The Runes were "divine mysteries" in Germanic Heathenry. What does the word "rune" mean? In Old Saxon, a "runi" is a secret. (We as Heathens know this to be rubbish.) The first sentence of the Heliand, shows how important Runes were to the Old Saxons, claiming that the gospel is in a sense "Runes" and that the Runes prove christ. Another purpose, is that christianity is so different in thought than Heathenry, the Heliand converts Saxon Heathen ideals into Christian ones. Therefore, the Heliand is a "gospel" story, to make christ be a Heathen Hero figure, worth accepting. The purpose of the Old Saxon Heliand, is to convert Heathen Saxons to christianity. The first passage in the Old Saxon Heliand to mention Runes is the very first sentence. Scandinavian People also used Runes as their alphabet, but Christians like Snorri (the Prose Edda and Snorri's Sagas) wrote the Icelandic with Latin letters, and not Runes.įirst, lets cover the literary evidence: Old Saxon Heliand passages regarding the Runes. This "tragedy" also happened in England with Old English, and Scandinavia with Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. While modern German does use the same Latin letters I am typing with now, historical Germanic Heathens used Runes, not Latin letters. Germanic peoples did not use Latin script until Christianity came along. The Old Saxon Heliand was written in Old Saxon, however, it changed the Old Saxon Runic Alphabet into the Latin alphabet. Christ doesn't teach "beatitudes" in the Heliand, he teaches Runes. Uurd and the Shapers (uurdgiscapou) would be the Old Saxon equivalent of the Scandinavian "Nornir and Urthr." The Old Saxon Heliand mentions Runes, and the first sentence in the Heliand mentions Saxon Runes. There are three dozen mentions of Uurd and the Shapers in the Heliand, and many scholars have written works discussiong Uurd and the Shapers in Saxon Folklore based on the Heliand. Healers and counsel givers (Radand), among others, were important in Saxon society. Any title with the Old Saxon letters "and" at the end, like "Heliand" and "Radand", means there is importance to this title. a modern neo-pagan word with a similar meaning would be "witch-doctor.") Please note, Heathen society was very different from our world today. More importantly, Christ was morphed into a Saxon Healer (the word "Heliand" means Healer, in the Heathen sense, i.e. The most important Old Saxon writing for Old Saxon Heathens is the Heliand, as it changed Christ, presenting him as a Saxon Soothsayer and Hero/Drohtin. We also have an Old Saxon version of Genesis (partial), along with homilies, a list of Saxons who died by moon names in a new Saxon church in the 9th century (the Essen Necrology), various "bedes" (christian prayers in Old Saxon), and several commentaries on various biblical Psalms. The Heliand is as large as three of the biblical gospels combined. The surviving literature includes the Old Saxon Heliand which was written circa 830 AD and is more than two and a half times the size of the Old English Beowulf. There are not many Old Saxon manuscripts that have survived. However, we do not have any Anglo-Frisian Futhorc or Younger Futhark finds in Old Saxony.įor a brief history of the Saxon Wars, and the forced conversion of the Saxon People, please see this article: Also, it is possible, since many of the Runic finds in Old Saxony are from the fifth century, that two centuries later, a modified version of the Elder Futhark was used. This article will discuss and show pictures of the archaeological evidence from Old Saxony: All Runic finds in Old Saxon lands are of the Elder Futhark only, giving us pretty strong evidence this was the Runic script of the Old Heathen Saxons, until the Christian armies defeated the Heathen Saxons in the Saxon Wars, ending the spiritual and political independence of Heathen Saxony.
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