Lawmakers in the state of Maine are to vote on making open air cremation funerals legal. This is good news for anyone following the religion of the vikings or any other pagan religions that observe outdoor funeral pyre funerals. #norsepagan #maine #pagan ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMp3qsuG4LI

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Visiting Raknehaugen near the Oslo Airport Gardermoen. It is said to be the largest burial mound in the whole North of Europe. Who was buried here? Sources can be found here! https://www.amazon.com/shop/norsemagicandbeliefs Online shop www.norseimports.com Insta https://www.instagram.com/thormmadj/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/norsemagicandbeliefs United Homesteads https://www.unitedhomesteads.com/ Rakni's Mound (Norwegian: Raknehaugen) is a large mound at Ullensaker in Akershus county, Norway. It is the largest free-standing prehistoric monument in Norway and is one of the largest barrows in Northern Europe. It dates to the Migration Age and has been the subject of three archaeological investigations. Rakni occurs as a sea-king in skaldic poetry and the Prose Edda. The name may be the same as Ragnar. In the Gest's saga section of Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss, the dead King Raknar of Helluland comes to the court of King Olaf Tryggvason at Christmas and Gestr eventually destroys him and his 500 warriors in his mound in the far north; some scholars call him Rakni, and there is some uncertainty in the manuscripts. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHJjwgu5GY

There is a generally agreed upon theory in the Norse religious studies community that Thor Represents the life force of humans and all living things. His hammer, Mjolnir is the driving power behind that life force. In humans, it represents our heartbeat. In other living things, it represents something we don't possibly understand yet. 00:00 -Intro 02:16 -Translation 03:45 -Attestations 06:03 -Archaeology/Bonus info 07:58 -Theories Every God/deity/character in the Norse myths had a translation and real meaning. When we start to understand this, we can see that the Norse pagan myths were not just a bunch of unbelievable stories meant to entertain children. We should not assume that our ancestors were that dumb to actually believe in these things. All of the myths and gods symbolize real things in nature, the cosmos, universe and spirituality. Although we don't know exactly what these myths represent all of the time and theories are debated, we have to look at these things to determine the most logical ones and discover the real truth. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYMgDKt1ASo