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I do understand what you mean about wearing a hammer to solely advertise your religion. I just feel that this is a broad generalization. Most people do not recognize what my hammer even is where I live, let alone connect it with paganism. I wear it and any tattoos I have for my own personal benefit. For example, the hammer to me means so much more than it would to a regular person. It is not for them as much to remind me of my roots and to remind myself what I stand for. I know that I should always uphold my standards and morals, but the honest truth is, at times I slip. I feel that by knowing what it means to me and carrying it keeps me more mindful. I also find comfort in times of distress when I see it and remember my own strength. I do respect your opinion and choice.

I forged my Mjolnir pendant myself out of a bolt. It's simple and rugged. I believe that better represents Thor and the values associated with him, as opposed to a large, ornate pendant made of precious metal.

My friend, if you have not considered or done it already you should write a book! I would gladly support you and would love to read it!! Thank you for the vast amount of information you have shared with us!!

It’s great to axe about the hammer. Nailed it 😀

My youngest son was named Thor because I felt the god had called him out of my body early. His father is Swedish and we were going to name him Bjorn Thor. But in the early stages of labor a bolt of lightning struck so close to the house that the sound and the flash were simultaneous. My labor suddenly speeded up. To this day I know Thor called my son out to this world. He was premature and I had to fight to birth him. I feel Thor helped me get him safely born. Just one of those stories but maybe you find it interesting. Tack sa mycket.

Another great video Arith! I wear my Mjollnir with pride everyday. Greetings from Australia

Your really helping learn and understand my heritage. Thanks Brother. Jorgensen

A tear came down my eye the second he put mjolnir around his neck. I was so happy 🙏

It's been a while I haven't visited your channel. I love this video. I'm not Scandinavian but I love the Norse Pantheon. Although I'm not European nor worship any gods I have a Mjolnir pendant underneath my clothes. The reason I have it it's because what Thor (Donar) stands for and means to me. I do understand what Mjolnir is but I have it around my neck as a reminder of what according to the sagas what Thor also is: a warrior, protector, thkngs I can learn and apply in life. I have many archetypes from few other pantheons and from the norse pantheon(Odinn, Thor, among many others from others like Fenrirsulf) from which they're my inspiration to face life's hardship, protect my day and live by my moral code I learn from the Havammal. Many may criticize me for this but I don't care. These archetypes helped me to stand firm against many things I have faced in life.

I like your bit about religion at the end. It is on the inside, and others opinion is irrelevant. I agree with you

You have been pumping out videos lately and they are pure amazingness! Thanks

Nice one Arith, the Thunderer has been a companion since early childhood for me and I very much enjoyed this. Well done to cover so much, in such a short video, yet still be clear and informative. Thanks.

Arith! I have recently found your videos and am overloading on information. Thank you 😊

Lightning is an important symbol cos it represents sudden illumination, enlightenment.

You often see in North America in Virginia in archaic sites axes and hammers thrown down as an offering in the headwaters of streams buried in mounds along sides of these streams. These sites lightning strikes around them often. What’s interesting is that the Native American tribes of this area talked about dealings with the moon eyed people. Who were shorter, white skinned, bearded peoples who didn’t see well during the day.

This is your best video yet. Thank you for making it.

I'm very pleased to have found your channel Arith. Over the 20 days, I've been drawing a single rune from my new (and very first rune set, then looking up the rune in this excellent book titled NORDIC RUNES b y Paul Rhys Mountfort. Watching your rune videos really add fun to the process of getting acquainted with them. Thanks! :-)

Wow this was SUCH a good video. I particularly enjoyed when you talked about how Thor may have been a much older (club welding) deity. And the other day you spoke about how Odin was likely a much older god - very VERY interesting stuff. Thanks for all your hard work and research- I appreciate these videos so much.

As always your video's are very educational. You are a good man.

Mjollnir bears a lot of interesting similarities to the Sumerian Sharur "smasher of thousands" which was the magical mace (or sometimes depicted as an axe) of the thunder, farming, hunting and war god Ninurta, son of the wind god Enlil.

