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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP11 - The Lay of Grímnir · Random Heathen Ramblings

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So all over the place. And I want you guys to enjoy
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this week's episode with a bit more of a laid-back sort of
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attitude. I'm going to be a bit more laid
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back this week on this episode because we're not really going
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to be discussing much of anything.
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It's story time. It's story time here on the
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podcast. Okay?
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And I wanted to just, you know, Kind of lighten things up a
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little bit. I get a lot of posts or comments
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on stuff that I post and you know, some eat, some of these
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people that take time out of their day.
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I don't it's just trolling or whatever but it takes its takes
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its mental toll on me to, you know, engage with them.
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And as I know that's a choice and I don't always have to, but
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sometimes it's hard to resist and I figured, you know, I need
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a break. I need a break from that, and I
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just wanted to do something a little, kind of little fun.
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One and read one of the one of the one of the poems in the
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poetic Edda, I'm going to be reading from the Jackson
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Crawford translation of the poetic Edda.
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I have another translation, it's a more recent publication.
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It's like a study poetic Edda so there's like a lot of academic
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footnotes and stuff. So it's a little bit more
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tedious to read through. Having, you know, some of the
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some of the things annotated for study purposes but this is just
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going to be a straight reading of a poem in the poetic Edda
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called Green, the small. I love this one but this is
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actually one of the poems that is found in the original codex.
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Regis manuscripts as well as the am 748.
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I 4000 manuscript. So it's a, it is an early poem
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and it's basically a story sort of told any pros fashion is it
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where there's pros Prelude and and stuff and if that that's all
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part of the original, Poem. Okay, but it's essentially what
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it is. Is Odin is disguising himself as
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a cloaked individual. His name, of course, in the poem
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is green mere. So Grim too small.
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Is the words of Odin and disguise.
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It's green too. Small is the name of the poem
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and so Grimmie small like have them all who words of the high
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one. These are words of green beer.
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All right. And so anyway, oh, it is
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disguised under the name of Shadow face or grineer which
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means Old Norse means like Shadow or cloaked rather.
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And he's held captive in a court of a king who he once favored.
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And he delivers Mystic or Mythic lure to the King's son and so
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the preludes we're just going to you know jump right into this.
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And this is what's this is what is going to be this week's
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podcast. We're not going to be talking
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too much about anything. I would just like for you guys
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to enjoy. Mmm, however, long it's going to
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be it's a not a very long poem but I'm sure about for the next
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20 or 30 minutes or so. You'll be listening to me,
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recite the poem grieving too small, so I hope you all enjoy.
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Don't forget to like this podcast, share it around voted.
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Whatever the thing, does elicit for you to do.
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Please feel free to do so. So we're going to start with the
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Prelude and just run on through it.
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So once again this is from the Jackson Crawford translation of
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the poetic Edda and this is the poem green.
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The small King crowd who had two sons.
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One was named a guitar and the other gate with ignore was 10
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years old and Gareth was eight, the two of them rode out in a
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boat with their fishing tackle, and hoped to catch some small
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fish, but the wind drove them far out into the sea.
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In the dark night, they wrecked and went up onto the land where
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they met a poor farmer and they stayed there with him over the
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winter. The farmers old wife fostered I
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ignore but the farmer Foster Gareth and tutored him early in
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the spring, the man gave them a boat and when he and his wife,
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followed them down to the shore. The man spoke to Gareth in
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secrecy the boys departed in the wind was favorable.
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When they came to their fathers Harbor and then heareth who
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stood foremost in the boat, sprang up on land and shoved,
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the boat back out to sea and said, go wherever the trolls
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take you. The boat drifted far out to sea
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with agner but Gareth went Inland to his father's Hall.
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He was received well, but he learned that his father had
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died. So Gareth was taken as king, and
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he became a famous man, Odin and frigg sat in Cliff's Golf and
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looked out over all the worlds. Odin said look how your Foster
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son agner sits and fathers children.
