Freyr's Pagan Temple at Uppsala
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Uppsala was perhaps the most important site for the Norse pagans. They used to hold an assembly called the Thing of all Swedes and a sacrifice called Dísablót in honour of the disir.
The 12th century Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus thought that Odin himself had lived here, but the site was more widely associated with Ingvi Frey, who was known as the Lord of the Swedes. Christian accounts of Ingvi Frey sometimes call him the king of Turkey or a son of Odin, but he was in fact a far older deity and one of the most important. The Icelandic chief and author of the Eddas, Snorri Sturlusson wrote that Ingvi-Frey had lived at Uppsalla.
He was associated with sacral kingship and divine blood, he founded the Yngling dynasty.
The 11th century German chronicler, Adam of Bremen also wrote of the importance of Uppsalla to the pagans. He said that the temple there was covered in gold and that it contained statues of Odin, Thor and Ingvi-Frey
Adam said that the people offered animal and human sacrifices to these idols and also to a nearby tree and a sping, both of which were sacred. They also worshipped heroic ancestors who had attained divinity in death by virtue of their great deeds in life.
He said that a great ceremony was held there every 9 years at the time of the spring equinox and that non-heathens also had to attend unless they paid a fee. 9 male animals of various species were sacrificed by hanging at this ceremony as well as 9 men. The heathens were said to chant during these sacrifices.
the Ynglinga saga relates that a man named Frey had been buried in a barrow at Uppsalla and continued to bring good harvests even after his death and people thought this would carry on for as long as Frey remained in Sweden. The Swedes then called him the god of this world and offered blood-sacrifices to him for peace and harvest.
Music used with permission: Faunus Amadeus Loki - Uuodan
UPDATE: I no longer consider Yngvi Frey and the Vanir to be older than Odin and the Aesir nor do I associate them with a different race of people, for eg. pre-agricultural or pre-Indo-European. Rather I thin the Aesir and Vanir distinction corresponds to an ancient Indo-European tradition of there being multiple tribes of gods.
What has caused you to have such a shift Tom? There was obviously compelling evidence for your initial findings (I know enough about you to know you aren’t a rash individual) and I guess there must be equally and more powerful evidence for the statement above, so please share if you would.
Also - I find it very refreshing that you can change your mind about something you initially believed to be true, which is a rarity among people.
@@TheWizardOfTheFens No there was no evidence.
@@Survivethejive more of a feeling?
Æsir and Vanir = allied western Asian groups who migrated to Northern Europe and established the ruling dynasty in most of Scandinavia through the Yngling/Skjöldung/Odinic line.
Jotner/Jotuner = I1 Pre-agricultural and pre-Indo European hunter gatherers. The oldest Scandinavian group. Main ancestry of Gøtar/Juter/Goths.
This is very accurate. By the time they started making religions they all had fake gods even the Catholics were naming saints. To some degree out brotherhoods held together with the teachings before evil came in and ruined it, same with the pagan family
Highly glorious!
Vcijrrtu
I truly appreciate the time and effort you put into sharing your considerable knowledge. For someone like me, who’s new to discovering my ancestral heritage, this information is invaluable.
Very well made and it adds much to my own personal beliefs, being of Asatru. Thank you and please for the sake of knowledge keep doing what you do
your videos are just amazing! your depth of knowledge and the time you take to make these are very much appreciated!
Interesting presentation! Thanks!
It is said that Snorri Sturluson visited sweden and met with a swedish lagman (one who knew the traditions and laws basically) that deepened his knowledge
big if true
@@Survivethejive according to wiki Eskil Magnusson lag man in Västergötland the summer of 1219 and his wife Kristina Nillson Blake Eskil was also reponsible for the first regional lawbook of Sweden Äldre Västgötalagen
and its also said he retained a lot of information from them when it comes to the ancestry of swedish royality
Hello!, This video is very educational! I learned a lot! Thank you for linking the books with actual footage of the places they refer to! Hope you make many more videos!
Hail beloved Frey! One day I will visit Uppsala🍃🌱
Great video! My family on my mothers side is from Uppsala, but for some reason I've never visited "Gamla Uppsala". I really should, me loving historic sites and also having an ancestral connection to this place...
gamla uppsala is very amazing and has alot of runestones
Good upload thank You for it. There is a good Museam there and You can toast Allfather with delicious Mead!
