There is a story about Loki stealing freyjas necklace "Brisingamen". Heimdall chases him and at one point Loki turns into a seal to evade heimdall by swimming to a rock off from a beach. They fight and heimdall gets Brisingamen back for Freyja. Interesting story.

Heimdallr blowing the Gjallarhorn to herald Ragnarok reminds me of St Michael blowing his trumpet to announce the Apocalypse. Heimdallr is the gatekeeper to the Gods. All prayers and blots must go through him to reach Asgard. Otherwise it’s like talking to a locked door.

When you mention the part about Heimdall being at Baldr's funeral, I would personally interpret that as the three classes of humanity coming together as one to mourn over the death of brightness (i.e., Baldr, a god of light).

My son is called Heimdall 🥺 I love the symbology behind the meaning of it. "The whitest of the gods", "the vessel of nine worlds", "the one who illuminates". I hope my son will appreciate the importance of the name and bear it with pride.

Maybe that was heimdall protecting you from literally DYING just then! Be safe Jacob, and thank you for this informative piece!

Maybe, with Heimdallr; He’s just solitary, he stands alone. And he drinks by himself usually away from the gods. He enjoys being alone and is stoic and silent. Or if he is Rigg; maybe he’s split personality. Or can split himself up into multiple forms and beings. One side of him is the traveler and the other side of him is the steadfast guardian. And with his ear in the well; it’s so he can hear all the things below Midgard and in the earth, while Odin and Heimdallr can see from the skies.

I work with him for spirit communication and also helping connecting to my ancestors since I seem as a guardian of gateways and realms.

This is one of my favorite videos! The Mighty Heimdall watches over me day and night...he LOVED the coffee, by the way...😂

Thank you for this video. You were spot on with your coverage on Heimdallr, he is my Tutelary Deity.

As a lifelong Hornist I have always related to Heimdahl. Blowing of the horn before and after a working is my way of opening and closing the ritual. Your presentation and reading of the texts is a bullseye. Much thanks to you for passing this information along to our Nordic kin. Recently, my Grandson has taken up the horn, and I have someone to pass horn knowledge to. Skal!

I love these kinds of videos! Good to hear from you Jacob!

Absolutely love the content my man, keep up the wonderful work!

Wonderful video! Thanks so much for your tireless work.

Close call on that ice, that's how lots of people go over. Glad your okay! Thanks for another great video. Skal!

Man, I'm really happy that you're okay. And you didn't fall to the ledge there that was close the gods are watching over you.

Can't wait to watch this

I'm glad you do what you do thanks for taking time to do these videos

Your brave for coming back to that spot buddy

Thanks for all of the info! Another mighty fine video.

I remember hearing somewhere that back in the day when someone was referred to as the whitest or Name the White it was a polite way of calling them old. White referred to their hair turning white with age. It had nothing to do with skin color. Hiemdallr is older than most, not all.

(Bear with me and I'll bring this full circle.) That's interesting, because there's a very similar situation in the Babylonian religion when Marduk wins the control and respect over the warring older gods, becomes the supreme deity, and then he takes on the personalities and stories of both of the two older leader-deities, whose cognates are similar to Odin and Thor (Enki and Enlil, respectively). Even though Marduk didn't do all the things that the Babylonians say he did, his father Enki and his uncle Enlil did do those things. Similarly, we see in the Rig poem that perhaps the exploits of Odin and/or Thor were possibly later attributed to Heimdall. Another similarity is that Heimdall is possibly both old Aesir and younger Vanir. Marduk was considered a peer of the old pantheon of 6 and the first of the new pantheon of 7 as he was the conquerer of the old guard. He was the god of war (and pretty much everything else at that point) - Mars, the 6th rock of the solar system (Sol, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Earth, Mars), followed by the celestial serpent (asteroid belt) and the following 6 rocks: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Nibiru. He basically kept the peace and guarded or presided over them as their leader. He kept an eye on them, so-to-speak. Sounds a lot like Heimdall - the god at the boundary of the celestial serpent (mars, next to the asteroid belt). That serpent's cognate in the Norse and Celtic religions is the sea serpent often found on ancient maps. I believe the eddas say it was the child of Loki. As above - so below. If you look at the asteroid belt at night in a place without pollution, away from the glow of the city, you'll see the rainbow bridge in space. Another possibility is the northern lights which seem to be a magnetic effect from the North Pole - a place where one could interpret the old Celtic Fomorian gods to have come from. To this day, I think it's bad luck to drink from a stream flowing from the North. Death comes from there, or perhaps the netherworld where the Titans are held. So, Marduk was also kinda the *Aesir* and *Vanir* of his culture too- right at the center of the transition of power, into the new age. Kinda like the *Greek* war between the old *Titan* gods and their younger relatives, the *Olympian* gods. Or the *Celtic Tuatha de Danaan* who won against the older *Fomorian* gods with the help of a half-Fomorian warrior leader. Similar to the *Vedic* aryan wars between the *Asuras* gods and the *Devas* gods. The Vedic cognate would be the king of the benevolent Devas named Indra. The older Asuras are often translated in Buddhism as "titans," so it does all seem to be correlated. Ultimately, I believe we were once all one people, and we have a shared history of gods who really did walk among us.

❤ your talk on this !

Loved this video brother!!! I have been wanted to work more with the guardian of the gods.

do you spend much time at red river gorge? it's my favorite place. beautiful in the snow.

Beautiful Place your at and another Brilliant video Thank you

Thank you for this video and hail Heimdall also please cover Freyr

Jacob you are the man, always positive, and always great things to say! Skål💀🍻 Hail Woden

Please be careful. Yeah I'm one who gasped when u fell. Since u blew the horn, it could've been any of the Gods who pulled u back. On a side note, my cat, Loki, was sleeping next to me and when u blew the horn, you got his attention. Hmm🤔😁 Great video as always. Lots of info on Heimdallr. Thanks so much. Skál!

