yes, yes, yes...
I know what you were going to say
"make yourself at home"! - well, I just did!
yes, no time to waste -.-
well... time is money!
yes but not your money...
you keep wasting my money in mead
have you ever considered getting your own money?
perhaps working in a call-centre, or a fastfood restaurant
or selling your soul to the devil
which is about the same thing and probably less painful
bah, of course not!
why making my own money when I can spend what belongs to others?!
it's the first principal of pillaging, hue hue hue
anyway, what are you doing?
well, I've been awake all night writing the next video
and I have no more pens, and now I'm left with quils
and I actually lost the previous quill
and I had to pluck a new one out of the chicken's ass
*bwok bwok bwak*
oh poor thing... already half way to be roasted
now you see how bad our financial situation is?
soon I'll have to go Robin Hood on people and take everyone's money
see how useful pillaging is? Hehue he he
alright, I'm done writing, lets get started
oh more boring rubbish... I'll drown myself in mead...
well hello friends! My name is Arith Härger
and today I'm going to talk about the "Valknut"
now, before we start, in this video there will be a lot of strange terms and names
and I will place them on the screen but please...
turn on the subtitles for more information
now lets go :D
there are no evidences whatsoever that this symbol is called
Valknut or Valknútr
supposedly it means "the knot of the slain"
but such term is never mentioned anywhere
and since this name has been connected to this symbol for too long
not only for academics but also for people who follow and practice the northern European pagan traditions
it will be very hard to break the connection between the symbol and the term "Valknut"
I have written about this symbol
five or six years ago at my blogs
and I have stated that there are no proper evidences to support the assumption of Valknut
being a symbol connected with death, sacrifice and even fate
but I have failed to mention that this symbol
its name is not "Valknut"
and its original name is simply unknown
the word "Valknut" does not exist in the Norse Language
the term was applied to the symbol in modern scholarship
but there is no historical background to support this
however
the term is a real term, "Valknut" is a real word
and it comes from the Norwegian word "Valknute"
which belong to an entirely different symbol
this one you can see in here ⌘
and it was used, and it's still used
on woodworking, metalworking and on textiles to create patterns
and in cheese moulds as you can see in here
Valknut is probably the most known and used symbol
as well as Mjölnir
by the neopagans, heathens and the people who practice the northern European pagan traditions
and as I've said before
the word "valknut" is a neologism created by modern times
supposedly by connecting two words
"Valr" - the dead or the slain
and "Knut" - knot
and this symbol is created by the interconnection of three triangles
and these triangles can be joined in two different ways
the Borromean way
and the Unicursal
the Borromean type can be seen, for instance, in the Stora Hammers Runestone
but we will get to that later
now...
the possible real name for this symbol might be "Hrungnishjarta"
which means "Hrungnir's heart"
as it is mentioned in the Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturlusson
in Skáldskaparmál
I told you there would be a lot of strange names and terms :P
but this is only mentioned in here
but
the myth of Hrungnir
was clearly well known in medieval Scandinavia
as...
as many kennings in Skaldic Poetry
and also the Eddic lays also mention him
but now I quote from Snorri Sturlusson
"Hrungnir had a heart made of hard stone
and pointed with three corners
just like the carved symbol which has been called Hrungnir's heart ever since"
this description points out to a symbol that can be seen in runestones and picture stones in Gotland
this symbol consists in three interwoven triangles
and as Snorri Sturluson mentions
this symbol was called "hrungnishjarta" ever since the giant was slain
and his heart was shown
so this also points out that the symbol probably had another name
before the mythological event
and everyone who knew about the original name of this symbol is now dead
and we will probably never know the real term of this symbol
this symbol is known to be associated with death and sacrifice
but is it really?!
now, I will show you an image
and lets try to read that image
in this image - the Stora Hammers Runestone
we can see a raven which might obviously at first be connected with the god Odin
or is it a falcon?
and you can see a burial scene in here and even a burial mound
and there are obvious connections with death and a ritual being performed
a dead person placed in its final resting place or, perhaps, being placed on an altar to be sacrificed
by a figure with a spear and accompanied by another raven
or perhaps a bird being offered by another man, possably a warrior
this might be Odin there
with his two ravens and his famous spear Gungnir
and to the left there seems to be a figure of a hanged man on a tree
which is not only a way of sacrifice to the god Odin, but also a symbol of the deity himself
since one of Odin's names is Hangadróttinn (Lord of the hanged)
and also Hangatýr (God of the hanged)
and there it is in the middle of this death and sacrifice scene
the symbol so called "Valknut" or possably "hrungnishjarta"
in the centre of the composition making it the most important thing that should be noticed at once
so it is true that this symbol occurs in funeral contexts
but as I've said before
the previous picture is heavily suggestive of the Cult of Odin
but there are other contexts where this symbol appears that point on the exact opposite direction
of the Cult of Odin
or a cult linked to death and sacrifice
so the previous picture seems to be an exception rather than what we deem to be the truth
and this symbol appears in a lot of other contexts
including objects, and even mundane objects
and in other picture stones associated with horses
and indeed Hrungnir's myth is connected with horses
so horses might or might not be connected with death and the journey of the spirit into the afterlife in horseback
and for instance another example of this symbol and the Unicursal type of the symbol
can be seen in the Tängelgårda stone
and as you can see in here
there is someone on horseback and the symbols below the horse
and it's clearly not a picture associated with sacrifice and death
or some sort of ritual
it seems more of a ceremony
in conclusion
we can not link this symbol to Odin, death and sacrifice only
there seems to be more to this symbol
and it goes far beyond the conclusions we have taken so far
so I think we must continue to study this symbol in order to bring to light the true meaning of the symbol
because it seems to me...
this symbol is much more complex than we originally thought
alright friends, I hope you have enjoyed this video
even with all the strange names and terms
and I must say that all the images that were used in this video are public domain
and you can see the links down below in the description
as well as the links to all of my social media
thank you so much for watching
see you on the next video, and of course...
tack för idag! (Thank you for today!)
*some swedish gibberish*
hey! what?!
*playing some chords*
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