This felt like a "Haj" would feel like to a Muslim for Me when I went there.!
Salutes my vikings brothers I´m from México and I can see many similarities between your Gods and our ancient Gods and cultures. Most precisely the divinity and honorable sense of the death and the live past the death. You reach the Valahala, we reach the eterno oriente. And the quality of your life represents the value and honor of your death. Good Culture the Viking culture. The Aztecas and Vikings sure can had been a good friends
yes friend i am from india and follow hinduism and we all are pagans before but in india chriatians and Muslims are not able to convert the people fully to there religion and we intact to our old and true religion sanatan relihion and Hinduism..
@@cps1998 Cry pajeeet....
Loved your video! Thank you so much for it. :)
+Danielle Mozena (mozelala) Thanks Danielle
🤩 Beautiful.
Wonderful video! I just completed a novel that features most of what you are speaking of here and it gives me goosebumps. Please, make more :-)
+LadyAxe13 I have recently made two more videos about Swedish burial mounds. Check them out please
Wow. ❤😀🍃🌳🌲
Interesting. Regarding any possible real Yngvi-Frey burial, unless they don't find one near Gamla Uppsala (difficult in any aspect) I would go for the 1000 BC Hågahögen to the south. There a major Bronze age chieftain was buried in a large barrow in a oak coffin, with precious gold objects. After the burial, sacrifices were made into the barrow including humans. 2000 years is a long time but perhaps not too long to keep oral tradition of a founder figure alive.
Remember visiting the site. 👍🏻🏴
Me and my family goes there every year or so. When I was little, and it was allowed, me and my brother used to roll down the hills or run up on them. At the church right behind, at the graveyard, my great grandparents also lies. It’s such a cool spot, to think about the history around it. But it could also be a really fun playground :)
Me too. We were often there in the winter going down the hills in our sleds
Hi Thomas, I've watched this video many times and I wanted to take some time and thank you for providing such great content over the years.
I would love to see your take on Felix Romuliana (Gamzigrad) I was born nearby and my parents used to take me there when I was young.
I remember the mosaics there being very beautiful.
Keep up the good work,
Praise be Cernunnos
ALL GREAT TEMPLES OF THE ANCIENT GODS MUST BE RECONSTRUCTED!
Important note: humans were only sacrificed when sentenced to death for commiting the most serious crimes
Maester Keimo can I sacrifice some child molestors to the Gods?
Very nice video bro
The PIE word "Goom" comes to mind. Goom meaning "Of the Earth", the modern word 'Groom' is derived from this word, but the 'R' was added in the middle ages. "Goom" is still used in Sanskrit mantras, especially in reference to Shiva deva
Greetings from Turkey, Turkish people know very little about the past and explores the history.
these people were assimilated by the switch to Islam and became a large degeneration.
Our old paganism and our saga's of Turk's is very similar to our Scandinavian saga's. Tree of life. The sacred wolf. Wolves guiding alongside brave warrior's bla bla.
And the similarity between the ancient Turkic inscriptions and futhark viking article very interesting.
"Atta Oden" was a great leader and the great leader of Alans. Another name of Alans "As/Az people" and Asgart means of protecting As-As people Gard-defensive. I think this is a fortress which was very close to the border Scandinavia...
Scandinavian legends, elves make the weapons of the gods
In Turkic history, the Alp's. The alp's and the task of making weapons, as well as to fight. Alp-Alf-Elf dialects is change.
These two people have drifted away from each other monotheistic religions, the Scandinavian peoples and Turkic peoples...
+Giray Sönmez Are there any pagans in Turkey now?
+Starkodder The Tengriism and the younger generation is interested sky-god religion and there are also many pagan here. Yes...
+Giray Sönmez Good
one would hope that Turkey would get rid of Islam already, Atatürk must be rolling around in his grave :/
Wow I had no idea. Really goes to show that there are far more things that connects people than what divides.
Fascinating insight. I consider myself pagan so have a great interest in this. I do like the Upsalla mountain top temple in The Vikings Season one but realise it wasn't actually real and it was likely to be built in a lower land area. Do we know the significance of nine? Nine years, nine animals etc?
