Celebration of Yuletide centers around two principles: The first of these is that Yule is indeed a tide, or an extended period of several days, and not just a single event occurring on one specific day. More exactly, Yule begins on December 20th, or Mother Night, and continues until January 1st, or Twelfth Night. Each…
Sigrblot, back in the Viking Age, was the sacrifice offered to Odin for victory. Although such a ritual was presumably appropriate whenever needed, it was sureely done in the late springtime or early summer, before the beginning of the annual raiding season.
Last weekend, at Odinshof, we held Sigrblot - not because we were going…