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Winter Finding - September 22
The AFA would like to wish all our Folk a bountiful Winter Finding! The ancient calendar only recognized two seasons. There was summer,...
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Sara Ault
Sep 11, 2023
Frigga's Secret Garden
Grimm’s fairy tales, as well as the classic book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, taught me as a child that some gardens...
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Sara Ault
Sep 9, 2023
Eir Ritual
This is a simple ritual to connect with the goddess Eir. Eir is connected to healing, whether that be recovery from a physical ailment...
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Sara Ault
Sep 8, 2023
Oaths, their Importance, Impact, and Implications
For many of us, it is a foreign concept that our word has meaning. For our ancestors, over many millennia, an individual’s word was their...
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Sara Ault
Sep 8, 2023
A Thousand Excuses
"Show yourselves men this day, for tomorrow will be too late. There is no safety for you but in victory!” -King Totila of the Ostrogoths...
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Sara Ault
Sep 8, 2023
September Holidays - Prince Hermann | Winter Finding
Read by Folkbuilder Nick Rice https://runestone.org/prince-herman-o... https://www.runestone.org/winter-find...
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Sara Ault
Sep 6, 2023
Mimisbrunnr, Mimirs' Mystical Well
Beneath the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil is a well whose water contains much wisdom and intelligence, and the master of which is...
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Sara Ault
Sep 6, 2023
Synchronicity
An experience; Many years ago, while just recently aware of our Elder Traditions, I came across Edred Thorsson's books about Runes. The...
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Sara Ault
Aug 23, 2023
Freyfaxi - Folkbuilder Jim Cummings
Our celebration of Freyfaxi, the beginning of the harvest, is quickly approaching. In olden times, the significance of this season was...
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Sara Ault
Aug 23, 2023
Freyfaxi
Though Freyfaxi is, in name, a modern holiday the celebration around which it is centered is much older. Dedicated to Freyr, our...
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Sara Ault
Aug 9, 2023
Kenaz
Hails from Northern Idaho! This month we discussed the Rune Kenaz of the Elder futhark and KA from the Armanen runes. Old English rune...
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Sara Ault
Aug 9, 2023
Lord of the Sea Shanty (Hail Njörð!)
Yo-Ho! Hail Njörð! Njörðr, lord of the sea; Yo-Ho! Hail Njörðr! Grant us prosperity. Down by the shore – in Nóatún lives; a prince of...
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Sara Ault
Aug 8, 2023
King Radbod of Frisia
Radbod, known as the greatest King of the Frisians, spent his life tirelessly fighting against the subjugation of the Franks. While his...
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Sara Ault
Aug 8, 2023
Victory requires Loyalty; Divinity demands Piety
I have joked a few times this summer about how "it sure has been a hot summer for the AFA". We have had some people, inside and outside...
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Sara Ault
Aug 1, 2023
August Holidays
King Radbod of Frisia | Freyfaxi - Read by Folkbuilder Nick Rice. https://runestone.org/king-radbod-of-... https://runestone.org/freyfaxi...
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Sara Ault
Jul 15, 2023
Sigrblót - July 15th
Sigrblót literally means ‘Victory Blot’ and was celebrated by our ancestors in the early summer months. On the one hand, our ancestors...
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