+Adrian Jowitt 9 is connected to the realm of the dead - hence its association with Odin - Lord of the dead
Thanks survive the jive
+Adrian Jowitt Well it all starts with Odin Hung on the tree for nine nights in sacrifice where He found the Runes.
NineThe Human is given Birth after Nine Month in the Womb. Also the Valknut has Nine sides to it, Many others for You to find!
Can you support the idea that the Vanir were pre-agricultural and the Aesir were brought by some kind of external agricultural force? I have seem the theory postulated but never stated outright as in this video.
I’m dying to go back there
Hail
Snorre also wrote that Frey lived inside the mound. 😉
NICE VIDEO...
Ingunar Freyr means one who has conquered his inner fire. Ing is the name of the German God of spiritual fire. Freyr has conquered his inner spiritual fire. In the Vedic its known as kundalini.
Does anyone know were I can find an English version of these accounts of Adam of Bremen? Thank you, Adam.
very fantastic song is it on CZcams?
Nice video. Thanx.
there's other temples too for example ranheim temple
Do you know of any Anglo-Saxon Folk bands similar to Wardruna?
wolcensmen
Heilung
You shall take a look at my video the pillars of old Uppsala 800 bc -600 Ad . There two pillar colonnades has been found, the largest are 900 m and the other atleast around 500 m. And the oldest of them are from 800 bc.
Look at the info at that video also.
Cheers
BirkaViking Will do thanks
+BirkaViking Which part is as old as 800 BC?
+Starkodder If I get it right it shall be the oldest part of the largest one that shall be from 800 bc.
+BirkaViking So you mean the northern one?
Yeah If I has got the info right, yes..
Mytrueancestry pcr puts me closest to uppsala dig site like real close. However on the modern pcr im in between weslch and German. My mother and grandmother always worshiped Odin and thats weird here in America. In one town in Pennsylvania we had a burning cross put in our yard when i was 14. We moved but 20 years later i hear we are still local legends as witchs. Im tall and strong my grandfather was surname Stout. However my blonde hair turned brown and my eyes are a honey color some American say i look Italian however Italian dont. I wonder how common my looks are amonst the swedes. I tan very well. Could this be from celts i dont know.
The soul and the spirits in this body from norse, from loki familia, must get out from this body and life in norse society to have protection from us
Can someone tell me the name of the music in the backround??
Jackal head Faunus Amadeus Loki - Uuodan
thnx but I can't find it in youtube
Freyr sounds like he was brought in via one of the near east farmer migrations..?
Do you Think Aun The Aged, Egil / Ongenthew Vendelkráka, Ohthere/Ottar Vendelkráka, Eadgils/Adils The Great and Eysteinn ever existed i belive it!
i live close there xd
I only have one problem with all of this human sacrifice
Yeah...well most cases there were men that done the most heinous crimes and atrocities.
@@linkzenos afaik only aztecs and maybe lebanese would sacrifice children or women who havent commited any crimes, but most of those cases were people dying from ilness. But I know not much so dont listen to my words naively
elvas OG disir
Interesting place hail the god of fertility freyr!
Saxo gramaticus says odin alowed freyr to build a temple and tax the people before he moved on to conquer Scotland
Euhemerism
@@Survivethejive i realize this. But i it stll cool to site gramaticus in your description of what gamla upsala was? And i'll lay my cards down im into the history not the religious aspects. Another thing is the archeology doesnt equate to the historical descriptions. For example i cant find anywhere on the map where the spring was ment to be, or the platform that is said to be where the blot was held turned out to be another burial mound.
The sound is abit shit
czcams.com/video/3DNMytdex40/video.html
And hows this it seems it was a site for garnet jewelry production
Best of luck to you and yours
Get that ugly paint/gold-leaf off those figures of the Ancient Ones !
Derek Stynes multiple norse sources describe idols adorned with gold just as they are in every other advanced pagan culture. Gold represents supernatural regality
I3=5O
Freya is cool, and had a chariot of cats and shit.
........ OH WAIT, it's Freyr, not Freya. Less cool.