Monday, 10 March 2025

Interview and painting of Survive the Jive by Rory Paints

 

 

This is a fun interview with me in a Celtic roundhouse while the interviewer, Rory, paints a humorous caricature of me. Watch to the end to see the hilarious art.

Thursday, 13 February 2025

Middle Aged Werewolf: Paul Waggener

 

 

Fitness guru, life reform advocate and Heathen community leader Paul Waggener of the Wolves of Vinland joins me on JIVE TALK to discuss how to handle burnout, enduring hardship over time and staying true to your principles as you face the challenges of different stages of life. 

 

Paul's stuff is at OperationWerewolf.com

Monday, 20 January 2025

Ancient Germanic Swastika: Documentary





I have collected tons of archaeological to support my theory of what the fylfot really means. I hope you will agree with my conclusion and that you will find these artefacts and charming and intriguing as I do.

The swastika was used by ancient Germanic peoples such as the Goths, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. But what did it mean? Some say it was a symbol of the sun, some think it was borrowed from the Romans. In this video I explain how the swastika aka fylfot was actually connected to the cult of the god Wotan aka Odin.





Sources

  •  Behrens, F. 2023. Der Tierstil II im Merowingerreich. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981247 
  • Behr, C., ‘Die Beizeichen auf den völkerwanderungszeitlichen Goldbrakteaten.’ Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.] (1991) 
  • Burillo-Cuadrado, Ma & Burillo, Francisco. (2014). The swastika as representation of the sun of helios and mithras. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. 14. 29-36. 
  • Carus. P., “FYLFOT AND SWASTIKA” in The Open court (1887) 
  • Cheesman. C., THE HERALDS’ SWASTIKA (2019) 
  • Godfrey-Faussett, T.G., ‘The Saxon cemetery at Bifrons’ (Kent Archaeology 1876) 
  • Haseloff, Eine ‘jütländische Fibelgruppe und ihre Verwandten’ in “Die germanische Tierornamentik der Völkerwanderungszeit” 1981 
  • Hauck. K., Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit (1985) -Helm. R., ‘Germanischer Schmuck’ (1957) -MacLeod and Mees 'Runic Amulets and Magic Objects' (2006) 
  • Pennick. N., ‘Woden’s Swastika’ in Journal of Geomancy vol. 3 no. 4, July 1979 
  • Sansoni, U., ‘Alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age, a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences’ In Picturing Bronze Age ( Swedish Rock Art Series: volume 3 2015)
  • Renner-Volbach, D., ‘Die durchbrochenen Zierscheiben der Merowingerzeit’ Dorothee Renner. Rom.-German. Zentralmuseum zu Mainz, (1970) 
  • Toreld. A., Andersson. T., hallristning Field report (2012) 
  • Theune-Grosskopf, B., & Nedoma, R. (2008). Chairs in graves of the Migration and Merovingian period mirrored by a new find with rune inscription from Trossingen, Lkr. Tuttlingen. Archaologisches Korrespondenzblatt. 38. 423-436.

Saturday, 28 December 2024

A visual depiction of Britain's genetic history of migrations

 
I worked with graphic designer, JonuxCreative to make a graph showing 12,000 years of South British genetic history. Starting with Western Hunter Gatherers in Blue, then Neolithic farmers in green and Indo-Europeans in orange. The subsequent migrations of Celts, Anglo-Saxons and French people merely reshuffled the quantity of existing ancestral components. Therefore Britain's genetic history is marked by its remarkable continuity.

 




 

Friday, 6 December 2024

Donald Trump's Celtic and Germanic Ancestry



President Donald Trump descends from several Celtic and Germanic tribes from Germany, Britain and Scandinavia. In this video I describe the sources of his ancestry; the Gaels, Vikings Suebi and other warrior peoples who made him a fighter.

Monday, 2 December 2024

Thinking Class: The Genetic Histories & Identities Of The British Peoples



I appeared on the Thinking Class podcast for the interview