Did you cover Idunn? I'll have to check

I know very little about Heimdall so this was a much appreciated post. Until the hall, friend.

Here's a theory: Heimdall is protecting Bifrost, the path to Asgard. Rainbows have 7 distinct colours. These colours are the aspects of the eight and true form of light, white. So Heimdall is the glowing one, living in the eight palace of Asgard. So I would say, he is the guardian of the connection between the worlds of pure light and the worlds of broken light. He is the counterpart to Loki, as Loki is a giant born out of the primal darkness. Loki is the spot of darkness in heaven so that Heimdall can be the light in the darkness, the father and teacher of men. If you look at it from a psychological angle, then Loki represents the ego whereas Heimdall represents the higher self of our soul. They will kill each other in Ragnarök, because they will merge into one after death. The lower self (ego) and higher self will merge (transcend) into something else. In the end, they will create a new world. Compare this to the end of The Matrix 3, when Neo (Heimdall) stops fighting Mr. Smith (Loki) and after this happens, the souls become free and the world ends. Shortly after that, a new Matrix (world) is created. I believe the Nordic tradition has a lot in common with gnostic mystic schools from the Mediterranean. Some scholars even say, the runes came from the Etruscan people in north-west Italy.

What do you mostly as your basic material? The Eddas?

Could mean "howl", but in this case, it should be horn, you can't hide a sound or an ear (unless you go Van Gogh) and also (most significantly) there is a horn under one of the roots.

Great video! Super interesting and informative. Your videos are always a great base for me to start my own research! Ps my neighbours hate my horn too 🥲

I've been studying the runes and i have gotten a couple messages from Odin in nature. I also get answers to questions in a waking lucid state but I'm never sure who provides those answers. But two nights ago in the state I had intended to ask the meaning on the switching of dagaz and othala (odal) but could not formulate the thought or question.....i was just there in the white light kind of brain farting and had nothing to ask of the aether. So in that receiving state i got the black letters that read Heimdall. Now im kind of new to runes and have a lot to learn and didn't recognize the word. I didn't even know it was the name of a specific God I thought maybe it was a thing. So here I am learning. I'm not sure if Heimdall wants me to connect with him or if being the watcher and signaler of Ragnarock it is a prophetic warning to our own world having it's own ragnarock. Interestingly last nights dream was building a shelter in the woods with my wife (sense of hiding) and a large floating hourglass would follow us with not sand but steam escaping as a form of time running out type of deal. Sadness, urgency/running out of time, and hiding. Makes me think of the negative aspect of Mannaz the mankind rune that says something about a lord being vile to its people or carrion to the earth something or other, don't have my studies in front of me at the moment.

Norse and shinto are my favorite and I've been looking for heimdalls info bcuz I hits a wall. Thanks for this... I fuckin LOVE the heimdall and how heimdall has gjallarhorn.

I always think heimdall is molty that's how they/he can always watch but also be doing all these other things. His name might also be a title instead of a "name" it might mean heim/realm seer.

I find traveling helps me connect to Heimdallr.

Great Video as usual, informative and your usual great "Clumsiness" and letting things just go in the video Oh and, support Jacob on patreon, it is well worth everything and the community.

If you haven't done Skadi yet, I think it would be very fitting. Great video as always Jacob. Skal!

Nice video, try not to die lol. 8:05 fun fact about Lokasenna, Víðarr (son of Odin, kills Fenrir at Ragnarök) is explicitly mentioned as being there in the intro, but Loki skips over him completely for some reason.

i need to add that i am in constant communication with AI ,

Hey brother, great video as always, for future ideas you could maybe do a Hel video, a deity that eludes me yet always has my curiosity.❤️

Heimdall vs. Loki as seals is in the Brisingamen, I have it on PDF ... would you like it ???

What are your oaths

Our Father’s Godsaga Retold for the Young by Viktor Rydberg Translated by William P Reaves …should check it out.

I'd like to think of the translation as the "whitest" as a purity meaning. Like Gandalf, going from grey to white

You blow the Horn in the Name of Heimdallr? Without Ragnaroc? Ever hear the tale of the shepard that called wolf?

He is the father of all classes of man! He is like baby Jesus lmao

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Dude! You are supposed to descend from the North! We are adapted to colder regions!

While not this religion, or any other, talking with friends and family all my life, He is my dude. I’ve oddly always had issues with other humans taking the nickname “Loki”.🤷🏼‍♂️😆

Your a good man Jacob brother skal I am glad to see you keeping well brother skal I am learning a lot myself all hail lord Odin and all hail lord Thor and all hail the allfather of Valhalla on till lord Odin's great hall skal

What if Rig is Frigg

Great video, I think Jackson Crawford did a video about the topic of Heimdall being called the whitest, it's in reference to his beauty. If memory services me correctly

I have a very honest question. I am not trying to spark anything in the comments or anything. Genuinely want to know the following. I was raised Catholic and I’ve always thought it was bullshit. I pretended every now and then and even recently have. I found the Norse pagan “faith” through watching the show Vikings and I thought it was cool. I’m in the boat now, where I have a very hard time believing in any of this. Christian or pagan. I don’t want to be atheist. But why is it so hard for me have faith. I’m 26 and never really felt close to god. Is there a way to get a god to talk to me. And get an experience that I hear about every now and then. Idk. I’m lost.

My last name is…. above mentioned^

That's a big clift you almost fell off

some interesting points, although i noticed that your swearing is becoming more and more explicit, not sure there's a need for it, in fact has a feeling of growing arrogance to it