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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 Northern Europe. As with many other native Northern European festivals and tradit ...

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  Det obskyra västerbottniska hiphop-projektet Zyklon Boom släpper sitt första album, Välkommen till avfolkningsorten. Med dagens nedladdningshysteri i åtanke, så har man insett det oresonliga i att försöka släppa skivan på traditionellt vis – därför erbjuds skivan för nedladdning, dvs. den vägen merparten av alla skulle skaffat fram den på ändå. ...

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Well here we are, with an all new webpage launched. So, what is this all about? Even though the “Wotan Klan”-term itself has been around for about ten years now – mostly as an “internal thing” for those in the know, among a limited circle of friends – this is the very first step towards establishing something much larger. Something which actually even stretches beyond being a mere commercial brand ...

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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 location of this disaster. ...

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