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Trolls women in a cave. While my foster son Gareth is
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King and rules the land. Frigg said, but Gareth is so
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stingy with food that he starves his guests.
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If he thinks there are too many Oden said that this was a
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tremendous lie and so he and frigg made a wager about it.
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Then frigg sent her servant Fula to Gareth and had Fuller warned
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him that a sorcerer had come to the land but that this sorcerer
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would be recognized by the face that even the fiercest dog would
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not attack them. It was in fact, an idle rumor
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that Gareth was miserly with his food miserly with his food, all
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the same, he ordered any man who would not be attacked by any dog
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to be apprehended. Odin came wearing a blue Cape
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called himself Shadow faced or shadowed face but said nothing
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more of himself. Even when asked so the king had
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him tortured in an effort to extract more information from
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him. And had him placed between two
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burning fires where he sat for eight nights.
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Can Gareth had a ten-year-old son named agner.
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After the king's brother agner went to this shadowed face and
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gave him a full horn to drink and said he thought.
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His father was behaving poorly to torture a man without cause
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shadowed face drank and by then the fire had grown.
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So large, it had begun to burn his cloak.
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Then Shadow face said, you're hot fire and much too big.
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Get away from me Flames. My coat is getting burned.
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Even though I'm holding it up, my clothing is on fire.
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I've sat between the fires here for eight nights and no one
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offered or gave me food except agner alone.
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Now, I ignore will be the sole ruler of the land of the Goths.
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Hey lackner, it's the chief of the Gods, whose wishing you?
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Well, you will never be repaid. So, well for one drink, no
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matter how long you live I see a holy land, which lies near those
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of the Gods and the elves in that place, through thame Thor
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will live till Ragnarok. Or has built good halls for
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himself in either layer. The gods have Fray the land of L
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Fame. The gods gave Freire the land of
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alfheim long ago, as a gift in his youth.
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I know a third place, we're happy gods live beneath a silver
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Road. It's called Vala Scuff the place
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owed and made himself in the old days.
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A fourth Hall in Saukville suck but Becky, which the Cool
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Waters, crash upon their Odin and Saga drink happily every day
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from Golden cups. A fifth Lan is Glide hame, where
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Gold bright with were gold bright.
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Sorry, we're Gold. Bright wide, Valhalla stands.
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That is where Odin chooses from the men killed by weapons every
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day. Valhalla is easily recognized.
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If one comes to see it, the hall is held up by spear shafts.
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It is roofed by Shields chain mail is on the benches.
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Valhalla is easily recognized. If one comes to see it, a wolf,
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hangs above the Western door and an eagle above him.
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The Aussie, the mighty giant once lived in the sixth hall,
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now known as 3M him and now Scotty bright bright of the Gods
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lives in her father's old home. Bald are built himself, a halt
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and it is cold, break, the lake. That's a place where I know
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you'll find little grief him dolls, haendel inhabits, the
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eight Hall, hymns, be org, that is where he is the master and
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that Pleasant house the Watchman of the Gods happily drinks is
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good. Mead Freya rules in the ninth
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land folk bong. That is where she arranges the
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seats. She chooses half the Dead.
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Who die in battle and Odin takes the other half.
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The tenth Hall is greet near with gold walls and a silver
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roof. The god named for city is there
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on most days and he settles disputes. 11th hole is new
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yours, which he built, and named notin that Flawless.
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Lord of that Lawless, Lord of men rules.
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The high timbered Temple. The wide land of these are is
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overgrown with high grass and winds that bold.
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Son of Odin is preparing himself to avenge his father on
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horseback. Under a mere the cook.
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Let's the pork from say ramier cook in The Cauldron, eldery
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mere. There is no better meat and
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there are few who know what the einherjar eat.
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Battle winning Odin feeds, his taint wolves Gary and freaky.
