Life And The Love Of Life: The Book of Asatru by Bryan Wilton

Author:Bryan Wilton [Wilton, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-06T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Sigurth rode up on Hindarfjoll and turned southward toward the land of the Franks. On the mountain he saw a great light, as if fire were burning, and the glow reached up to heaven. And when he came thither, there stood a tower of shields, and above it was a banner. Sigurth went into the shield-tower and saw that a man lay there sleeping with all his war-weapons. First, he took the helm from his head, and then he saw that it was a woman. The mail-coat was as fast as if it had grown to the flesh. Then he cut the mail-coat from the head-opening downward, and out to both the arm-holes. Then he took the mail-coat from her, and she awoke, and sat up and saw Sigurth, and said:

1. "What bit through the byrnie? | how was broken my sleep?

Who made me free | of the fetters pale?"

He answered:

"Sigmund's son, | with Sigurth's sword,

That late with flesh | hath fed the ravens."

If there is a more appropriate paragraph or stanza from a thousand years ago which sums up the situation women are in today, you’d be hard pressed to find it, if it exists at all. How many women do you know today that have secured about themselves a fiery fortress to protect their heart? Most of them have such protection because of poor relations and misunderstandings with their father. While their beauty may be visible from miles around or simply stand out from across the room, it is disguised by severe looks to any approaching, would be suitor, if you can see her heart at all. I’ve written about it extensively in Spiritual Journey of a Woman including this story. It is well worth the read. But this long-winded couple of chapters was written to point out what happens next as life and the love of life begin to emerge, and then suddenly falls short, in the lives of people.

Most importantly it is a man who has defeated his dragons and begun an awakening of his own who finds that partner, who he must assist so she might allow her beauty to once again be seen by the world. No small feat in itself. But the reward is one of immense spiritual importance for both beings.

Sigurth sat beside her and asked her name. She took a horn full of mead and gave him a memory-draught.

People may argue it all day long, but this is what the lady with the mead cup represents. Unfortunately, far too many feel that the act of giving the cup provides the awakening and neglect altogether the preceding steps of defeating ones dragons to become worthy of accepting such a cup. It is never the ceremony which provides the spiritual awakening. It is the state of being the people performing the ceremony are in which make them special.

2. "Hail, day! | Hail, sons of day!

And night and her daughter now! (the daughter of night was Jord or Jorth, the earth and mother

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