Hi Arith.🤚🏼The Mjölnir I'm wearing is very primitive indeed. It is heavy, plain black and made of solid iron. No engravings or frills...

Thank you again, Arith!

Good lecture! Even as southernly as The Netherlands we used to know the 'Dondersteen' ('Thunder ' Stone') or 'Donderkeil' (idem, compare with the Swedish 'Tórkill'). These also were fossil Belemnites or neolithic stone axes and 'axe-hammers' who were supposed to be remnants of lightning preserved in the earth. They were kept by farmers in the rafters of their farmstead to prevent lightning from striking. The oldest known 'Donderkeil' is a reliquary from the early middle ages that was supposedly usef to bust the head of saint Boniface in Dokkum in 753 of the common era. The object turned up in the monastery in Werden in the 10th century and can still be seen today.

This was a very interesting presentation, I had not been aware of the evolution to the hammer from the ax. I cannot help but note that the Stone Age petroglyphic figures that you showed appear to be wielding more than just axes!

thank yew arith. take care

In modern English, 'to mill' means to crush or grind, as in 'to mill grain into flour'. Mjöllnir (crusher, grinder) could be directly translated as Miller - also a common English surname that means a man who owns a grain mill

Or maybe they weren't thunderbolts, but were actually meteorites that placed iron meteors onto the Earth and the blacksmiths used the metal "from heaven" to form great weapons from an unknown location.

Arith, beating the metal, as you've said with a hummer is workable with either copper or iron. There is no way you can forge bronze. The bronze weapons were produced by pouring liquid metal into a clay or stone molds and letting them cool down. A "sward in the stone" to be pulled out by a hero, might be just an echo of the Bronze Age production technology. Most likely the rare cases of meteorite iron smithing created a firm link to Mjolnir.

That was very good and informative. I especially liked hearing about how u personally believe. I don’t believe I’ve gotten to it yet but I’d like to hear more about Yggdrasil.

I believe that your resourceful, knowledgeable, strong mind and soul itself has become a Mjollnir, Arith. Thank you for the video.

Love your videos

Hello from West Virginia I Injoyed lessening Thank you

Great video. Thanks from south Texas!

as always Arith it was a very interesting and informative talk .... can I ask you to one day do a video on the symbol of the serpent throughout the world .... I know you are a busy man .... but i look forward to you finding time for this in the future .... many thanks !

Favorite story is when Þór dresses as a woman to save Mjollnir Edit: fun fact: An old symbol for both Zeus and Marduk (greek and sumerian/babylonian respectively) was a dual bladed axe. Both were also associated with? Yep, lightning. Though, marduk was a storm god while zeus was a sky God.

Think about this. In much of the modern world our Thursday day of the week is Thors day. Our link to the past never escapes us. Quite humbling. Great video.

Grazie dall' Italia per questa spiegazione molto interessante, esposta molto bene ! 💙🙏🏻

The crushing/grinding element of Mjölner is quite interesting also since "flour" in modern day swedish is "mjöl"

Mate, thanks for your hard work, should make a video regarding the relations between Nordic traditions and Slavic ones :D

Awsome video! Maybe Mijolnir esotericaly symbolizes the Divine principle of the force that creates being the same force that destroys. And to acknowledge and celebrate endless meanings inferred from this 'divine' truth. It also kinda symbolises the development and change of all things, being the consequence of the above stated 'truth', as seen with how Mijolnir maintains its first meaning while gaining more through the paradigm it symbolises the principle of.

Great video. where can I find out more about clubs being used by the cult of thor?

Glad to see that you survived the archeological dig landslide :D Did you manage to recover that metal artifact that was keeping the hillside from collapsing? :D

So good.

