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Snow God Gone Wild!

UllrThe Northeast U.S. is buried in snow.  

People trapped.  Transportation paralyzed.  Who ya gonna call?

Ullr, the Norse god of the slopes! 

 

 

Little has survived regarding this god of hoar-frost, who is commemorated in this pendant from the Asatru Alliance.  However, we do know that Ullr's divine attributes included skill in skiing, a trait that in recent years has given him new life as the legendary god of the slopes.  Fortunately, today's skiiers and snowboarders don't take along a bow to hunt game or to slay their competitors.

Ullr on skis

 

                  Ullr medallion

Ullr also has a new band of neopagan devotees, some of whom have revived the Nordic practice of swearing by Ullr's ring.  Alas, I don't have a picture of this fabled band, but here's a representive selection from an ancient poem, taken from a website seeking to reconstruct the ancient Nordic mythos:

Hon said:
"So be it with thee, Atli!
as toward Gunnar thou hast held
the oft-sworn oaths,
formerly taken -
by the southward verging sun,
and by Sigtý's hill,
the secluded bed of rest,
and by Ullr's ring. "

And who would want to restore the "heathen tribalism" of the snowy Norse?  A hearty band of faithful in snowbound New York!

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