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Location: Norra Strandgatan 3, Luleå
Date: 18 January
Time: 13:00
Blót Officiant: Nils Bergström
Assistant: Ragnhild Nord
Contact person: [email protected]
Blót Kindred Vergelmer invites you to Midwinter Blót at Norra hamnen out on the ice in Luleå.
This blót is the second blót that Odin makes in the Ynglinga Saga, which is a blót at midwinter.
According to the pre-Christian calendar, mid-winter was the middle of the winter season, which was in February (today 14 January according to the Gregorian calendar).
The sources refer to hokunótt as being in midwinter and it was hokunótt that started the heathen yule. There are many disputes about whether and when this happened and what the origin was.
But what is certain is that yule was not celebrated on the winter solstice, 24 December or on what is now Lucia.
The Saga of Haakon the Good says that he moved yule from hokunótt (midwinter) to the Christian holiday the birth of christ (which was then 25 December), but here in the North it ended up on 24 December.
It also says that the heathen yule was celebrated for three days.
All participants bring their blót gifts.
Feel free to bring your own drinking horn or drinking vessel, if you do not have it, there will be disposable cups that you can take.
It may be good to be there on time, at 13:45.
We will meet at the gate to Norrbottensteater, thus towards Norra Hamnen to then continue walking together on the ice where the blót table is.
If there is anything you are wondering about, just contact Nils Bergström.
Link to the meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/F3wuUwXKCSLD7CzY7
Link to the location for the blót Gültzauudden:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4B1WpYXKSzdfZHHKA
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