public offerings, temples, and the…

Germanic cosmology is based around the axis mundi of the world tree, represented by Yggdrasil in the Eddic lore. There are no known attested sources of a similar concept in Anglo-Saxon history, alt…

Name, Pronunciation, & Meaning: Æled, pronounced /ˈæː.led/ (IPA), means fire. But it isn’t a familiar word for us because our modern English word for fire descends from a completely different r…

The concept of “do ut des”, the gifting cycle, sacred reciprocity, is basic to Fyrnsidu. The terminology I use for this is “do ut des” because it is the most commonly applied term and o…

Oh, supernal Gods revered Sunbǣras, Hengest and Horsa They who draw Sōl upon her path through the heavens divine Steersmen of the sun-barge   So as the wheel of the year doth turn, so too do I…

Midsummer, the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night of the whole year. For heathens, Midsummer is one of the most auspicious tides we can celebrate throughout the year. We follow…

Midsumor. It is a word that has become deeply ingrained in the national psyche and yet appears at odds with modern accepted practice in terms of the changing of the seasons. These days, Midsummer a…

Look at me being timely with posting a ritual this time! The little cadre of midwestern Fyrnsidera that I met up with for Ēosturdæg are meeting again for Midsumor next week. This time we’re h…

Witchcraft & Pagan News - A newly discovered 7th-century gold coin in East Anglia depicts Christian and Pagan symbols intertwined—offering rare insight into Britain’s spiritual crossroads during the A...

Name, Pronunciation, & Meaning: Frīg in Old English is pronounced either between /friːj/ and /friːa/ (IPA) and there is likely some variance there but in the end it ends up sounding similar to …

Author’s Note: This article was originally posted to “Sundorwīc” on April 6, 2020. It is posted here with permission.   A Fyrnsidere offers regular prayer and worship to the “Anglo-Saxon” Gods…

The people of Cerne were a hardy folk, well used to surviving amongst the chalk hills of the Cerne valley that rose up from the river of the same name. They grazed their cattle and sheep upon the l…

Hundreds gather to celebrated the folk tradition in Cerne Abbas

Author’s Note: This article was originally posted to “Of Axe and Plough” on March 17, 2017.  It is posted here with permission. In developing a more comprehensive character to one…

Wælcyrige is the Old English cognate to Old Norse valkyrja “chooser of the slain” referring to apparently beautiful females who would do the bidding of the gods, marking out some men to die and far…