The following are excerpts from the book On the Sacral Origins of the Germanic Death Penalties written by Folke Ström, published in 1942. As the title suggests, the author is tracing the nature of Middle Age death penalties and executions – and the laws surrounding these – to pre-Christian human sacrifices. In many cases, death...
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In various movements and subcultures, and during different periods of time, the Thor’s hammer have gained popularity – and have been widely used by different kinds of people out of different reasons. We shall take a closer look at the history behind this phenomenon, and the underlying reasons to how it came to happen from...
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“In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered…”, Cornelius Tacitus wrote in Germania, around year 100 c.e. The tribe Harii chose moonless nights for their attacks, and painted themselves and their equipment in black, in order to achieve a demonic appearance, and probably also because of the tactical benefits...
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Yule, Jól or Jul is the name of the ancient Germanic midwinter festival. Marking the beginning of the new year, and the celebration of the return of light and thus life itself – is probably the main theme of this festival. It was later replaced by the celebration of the birth of Christ, during the christianization of ...
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Six years after their slaughter by Germanic tribesmen, the remains of governor Varus and three Roman legions – 15 000 men – lay scattered among the brushwood and bracken of the Teutoburgian Forest. Pausing in the middle of a retaliatory campaign across the Rhine, Germanicus and his legionaries solemnly surveyed at the...
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