Friggsday #9

 Blessed Friggsday 

Shielmaiden Saturday #25

 Lagertha 

Friggsday #8

 A good Friggsday 

Floki Friday #13

 Of course it is Gustaf Skarsgård as Floki from the series Vikings. Also as Merlin from the series Cursed. 

 

Shieldmaiden Saturday #24

  I have learned that a Shieldmaiden, Valkyrie, and a Goddess can all hit the proverbial wall...hard. Not only is the wall hit hard the knocked down Shieldmaiden, Valkyrie, or Goddess does want to get back on their feet and dust their clothes off and again battle. We may eventually pull our selves up with difficulty and then stand there in a daze of tiredness, loneliness, despair and a great feeling of loss. At times, like tonight, I ask what for? I am all of the above. I am tired and I am weak and I need someone who is emotionally and physically strong enough to put up with me and my weaknesses but I trust that he does not exist. Yet I think that he does but I keep getting disappointed and that makes me miss him even more. All I want is to be tightly held and never let go. 

  But is not that what most Shieldmaidens, Valkyries and Goddesses think and feel and desire and want? Just because we can give a strong showing does not mean we would not relish the chance of being helped made to feel loved and special. 

  Life is not one dimensional for anyone so why should it be so for strong women? We need love, respect, and protection too from someone that is strong enough who will love, respect and protect us. And there can lie the rub for it seems quite a few men feel threatened by a woman's strength, no matter her calling, and run the other way or make fun of her without ever realizing that there is fragility in a strong woman. When we break it is rarely a pretty sight.

  What has brought upon this stream of thought is that as the All-Mother Frigg, I have hit the wall this night. Feeling weak and down, I put myself out there on Twitter and was given love and wise consul by two Shieldmaidens. sometimes us females are each other's warriors.

  

Thank you and many blessings.

Frigg and Freyja

Mother Frigg, my dearest All-Mother

You comforted me in my time of darkness

Held me when I cried

Gently wiped my tears when my heart hurt the most

and reminded me to smile.

Sister Freyja, Warrior and Lover

You protected me from the ill-will of others

Reminded me to fight on

and sent your cats to soothe me.

Mother and Sister I am thankful for you,

your love, wisdom, patience,

guidance and grace.

May I be more like you.

Thor and Frigg

Thor and Frigg

Frigg and Thor

Brother and sister forever more.

Thunder and cloud

Cloud and thunder

Always together

Even without a sound.

Shieldmaiden Saturday #23 - Be a Warrior Woman

SKAL this Shieldmaiden Saturday. May we be fierce when face with our battles of our days. Blessed Be.

Being a Warrior Woman

A Tyr'sday Blessing

Only a little something in hopes that your Tyr'sday was good to you and that you dedicated whatever kind of battle you may have fought today to Tyr.

This is can be found at Etsy in MidnightCraftsman shop. The store has many more Runes if not all.

Frigg'sday #7

Cloud spinner in the sky

Mother to us all

Homage is we pay to you

for all that you do.

Hail Frigg!

Hail our All-Mother!

Shieldmaiden #22 - Valkyrie Rising

In sacred honor of the Valkyries who bravely and lovingly take those slain in battle or die a noble death to Valhalla, I give the group Benedictum's song, from their 2006 debut album Uncreation,Valkyrie Rising.

Frigg'sday #6

This night is yours Frigg, dearest Mother.

Others may have forgotten and not care.

They think of only your sister-goddess Freyja

but this humble motherless daughter,

who feels your love,

will never forsake and forget you.

For in you dearest Frigg I have found my Mother.

HAIL FRIGG!

HAIL THE MOTHER OF US ALL!

Shieldmaiden Saturday #21

Valkyries at Dawn, a water colour illustration for the book The Viking Gods: Pagan Myths of Nordic People by Clive Barrett.

Shieldmaiden Saturday # 20 - the Valkyries Prayer

The Valkyries Prayer is from Sigrdrifumal (Sayings of the Victory Bringer) section of the Poetic Edda

Frigg'sday #5

Blessed All-Mother

full of love and support

nurture us,

your children,

so we may give and love

as you do

Shieldmaiden Saturday #19 -The Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Met

   Whatever Richard Wagner's stance on life was when he was alive does not keep me from enjoying Der Ring des Nibelungen. From this opera I give to you, what may be the most famous piece from the second part of his opera, and maybe even of all of Wagner's works, Die Wlaküre - The Valkyrie: The Ride of the Valkyries. The video is from the Metropolitan Opoera 2012 production of Der Ring des Nibleungen that had Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde and jay hunter Morris as Siegfried. This the only production of this opera that I have ever seen and therefore my favorite

Frigg'sday # 4

Queen Frigg, Lady of Secrets
All-Mother that never tells what she knows

This I know for you never tell what you hear
So I confide in you what my heart holds dear
For there is no one I trust and love more than you
Oh beautiful and loving Frigg.

Frigg - Lady of Secrets by samflegal @ DeviantArt

Memorial Day

I chose to do my Memorial Day post on the actual Memorial Day and not the one that is observed because  I feel that it is more solemn and appropriate. I guess that is my old fashioned way of thinking.

  I have discovered a sadly haunting image of a a woman who cleans her husband's shield as she cries. She cries for her husband has been killed in battle and she naturally mourns him. Behind the wife is her husband in a ghostly form to say good bye before going to eternity in Valhalla, where they will, some day,hopefully again be together.


Remember the real reason for memorial day is to honor those that have fallen in battle and not those that have lived. That is what Veteran's day is for.

A Solemnly Blessed Memorial Day

Friggsday #3 - Frigg, Frigga and Frigga's Web (Germanic godess)

       On this Day of Frigg I share with you a beautifully haunting song for Frigg that is entitled Frigga's Web  Hagalaz' Runedance in 2002 from the album/cd of the same name.

I feel truly blessed to have come across or dare I say to be shown by the all-Mother this music. For those that know me on Twitter they know I love Frigg and am disappointed in the lack of honor she receives. I believe I have expressed the same sentiment in a couple of post her on my blog. But with this song, I feel the love and power for and of Frigg. As well as her wisdom.

  May Frigg Bless you and let you feel her love and power.



                                                 

Frigga's Web Lyrics

Silence before the storm

I reach the house hidden by the night

 

A light I saw I knocked all quietly

I entered; a woman sat by the spinning wheel 

 

"What brings you here my child", she asked?

"Don't you know our lady keeps her secrets well?"

 

It's my life I am running from

It's my fate I am hiding from,

oh would the Goddess speak to me?

Her ways I do not understand, the mysteries I must know,

Oh would the Mother see through me?

"Why don't you rest my child", she said, "I will seek her advice, I will wake you

when it's time"

All night by the spinning wheel, she sang an ancient tune and in the morn' her

work was done

In the distance I heard a call, I awoke and held the spindle in my hand

My other hand held new life, the Goddess had been by my side

and her blessing was mine.

Friggsday #2

Beautiful All-Mother Frigg

Seer of all but quiet of everything

Protectress of the home, marriage, women and children

 I thank you for choosing this humble

and unworthy woman

To be your daughter

and humble representative of you

Upon this land

My Frigg holding Baldr statue