Wagon of the Vanir God

A look at two descriptions, centuries apart, of rituals involving the procession of a Vanir god in a wagon.

Logos by Elizabeth Porter (snowbringer at gmail).

[rodwickdy]

Dr Jackson: "Coitus with his wife"
Freyr: blows the camera over

[LeoxandarMagnus]

I love videos like this where you show consistencies between two very different sources.

[thedondeluxe]

Dramatic ad break worthy of the sagas!

[Dreoilin]

I think there has to be an Indo-European root here. Celts, Slavs, even some in India have something very similar.

[sushidawgz]

Thank you for igniting a love of norse language and history within me! You're videos are very entertaining and informative.

[MattiasGrozny]

I need to look it up but as I remember from my course in pre christian scandinavian religion there was some accounts of either an effigy or the relics of Erik the holy that where driven around the fields around Uppsala in a similar way.

[josephmillraney]

Pre-ordered your book, Dr. Crawford. Looking forward to reading it!

[Tina]

I enjoy reading Tacitus’ work, and this was new to me. Thank you.

[swinhelm]

There are similar episodes in both Ynglinga saga and Hauks þáttr hábrokar that are interesting.

[dinojack]

Freyr didn't like you finding out his secrets I suppose

[sagebalsys]

Apparently the Lombards originated in scandinavia

[dominomasked]

Dr. Crawford, doing all his own stunts

[jeanettewu]

Given that Skadi is used as a male name in the Volsung Saga, and Njordr is probably related to Nerthus, is there any possibility that Skadi and Njordr were once gender-inversed? A female fertility/ocean goddess and a male mountain god? Njordr's domains certainly seem to be related to summertime activities, like good weather, fishing, sailing, and crop fertility. Meanwhile, Skadi is more of a wintertime deity with her connection to skis, snowshoes, mountains, and hunting. So put together, was their marriage originally a seasonal myth?

[andresmoreno]

Hello Dr. Crawford. I'm planning on buying a book in Norwegian. I read hauge's poem din vegg and understood it quite well because he is very clear in his writing. I wanted to know if you have any recommendations for a book in Norwegian that would be interesting and help me with my learning ???. I've read a book I found in my college library about a collection of newspaper comics from the 1920s and it was fun. Maybe you should try it too, since the characters' speech is written phonetically because they are farmers from the East lands living in Minnesota. But the commentary (and the well sudied characters) speak basically the Dano-Norwegian language of Oslo in the 1920s.
The book is called "Han Ola og Han Per"

[antoninaheath]

Hey Doc. You just helped me to put some things together. The thing is that there are similar rituals recorded in 19th century Balkans. And from studies we can tell that the goddess is associated with earth fertility, Mokosz (or sometimes her daughter Marzanna - also chtonic goddess who is associated with realm of death, sleep, dream, winter, ) and she also has a brother Jarylo - beautiful god of spring, life, and all those sort of things. If you can see those incredibly striking similarities would you rather say it's because of the same Indo-European core or because of the influences?

[brutalisaxeworth]

Great video! I'm always bummed, being of modem German descent, that there is next to nothing preserved of the pre Christian Saxon, Angle, Jute or Frisian religion or mythology. Such a clear example that these, along with the Norse, were indeed once a much more unified culture is fantastic for understanding the context that the peoples of "the germanic tribes" emerged onto the world stage in. Keep up the great work, Crawford! Also.... You going to the Heilung show in January, my dude??

[NWEuroLangs]

You didn't mention anything about your Patreon Crowdcast No. 5 with Prof. Ármann Jakobsson - Crowdcast on October 30th . Is it still happening?

[williamsouth]

Could the author of the saga be familiar with Taciti writing?

[markadams]

This "carriage" transporting god-components sounds eerily similar to transporting the Ark of the Covenant in 2 Samuel 6.  (Except when touched the Ark and cart strike out at folk.)  As typical, with Tacitus, we are only give a minimal story (and never enough explanation for events).

[cpeithman]

Hmm, vanir. *marija gimbutas increases* There could have been a dudewagon in non-electric ladyland.