The Fire-Whisk

By Heimgest DCG Whirling from the Sun's Disk Swirling Twirling Fire-whisk Flaming Fylfot flying free Symbol of the Joy to be Sign of Hope and Victory Fearsome, Fullsome, Fiery! Token of the coming Storm Announced by Heimdall's raucous…

The Folk Spirit

From the dawn of Midgarth time Have I lived roaming the earth Flowered in the spring Greeted the sun in summer And drank the Mead From the honey The bees did make I have seen the battles The wars and the dead Slain on the field Of…

Hakonarmal

"In Odin's hall an empty place Stands for a king of Yngve's race; `Go, my valkyries,' Odin said, `Go forth, my angels of the dead, Gondul and Skogul, to the plain Drenched with the battle's bloody rain, And to the dying Hakon tell, Here…

Kipling’s Values

Originally published in OR Briefing 64, May 1987 THE BOOKS and poems of Rudyard Kipling have always been astoundingly popular. In his lifetime his stories sold fifteen million copies in this country and the US alone and his sales have…

The Stranger – Rudyard Kipling

The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But does not talk my talk - I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock, They may do ill or well, But they tell…

William Morris – Proto Odinist

by Hervor OR first published in OR Briefing, Number 97, Fallow 1990 William Morris (1834 - 1896) was born and grew up at the height of the 'Age of Reason', and probably considered himself an atheist because he rejected the Christian concept…

The Call of our Ancient Nordic Religion

Horsa’s Stan

The story tells of those who led Of one who fought and one who bled Of one who died and made his bed Upon the White Horse Stone.