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Many moons ago I had a skin full of vegan ale, the difference is they don’t use finings(fish scales) to clear the ale. So I wonder if the Anglo/Saxons did the same thing?

Hello! That was interesting and very relaxing to listen to, as I worked on some jewelry. I'm surprised I'm just seeing this now, as it's three years old! I have liked and subscribed and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content.

The girlfriend and I would love to join you for a radish dish.

This is a great video! Thank you so much for including the rune poem, that sent me down a really interesting rabbit hole and I'm so so thankful I found out about this. Hail Woden! Edit: id like to add how extremely well researched this is. Doing research myself, I find this video to be very helpful for knowing what next to research. Thank you! Subbed.

Spooky subject beautifully filmed. Loved the content, the artwork, the music. Great information linked together by a dedicated researcher. Thank you

Just to add another little note - I have a theory as to why so many cultures have deities linked to death and the underworld with either canine features or canine companions. On studying the habits of early humans it seems many would try to place their dead in particular caves or other natural apertures in the earth which were designated for such use. These locations would likely have been the frequent haunt of wild canines looking for food, who would then "process" these bodies. Thus the wild dog, wolf, jackal etc becomes the agent of transition into the subterranean underworld or afterlife. My guess is that the likes of Woden's wolves, Hel's Garm, Anubis and Wepwawet of Egypt etc have extremely primordial roots, deeply embedded figures in the homo sapien psyche as creatures linked to death and transition. The fact that canines appear to be very sensitive to spirit presences is another possible reason of course - just thinking aloud here as I always like to try and understand the roots of things!

I was actually at work on nightshift in a care home when a colleague gasped as we were sitting having a cup of tea in the lounge after finishing our chores "Oh my god I've just seen a black dog walk past the doorway!" she cried. We jumped up and hunted the building high and low for the black dog, baffled as to how the animal had got in the building, finding nothing. A week later the colleague's father passed away. She understood the vision of the black dog as a warning of this event, even though this old spectre of folklore is little spoken of nowadays in County Durham - it's like people still understand what seeing him means, even though his original tales have long been forgotten.

Cool stone

How many liters of ale you eventually ended up with?

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Hi Sharyn, i really enjoy your videos 😊. I'm struck by the similarity between hag stones and the weights used on warp weighted looms (round with a hole to suspend them). Textile work has such primordial female magic - if i needed staff and wand, I'd definitely go for a distaff and drop spindle. I wonder if there's a connection there...

wow..

You are awaome and beautiful

Stay healthy, strong, kind, and wise

Really enjoyed this video . Thank you so much lovely xx

Oh wow!! I used to wander the fields looking for stones, jeremy says that was my childhood!! I love hag stones and have always….but have never heard of or found a fairy loaf……gosh!!! Do you know how much I would love one now!!! Keeping my fingers crossed the fairies trust me with their bread one day xxx

Hi, I live in Suffolk and really enjoy the topics of East Anglian magic, thanks for making this channel.

Totally brilliant thank you x

lovely video.

hi sharyn , Emmaline here

Thank you! Im an East Angle in America so its nice to see some lore from my ancestral homelands.

I am so excited for this series, even though I don’t practice “witchcraft” as such frequently. This video was excellent! Folklore is incredibly important to us heathens and I’m sure this will enrich my own AS heathen practice. I’m even more excited because it is you - most other English folklore videos are often very “Celtic”. Those hagstones and fairy loaves are incredibly beautiful - I need to find myself some. Consider me jealous! One of my favourites from East Anglia is Black Shuck and the scorch marks still present on the church in Blythburgh.

Can I just say, as a former atheist in my early twenties who only discovered the wonderful world of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors and their pre-Christian religion very recently, and who now considers myself an Anglo-Saxon pagan/heathen/Fyrnsidu - whatever you want to call it, THANK YOU! Wanting to prove that the Anglo Saxons were just as cool (much cooler, in my opinion!) as the Vikings resonates with me deeply because they are so overshadowed by their Norse cousins and sister tradition. This faith is just incredibly beautiful and I now feel so connected to the land on which I live and want to go to all of our ancient monuments, like Wayland’s Smithy and Wansdyke. You really deserve more views and subscribers; I love your academic approach, as a reconstructionist myself. I would love to hear more about your actual daily practices and such, like UPG, and whether you work with lesser attested deities, like Seaxneat, Bældæg, and whether you think the Anglo-Saxons had their own “vanir” as distinct from our “ēse” (aesir) - a lot of people merge Frīg with the Norse Freyja, etc. I don’t know how to approach these. Greetings from a Mercian (or Northumbrian, depending on the time period) now living in Cambridge. I really need to explore the rich sites of East Anglia, because I’m so close now! I think your discussion about Ragnarok is very interesting because a lot of other AS heathens just assume we did not have one and that it was a later development. Great video. Low-key really considering swapping my degree to Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Law. 😅

When you hear a dragon: Stop talking and stare at the camera for a coupla seconds, then say hang on, I hear a dragon approaching. Pick up a previously unseen sword, use it to stand up with, exit shot. Cut to you coming back, and sitting back down (some (green?) blood dripping on the sword, put it back down on the ground. Carry on talking about what you were on about before, never mention the dragon again. Annnnnnd....SCENE! I dare you to do it :P

Blódegesan dráconzena!

it's pronounced vurluspaw, but good video :)

I am blown away by how beautiful this is, so full of wisdom and your magic ✨ thank you for sharing you with us all xxx

❤thank you

As always you've put in a lot of effort and we're thankful for your thoughts and knowledge.

Definitely cooler than the Vikings 😁

Back and better than ever!

Nice very interesting information will you be doing a video about the Tyr Rune or the god Tyr 😎 SKal ⚡⚡

Well done you beautiful lady, against all the odds youve once again managed to put together something amazing. Its truly been a pleasure helping you and i cant wait for the next one. ❤❤❤

Hails ❤ the old english were much a part of the indo european families of all the cultures of our mother languages and culture during the great migration and expansion 😊 but we are all innately connected universally, we all have our languages and runes and symbolic alphabetical systems but we all derive from an older sources spanning thousands of years before Rome and Greece, and leading to ancient India or better the mother of all indo european languages and cultures or beliefs.

I love the cups you are using. A re they available from Amazon?

The collapse of the Roman Empire was around 450 AD/450 CE, not 450 BCE.

No yeast ?..

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Great Video. Is it alcoholic? I noticed no yeast was pitched. Do you rely the natural yeasts in the botanicals? Cool History lesson. Cheers from New Zealand

❤ again, I am completely in awe of your amazing talent and the sheer strength of your personality. I have never felt more proud to be your man as I do at this moment.😮❤

Beautiful workmanship good health and encouragement to you 😎🙏💙🙏

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Wassail, from Wessex.

Great craft for the Folk, cheers Shaeryn from Mercia

Hope you talents take you where your dreams come true.