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But for his part weapon loving, Odin lives on wine alone.
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Thought and memory my Ravens fly every day, the whole world over
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each day. I fear that thought might not
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return but I fear more from memory, the waves Thunder and
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the midgard serpent makes his home in fin rears.
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See dead men will find that c passage too wide to Wade.
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Valgrind is a holy gate with holy doors, upon a field.
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The gate is old and there are few who know how it is locked.
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Thor's Hall Buicks carrier Bilk. Skinnier has a 640 rooms.
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If all are counted, I am certain that of all roofed houses.
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Thor's is the largest. I think Valhalla has 640 doors.
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If all are counted, eight hundred, einherjar walk through
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each when the day comes to fight fenrir.
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There is a goat named Hayden who stands on Odin's Hall and Nas,
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the limbs of the tree, letteth. That goat fills.
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Valhalla has cups with bright me from her Udders and that drink
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will never diminish. There is a stag named exit.
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Amir who stands on Odin's Hall and Nas, the limbs of the tree
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La death drops fall from his horse Hooves or sorry, Drops
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Fall from his horns Into The Well of hit then giving gillogly
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mere and that is the origin of all the rivers.
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The rivers Seath and vieth. It's taken and Aiken, sold in
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neutral Pion and symbol for Ryan and Ranieri people and go poo on
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your names and I'm having a hard time pronouncing.
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I didn't come the God's riches. Another river is Veena another
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big space in Vegas mean, a third is both Numa and also neat and
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not known and grown safe and Faith.
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See you again ear, Vite and Bone Bond and stoned, Joel, and
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leaped. These rivers flow near the men
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who die and go to hell. Thor will wait for Rivers
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everyday, the ones called court and ornament the two rivers care
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lag. When he goes to meetings at the
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tree yggdrasil, be frost Bridge of the Gods Burns in bright
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Flame. The holy Waters seethe.
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The Rivers Glass in gear and scraped premier.
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These names. sill free up and Senior e Co and foul off near
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girl top L fear the gods of Asgard ride their horses every
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day over these when they go to meet at the tree ignorance heel,
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beneath the tree, it go to seal are three routes which grow in
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three directions. Hell is beneath one jotunheim
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beneath. Another midgard is beneath the
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Third A squirrel is named ratatosk.
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He runs along the trunk of yggdrasil.
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He takes the words of the eagle. Tell his insults to knee dog
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before below. There are four deer who stretch
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out their necks and eat the leaves of yggdrasil.
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Dane and Valen Junior and Dura thrower No food has ever.
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No fool, has ever guessed how many serpent slide beneath a
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good seal? I think that going and Moen grow
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back and Growlithe off near and Suave near sons of the snake
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Griffin. Fear will always know that
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tree's roots The tree igner seal indoors more pain than any man
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guesses. It's eaten from above by the
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deer on the side by rot from beneath by serpents.
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They bring my horn my Valkyries creased and mist.
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Scheduled and skogen healed in through with joke and
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faith-filled. We all engage fuel.
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Ron grief breath grief. and Reagan, if they bring the
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einherjar spear, These slender horses, Harvick and Al Smith
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lead, the sun, across the sky, and the gods have hidden.
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Cooling between cooling Bellows between their legs.
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There is a shield named swole. It is set between midgard and
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the sun in front of The Shining Sun.
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I know the mountains and the Sea would burn up easily if that
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Shield ever fell down from there.
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Skull is the name of the wolf who chases, the sun, till it
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sets at evening in the woods another wolf named hottie is 43
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to your son. He runs in front of the sun
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behind the moon. The earth was formed from ears,
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flesh the sea from his blood, the rocks, from his bones, the
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trees. From his hair and the sky from
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his skull. The happy gods.
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Formed midgard for humans whom from emir's eyelashes.
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They formed all the green clouds from his brains.