This is so cool. Just last week I pulled some 4x4 posts out of the ground, and had to get the concrete off the bottom so I could use them for something else. So I was like, well, I guess I'll go get Mjollnir lol. (Really just a sledge hammer) on the same day I used my axe to chop up some wood. Guess I'm living like a true Viking woman lol

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Another fantastic video Thank you Arith! I agree with you 100%! I think I'm the only pegan I know that doesn't have a tattoo. My spirituality is in my head and in my heart. Not that I'm afraid to let people know, I just don't feel the need. ✌️🇨🇦🤩

Few things, .. 1.) Scotland highlands has a green stone that is hard as iron, and there are stone age hammers made from that given type of stone. 2.) Two section wooden war club. The curve head shape of Mjollnir has a longer impact surface to connet to bodies and shields. Also from being a child growing up in the country beating sticks against trees just to see what different types of sound the types of wood has. A curved wooden hammer sounds a bit like thunder when hit against a tree or shield. 3.) Why no one used a war hammer ? Why risk Thor's displease.

I'd be curious to know more about how lightening can unearth artifacts. Do you have any examples or case studies we could look at?

In my studies, I've found links to Vishnu (preserver) and Thor, which seems to go along with this video. Vishnu also carries a "mace" or gada, which is rounder than the hammer - but seems to serve a similar crushing function as a weapon.

Arith, I was wondering if you may have some insight on the Ulfberht Swords of the Viking and post Viking era. Predominately if these weapons/swords were reserved for upper crust ceremony and symbology or were they sought after by the warrior class for their resilience and longevity. From what I have found, Ulfberht is the name of a blacksmith that may have harvested his steel from the Persian regions and utilized similar metallurgy blends and techniques. Additionally the name was often copied, similarly to Stradivarius violins as an example. The name was placed on lesser quality weapons simply to fetch a higher price. Any information you may have would be greatly appreciated by me and others as well. I have always had a suspicion that the Ulfberht is of Nordic descent as the examples we have bear the typical wide blade, centered blood groove, arched guard and oblong pommel/counter balance that is indicative of most Norse sword examples. As always, I feel spoiled having your videos and information to refer to. You are offering a service that could never be labeled with a price,... thus it is priceless. I certainly do appreciate it, as well as others, I am sure. Thank you!

My mjollnir never leaves my neck. I've sworn an oath of strength before Thunder and my ancestors and have consecrated it with my sweat.

Hail mighty Thor and let Asgard be praised Always ⚡⚒🌩

I've been curious, do you think you'll ever do a video on Gullveig? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on her.

the clubs, around the necks were in the Frisian Museum in the capital ljouwert, Then I didnt know what to make of it now I do.

I find mine to offer tangable piece of strength through my day and in my job. The weather is alway thundering and lighting here and seem approprite

If we back on time through the viking periods. You were a poet. Your knowledge sound like magick

I'm so blown away by your videos. And I want that hammer or one like it. I really like the old primitive look.

In spanish the word for Mill is Molino, its remarcable how similar it can be to a word so far to the north.

There is a war hammer in the Sutton Hoo boat burial dated mid 600’s BC

I had Thor/ Mjolner many time in my dreams, it started with a voice, who I knew it was Thor/Tonger in Frisian. The second time lightning in my dreams. A few times I used Mjolner in my dreams. Now I am concentrating more on ING/Frey, the surname of my mothers father was Boing, son/spear of Frey. His name was Atte, judge, I was named after him.

I must have missed this last year, maybe I was away or in hospital or something? Anyhoo I caught up now. Thunderbolt and lightening, vet very frightning me! I wonder if Scaramouche evr did that bloody fandango? I thought the Celtic god of fertility was Cerunnos? Do you think that the hammer weilding god may be the origin of Weyland The smith?

What about the relation to the Finnish deity Ukko who has an axe/hammer combination tool as a symbol?

Ahhh now I understand why we say Donderdag in Afrikaans instead of Thursday. Because Thor was called Donar...Also thunder is called donderweer...this stuff is so interesting.

