The Heathen Underground

The Heathen Underground promotes heathenry in a way that we feel honors pre-Christian northern European beliefs & practices. We share information on heathen history, archaeology, literature, folklore and art, as well as comparative articles from across Europe and beyond.

Hookland may be a little different tomorrow as this is happening: ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/ne…. I am deeply excited.

This is a truth, that the neglected lanes of England with their scattering of thatch-topped homes, are more ghost-soaked than any castle, any ruin. England is more haunted where it lives now than where it used to live. - #CLNolan

@Fjorn_the_Skald Awesome! We'll feature this on our page very soon!

Oh, it looks like my Master’s thesis is finally available! Here’s the title: Weaponizing Ordinary Objects: Women, Masculine Performance, and the Anxieties of Men in Medieval Iceland. If that sounds cool and you wanna read it, here ya go: academia.edu/41101109/Weapo…

And we have a new age record for Scandinavian ice finds: This arrow fragment from one of our sites has just been radiocarbon-dated to c. 𝟒𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐁𝐂 ❤️ #glacialarchaeology

The year is on its knees. The white bone horse of midsummer is memory shadow. The clip-clop of grey bone horse of midwinter echoes back along the cobbles as warning, as promise.

It's finally here! Enjoy! @sistersofmoon @AleutWitch @Jetthead83 @TheSageGoddess @OnurbRag @XIcebinder @PaganHeathen @Lionheartglass @m_designed @StirratJeff @Warwolf78 @HeathenGodhi @MjolnirForge @OriginalHU @LostViking9 scribd.com/document/43201…

Introducing Nehalennia, a goddess revered in the Netherlands in the (pre-)Roman period as protectress of travellers across the North Sea. The remains of a temple 🏛 and over 300 stone altars found on the seabed in the province of Zeeland attest to the popularity of her cult.

A good ghost story is always as much about trauma that cannot be stitched, memory that cannot be trusted and the ache for certainty as it is about ghosts. - #CLNolan

Passage, 2007 by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

Take a few minutes and absorb everything here. The barriers & challenges, the massive importance of visibility, senior mentors and all-woman shared training spaces. This kind of thing is what's needed to make #trowelblazing fields inclusive for all women.

Hel is the Norse goddess of the dead. She ruled over the underworld, Niflheim, where she received the dead. Her name means “one that hides.” In Norse mythology, Hel’s father was the trickster god Loki and her mother the giantess Angrboda. 1/2 #FolkloreThursday

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I missed #internationalpodcastday2019 so here’s a few of my favourite folk! @murderandmyths @NorthernMyths @Spherical_Pod @BlackCaseDiary @VikingAgePod @AusHistPod @HistoryofViking @CelticMythsPod @Gotobed_Diaries @Amlax_ @IanFontova @ShanonSinn @JoshMGillingham @ugitsisgv305

Haunting driftwood sculptures by Japanese artist Nagato Iwasaki.

Pathway by MikkoLagerstedt

Borr, about Odin: I have made a son. Ymir: You fucked up a perfectly good god is what you did. Look at it. Its got anxiety.

Orkneyinga Saga! Friendships & allegiances are tested between Earl Rognvald and Swein who embarks on series of raids, looting, & confrontations. Vengeance, regret, & honour of a man's word play a significant role in today's installment! podbean.com/eu/pb-pmq42-c0…

@ErgiGoat Thor is the "White Jesus" of Heathenry. 😉

@crowcawings That entire series is solid gold. Slender volumes, but packed with great info.