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Weber first puts out the fire will have the help of ooh, and
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all the gods Realms will be upon so all the gods when when the
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kettles are cooked. In ancient days, The Dwarves
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made. Screed Lee, skis blood near the
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boat. The best of ships for handsome
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Freire, the strong Sun of new Earth.
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The tree eggs are seal is the best of trees.
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Steve's blood near is the best. Best ship Odin.
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The best God slept near the best horse.
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Be frost the best Bridge biragi, the best poet.
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How I broke the best Hawk garm, the best dog.
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I have shown my face in the presence of God's now help is on
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its way. It will come to all the gods on
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a gears benches when they drink A takers place.
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I have called myself greem. I've called myself, Wanderer,
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Warrior and helmet, wearer, famed, one, and third, one
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Thunder and ways. He'll blind and one eye truth
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and Swift and true. Father, battle Mary battle
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stirrer curse I and fire. I Evildoer, spellcaster masked
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and shadowed face fool and wise man.
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Long hat and long beard Victory, father, and War Ready.
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All father wore father, rope Rider and hanged God.
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I have never been known by just one name since I first walked.
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They called me shadowed face here at gate Earth's place but
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gilding and Osmonds they called me driver when I pulled the
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sleds and mighty at the assembly among the gods, I'm called.
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Wish granter speaker just as high Shield Shaker wand Bearer
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graybeard. Wise and wisdom grantor where my
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name's at Seoul continues whole when I deceive the old Giants
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and I killed his famous son. I was his killer You are drunk,
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Gareth you have drunk too much, you have lost too much.
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When you have lost my favor, you've lost the favor of Odin
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and all the einherjar I've told you much and you'll remember
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little Your friends will deceive you.
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I see the sword of my friend dripping with blood.
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Now Odin will have a weapon weapons killed man.
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I know your life has ended your guardian Spirits are anxious.
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They see Odin here before you approach me if you can Odin is
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my name but before they called me Terror and thunder before
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that and Waker and killer and confuse ER an orator God heat
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maker, sleep maker, both gilding and father.
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I think all these names were used for me alone.
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King gay Ruth, sat with his sword on his knees halfway drawn
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when he understood that, this was Odin who had come to his
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Hall. He stood up and wanted to take
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Odin out of his Flames or out of the Flames.
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But the sword fell out of his hand and fell Hilt.
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First to the ground, the king, tripped and fell upon it, so
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that the sword pierced him through and he died, Then Odin
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left and agner was the king of that land for a long time
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afterward. Well, there you have it.
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There was the Fairly poor reading.
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I have to admit some of those names were just getting to me
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and I don't know, maybe the smoke in my eyes.
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I was just it was a bit of a challenge.
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You can tell I was struggling through it.
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So apologies for the for the less-than-stellar delivery of
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the poem groom too small. Yeah that was cool.
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You know like Again, didn't really want to just get too deep
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into discussions this week. I just, I needed that.
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Lighten it, I needed to lighten it up a bit, you know, and I
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hope you guys can appreciate that.
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But it's kind of cool because, you know, A couple weeks ago or
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I don't know within the last month I think we had we had a
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couple of guys we had Roger and Robert on from the runestone
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heathens of Ohio, Southwest Ohio.
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I think talking about some stanzas from voluspa and there
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was mention of some stanzas in, you know, grivna small.
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And of course this is an English translation that Jackson
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Crawford offers, and Some of those names I was tripping over
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and mispronouncing them. I'm sure horribly.
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So apologies for those of you that are catching this and going
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what you said it wrong, it should have been this.
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It should have been that fully admit that it was a, not the
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greatest reading of it so I'll do better for next time if we do
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another one of these, but it's cool because like I said, we
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were talking about some of the names of the halls of the Gods
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and then bring the small is where we hear the various names
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mentioned, you know, for air has one Freya has 14 has of Rome.
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Braga has a room Boulder. Has a home Heimdall has a home
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of course right? Like all these various halls or
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Realms in Asgard that they have their own separate, domains.