I made my own Mjolnir as a practical object and necessity. Mine is made of pure copper and weighs precisely one ounce. I haven't etched nor engraved nor stamped any designs into it, though I certainly could. I made it this way for several sound reasons. One, it is one ounce so that it could be used as a coin. So long as I have it, I will never be broke! Two, it is made of pure copper and copper is anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and anti-viral. Copper kills most germs in a matter of minutes. It even kills Covid-19 in approximately four hours thirty minutes. I've designed my Mjolnir with a long, slender handle which is sanded down to super-smooth 600 grit sandpaper. When I feel that familiar tingle in my nose--a cold coming on--I grab my copper and put it in my nostrils for a few minutes and kill the bug. I don't get colds anymore. It works the same with a cough. As soon as my throat starts to itch and tingle, I put my copper in my mouth, the Mjolnir handle all the way to the back of my throat--and whatever bacteria, virus, or microbe is in there wreaking havoc on me is killed quick! I can also take my copper in my hands and rub it all over them to sanitize when I am not near soap and hot running water. Similar medical copper devices cost as much as forty dollars and more. I made mine for free from a piece of scrap copper I scavenged while at work. There is no difference between the copper they use and I use. Copper is copper. It is not a precious metal. It is a base metal and the most used and most important metal. Lastly, I made my own Mjolnir because I am a do-it-yourselfer kind of guy, a tactical guy--and I like to wage war on the enemies of good health and well being! Death to viruses and bacteria! Break them! Crush them! And lastly, I made my own Mjolnir just because I like it and made all my friends jealous! You can make your own similar Mjolnir or device from copper, bronze or brass. Bronze is copper mixed with tin. Brass is copper mixed with zinc. All three metals have the same germ killing/breaking/pulverizing properties. So choose your favorite and make one today! Cheers! Hail! Here's to your good health and fortune!

Additional in German: Grind = mahlen Crush = (zer)malmen

Mmmm. With the idea of grinding into powder, does it have anything to do with say a mortar and pestle?

Praise be to the Gods and Goddesses of Asgard! Freya give me your blessings! Thor, give me your strength! Ullr, may you make my hunt prosperous! Idunna, guide my hands that my harvest be fertile!

Not sure if you are aware of the growing Germanic tradition out of the PA Dutch community called Urglaawe. Thor or Dunner is a heavily tied to fertility in it. He is now from May 1 to May 12 (Mother's Day) is fighting off the Frost Giants so planting can begin. My Mjollnir is made from an old iron nail so it's very rustic. I like the plain ones to. Thank you for another great video.

When lightning strikes sand it turns it to glass

I had been thinking about Mjollnir for some time when this video popped up. I like the idea that in mythology differerent gods could be combined into a 'new divinity'. But what about weapons being combined? I think Nordic mythology has an echo of the end of the ice-age, and didn't Thor defeat an Ice-giant? But what stone age weapon would be suitable to beat an Ice giant? I think I would choose a sling. I think Thor took the milling stones from his wife to defeat the Ice giant- and every stone hit the giant like a hammer. As a reward the dwarves made him a hammer so he wouldn't have to use his wives milling stones . Defeating the Ice giant made the land usable for agriculture- so then the giant slayer became a God of agriculture.

As a black man in diaspora who worships the Òrìṣà through a metaphilosofical ancient doctrine, its interesting to see white people also looking up to their ancestors and seeking connection as well. Christianity my balls.

I would also like to point out as a romano-celtic pagan. Taranucos, the Gallic god associated with Jupiter did use a hammer or mace. This is likely a closer connection to Thor than Succellos considering Succellos is mainly associated with fertility due to being god of the underworld a realm beneath the earth

Do you have any info on the original Arab story that The Lay of Thrym is based off of?

Have you heard about Xangô? It is a Orixá worshiped in Candomblé and others religions from a Africa in Brazil. Xangô is a natural force, like a God, who represents the thunder. Its symbol is two axes. And Xangô is a kind of god of justice and order. Thank you for more one great video!

