Category: Poetry & Prose
Odinic Rite Poetry Competition Results 2266 / 2016ce
In the autumn of last year, the first Odinic Rite poetry competition was opened for entries and submissions were sent in after members and friends of the OR read about it on this website http://www.odinic-rite.org/main/odinist-poetry-competition-yule-2266/ Submissions were carefully managed by competition … Continue reading
Odinist Poetry Competition Yule 2266
“Ancestors, enlightened Sired of their seed Poetry, wisdom A draught of Woden’s mead…” – an excerpt from the poem ‘Our Wyrd’ by Redwald OR When Odin took a sip of the poetic mead, Wyrd’s web reverberated throughout the cosmos and … Continue reading
Creation – A tribute to Hervor OR
By Aeswyn OR
First published in OR Briefing 224 following the departure of Hervor OR from this realm.
I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Hervor and have said that she was an inspiration to me. I now feel that I need to take that statement further to quantify that remark. Continue reading
Memories
By Hodekin AOR
From the dappled leaves of the wooded glade
I look back in time to a darker forest from my past
Here in my blood courses the ancestral memory
Of when we destroyed the legions amidst the trees. Continue reading
Outpouring of the Folk Soul
By Redwald OR
The following verse came forth unexpectedly and quickly. It was written down faster than I could mentally process it, but upon reading it back I realise it is about a number of things; my recent consideration of meditation; a song which was written by my good friend Lee J, ‘Lost Between the Lines’; my constant frustration with the social constraints I endure daily but one day hope to see an end to and a desperate desire to encourage others of my folk to tune into their folk-soul and rediscover who they really are. Continue reading
Gallant One
By Kris N AOR
ORBriefing 221 – Spring 2261
I am joy,
Justice,
Great and Gallant.
I am war ready. Continue reading
Rune Song
By Kris N AOR
Fehu is wealth in family
Uruz, primal energy
And Thrizaz is the strength within thee
Ansuz breathes Odin’s words Continue reading
The Great Theft – Part 3
By Wayne W AOR Part 1 Part 2 The sky outside the window had darkened, and the snow was falling quickly now. The Old Man stood again and looked out the window. He could see no sign of his family, … Continue reading
Wyrd
By Dominic H AOR
Of Words and deeds like pebbles thrown
Into the deep clear lake of time
Their ripples touch our thoughts and hopes
And weave their subtle rhyme Continue reading
Comparison between the Sleeping Beauty tale and some Norse myths
By Hariulf OR
As many of you know, there is much wisdom in fairy tales. We find preserved in children’s literature traces of old Indo-European myths. This is particularly true in The Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales. Wilhelm Grimm said himself: “the elements found in all fairy-tales are like fragments of a broken stone that we have scattered on the floor, amid the grass and flowers: only the most piercing eyes can discover them. Their meaning is long lost, but we feel it again and this is what gives the tale its value. ” Continue reading