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Just like we do, just like we have all our own separate homes
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or domains, you know. So it's kind of cool to remember
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that episode and come back and reread it again.
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So if you guys are wondering, That was really small.
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You want to reread it yourselves or pull out your own copy or
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sure. There's I'm sure there's a, you
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know, copies available online as well so you can probably find
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that on a number of websites but yeah it's called Green the small
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And yeah, so before I go real quick just want to do a quick
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shower, I posted or mentioned last episode.
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There's a volunteer-based organization, it's called sacred
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Trail Society, sacred Trail society, and it's in, it's an
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affiliate of Appalachian animism.
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So if you go to Appalachian animism.com / sacred Trail
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Society, you'll find out more this is a again, a
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volunteer-based organization and all it is for is is to inspire
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folks to get out and pick up, litter, pick up trash, you know,
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on nature, nature ways trails and Greenways streams Rivers,
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you know, Parks, even places where people go to enjoy the
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tranquility and the And the beauty of nature, where it has
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been, unfortunately. Taking advantage of and trash
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has been left there. So you guys have probably seen
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posts. Hopefully, at this point now, on
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my channel on midgard, musings on the page there.
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But there's also a Facebook page, there is an Instagram
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account and then there's the website.
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So, you know, if you go to Facebook and you go to Sacred
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Trail Society or at sacred Trail Society on Instagram, all that
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information is going to be annotated down in the
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description and show notes of the podcast.
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Also, please be sure to follow each of those accounts, if you
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don't mind and then do your part as well.
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There's recently been some merchandise release, there's I
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think stickers patches maybe some shirts.
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There's like, tote bags I think that are going to be if they're
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not already being made as well. But it's for a good cause you
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know. So if you guys want to get a
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decal or a sticker or a patch or something, to put on your
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jacket, your shirt, your vehicle.
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Check it out, check out the website and it's Appalachian,
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animism.com /, sacred Trail Society links will be in the
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description and show notes of the podcast for you guys to
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follow and Ian co-founder of the of that organization.
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So it's me, my Patrick, my tribal acid, my Patrick is Yeah,
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he's my Patrick Patrick our Thule, our tribal brother.
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Oh, Fargo, the and papa, always sanofi-aventis your Workshop.
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All of us, collectively are co-founders of this volunteer
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do, follow it on social media. If you're out there, picking up
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litter, you want to share your progress.
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We would love to share that on the, on the Facebook page and
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effort to clean up the land, And and do better in that way.
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Use the hashtag sacred Trail society, and we'll be happy to
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share that stuff. So yeah, just wanted to drop a
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quick note about that and aside from that, I hope that you know,
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today's episode, even though it wasn't to educational or
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thought-provoking that, it gives you just a nice relaxing
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afternoon morning evening whenever to just kind of listen
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to a story. Listen to one of the two tails
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that exist that, you know, made it to the original manuscripts,
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the Codex Regis, And has survived all these years.
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And it's a great telling we hear all the names of Odin and
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Various Realms are the halls of the homes of the Gods of the
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aesir and vanir gods. So be sure to check the
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description show notes for the link tree link on all the ways,
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I do also have merchandise through spring so that is going
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You just go to there and you'll find all of the Sites.
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So, whatever that you see down there that suits your ability to
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support. Just feel free to check all that
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out. So again, hope you guys enjoyed
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it. Nothing too big, nothing too
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crazy, enjoy the rest of your guys's weekend.
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I know we had a pretty, you know, cold and crisp start of
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the of the spring season. And you know, with the vernal
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equinox earlier this week, it was down below freezing but it's
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gradually starting to get warmer.
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We're going to be in the in the summer months here before long.
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So you're all enjoying it and staying safe.
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Thank you all again for your support and following this
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podcast. So we talk again, at the gods.
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Continue to notice you and may your ancestors smile upon you.