It's a good day, when you get a notification about a new Arith Härger video....happy days! Calls for some good mjö.....coffee! Btw, where's your pal? 😉😆😂

I do my own studying about the connection between Norse mythos and Egyptian mythos, and was looking at the ankh as the hammeraxe. The tip being a scimitar shaped blade and the hammer being the rest of the ankh. Do you reply to comments?

I have to ask do you live in sweden?

Interesting presentation. Your report does not differ significantly from what I've read in the literature. I enjoy that if you trace it back far enough, the distinction between the hammer and the axe gets muddled or disappears. To stone tool makers, to have an axe is to have a hammer, after all, which shows the deep age of it. My one nitpick would be that you associated the equal-armed "solar cross" with christian influence. That symbol (sometimes encircled) predates christianity and is equivalent to the "medicine wheel" of North America and similar in the circumpolar tradition and Asia. It is shamanistic, not specifically christian, and is still used among certain tribes and families in that way.

Woensdag Wodan. Donderdag Donder (meaning thunder) Thor. Vrijdag Freya. Zaterdag Snjoen (frysian) Evening of the sun. Zondag (Sowulo) Day of the sun. Some days of the week in the Netherlands still have the old symbolic meanings of the nords in them somewhere.

Did those stones found in the ground connected to lightning include fossilised belmenite guards?

So Mjollnir means to grind, yet no connection with Sif (Thor's wife) being the goddess of grains/cereal crops? I kept expecting that to come up during the video Great video as always Arith, you are very much appreciated

In Welsh mwrthwl means hammer, torri means to break, taro means to hit and taran means thunder.

Great vid!...need hammers...Anyway a question... did ancient Scandinavians believe in parallel realities/universes while still alive?

The mjollnir pendant is a copy of the Christian cross pendant, used for a short time until the Scandinavians converted.

u can add slavic/russian: молоть/molotj (grind) and молот/molot (hammer) молить/molotj (pray) & there is to mention that old slavic god Perun is depicted with a club and Svarog is depicted with a hammer as a (world)smith ...

I have always heard that humans were "not" sacrificed to Thor. That's why he was so popular with the common people...

Thor's connections to fertility might justify a nice amount of crude jokes a series of authors made on his hammer 😆 very interesting video, clear and well explained, I really enjoyed the comparison with other gods and the small ethimological explaination. About the personal part, the one in which you state the unnecessity of wearing symbols, I couldn't agree more...by the way, it's always better to wear symbols that you deeply understand, and it's not always easy with the ancient ones, we might lack some crucial informations, having then difficulties in using and/or directing the energies that the symbol itself creates...

Mjölnir, Skidbladnir, Gungnir were made by dwarfs. Can you do a video on non god creatures like dwarfs, giants, and elfs?

“And my (s)axe!” 🎷

I have anotehr conenction: What if said weapon is actually a pickaxe? A pickaxe, that was used to mine iron ore.. which was used to create effective weapons of war.

How tf are you gonna start playing Danheim and not expect me to jam to it

The Gothic word "malwajan" is believed to give the root to the name of the Amali (Amals) Ostra-gothic dynasty. The conflict between Ermanaric of Amals and his Rus bride Sunilda (Swanhild) had started the Great Nations migration in Eurasia.

5:22 that's a flute or a horn

Having Swedish and Greek heritage I appreciate the similarities

Of all the channels I’ve found about nordic/scandinavian mythology and history, you’re the only one that hasn’t slipped some gross white supremacist sentiment or talking-points into their videos at some point, so thank you for being a good dude!

Stone age artifacts in later layers, interesting. Makes me wonder if some ancient tools became family heirlooms.

Ah! My Wednesday morning ritual of watching your video is done. Does Mr T wear an amulet? Arith do you still do outtake videos? If you have a younger following then you need a bleep button for your outtakes as the suave, sophisticated gentlemanly image is gone out of the window :p

Arith Are there any twin's in Norse Mythology??