Well that day has come and it has gone. Yesterday I tidied up my trailer a bit. I am amazed I lived in this thing for 7 or 8 months out of and over the course of three years. I am doubly amazed that it still survives considering it was built in 1976. Was not really sure what possessed me to tidy it up but then I sat down at the table and I looked up and saw the Sigil above the door… OHHH wait it is the 18th of August and that day is coming up. And as not to run down those memories again suffice it to say it is a good day to live.
Live Long and Prosper my friends, where ever ….and who ever you are. For it is better to be alive than a corpse.
Author: Lugh Sulian
Standing on the Ledge: Rebuilding from the Rubble—an ongoing, real-time record of what happens after collapse, when old rules stop functioning and new ones haven’t yet earned trust.
Havamal 71
Bellows:
The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,
The deaf in battle is bold;
The blind man is better than one that is burned,
No good can come of a corpse.
Original Norse Text:
Haltr ríðr hrossi,
hjörð rekr handar vanr,
daufr vegr ok dugir,
blindr er betri
en brenndr séi,
nýtr manngi nás.
You might be Wondering?
Why am I posting a lot of Havamal stanzas lately. Simply put it is something to do. I am picking random stanzas that seem to fit my mood for the day. Akin to receiving your daily horoscope, or picking a random tarot card. How am I picking them? well again has a bit to do with what is happening in my life or what is my minds focus for the day. Today my mind was focused on work so I just simply googled Havamal and work and voila stanza 58. I have been putting both the original Norse script along with the interpretation by Bellows (Henry Adams Bellows) mainly because I like his interpretations more than others nothing more nothing less.
Why the Havamal? Am I Heathen? No I am not Heathen, but the Havamal just seems like it has a lot of simple advice on a lot of day to day life things. Just Like “Lebor na Cert.” HuH? The what? ok the “Book of Rights”, is a book of Early Irish laws and precepts to govern how one should live, but unlike the Havamal it gets into how conflicts, financial issues etc etc be resolved.
Sadly I am getting tired and cannot post more at this time and must get some sleep. Drop a line if you care to.. or not.
Havamal 58
Bellows:
He must early go forth who fain the blood
Or the goods of another would get;
The wolf that lies idle shall win little meat,
Or the sleeping man success.
Original Old Norse:
Ár skal rísa
sá er annars vill
fé eða fjör hafa
sjaldan liggjandi úlfr
lær um getr
né sofandi maðr sigr
Havamal 35
Bellows:
Forth shall one go, nor stay as a guest
in a single spot forever.
Love becomes loathing if one long sits
By the hearth in another’s home.
Thorpe:
A guest should depart, not always stay in one place.
The welcome becomes unwelcome
if he too long continues
in another’s house.
Original Old Norse:
Ganga skal
skala gestr vera
ey í einum stað
ljúfr verðr leiðr
ef lengi sitr
annars fletjum á
Havamal 126
Bellows:
Profit thou hast if thou hearest,
Great thy gain if thou learnest:
A shoemaker be, or a maker of shafts,
For only thy single self;
If the shoe is ill made, or the shaft prove false,
Then evil of thee men think.
Original Text
Ráðumk þér Loddfáfnir
en þú ráð nemir
njóta mundu ef þú nemr
þér munu góð ef þú getr
skósmiðr þú verir
né skeptismiðr
nema þú sjálfum þér sér
skór er skapaðr illa
eða skapt sé rangt
þá er þér böls beðit
HAVAMAL 127
Bellows:
Profit thou hast if thou hearest,
Great thy gain if thou learnest:
Be never the first to break with thy friend
The bond that holds you both;
Care eats the heart if thou canst not speak
To another all thy thought.
Original Old Norse:
Ráðumk þér, Loddfáfnir,
en þú ráð nemir, –
njóta mundu, ef þú nemr,
þér munu góð, ef þú getr -:
vin þínum ver þú aldregi fyrri at flaumslitum;
sorg etr hjarta, ef þú segja né náir
einhverjum allan hug.
I Walk With The Goddess
Artist: Kellie A. Girouard, Leandra Walke
Album: I Walk With The Goddess
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
She is the
Clouds up in
The clear blue sky
She is the
Ground
Beneath my feet
She is the
Oceans and the
Falling rain
She is the
Spark that
Lights my way
I Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
I
Walk with
The Goddess
The Goddess
She walks
With me
Goddess
She walks
With me
Firebirds Child
By S.J. Tucker
Album: Blessings
I am the firebird!
I am his daughter!
I am the firebird’s child!
I am a firebird!
I am his daughter!
And like the flame, I am wild wild wild wild
WILD!
I am the firebird!
I am his daughter!
I am the firebird’s child!
I am a firebird, the boldest song you’ve ever heard
Join in the dance, and make it wild, wild, wild!
Join in the dance and make it wild!
To see a maiden dance around
A fire is not so strange
But fire dances round the limbs
Of this uncommon maid!
Be brave enough to burn
And you’ll be brave enough to fly!
Join your sister Solace as
She lights the morning sky!
I am the firebird…
Wonders of the water air and
Earth are all the same
You’ll never know a wonder
Like the wonders of the flame!
Freely fly as what you are
And never walk in shame!
You must not fear to blister
If you’d live a life in flame!
I am girl and firebird
And Solace is my name!
I am the firebird…
If you’re brave enough to dance
Then you are brave enough to fly!
Forget what’s right and proper!
You won’t know until you try!
If you’re brave enough to fly
Then you are brave enough to burn!
Take my hand and join me in the
Carnival of Dawn!
I am the firebird…
Sister will you follow me?
Sister will you follow me?
Sister will you follow me?
Sister Sorrow, walk with me!
(Solace, Sorrow, round and round
Sisters burn the morning down
Solace, Sorrow, round and round
Sister, burn your Sorrow down!)
Like a flame you must be wild
I am a firebird!
I am the firebird…
You must not fear to blister if you’d live a life in flame!
Freely fly as what you are, keep dancing just the same!
You’ll never know a wonder like the wonders of the flame!
I am girl and firebird and Solace is my name!
Rise with the Fire
We can rise with the fire of freedom
Truth is the fire that burns our chains
We can stop the fire of destruction
Healing is the fire running through our veins
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