Asatru Bibliography

  First chapter. Erchantaug and Gisalhild. In the rosy fragrance of the morning, the Danube rolled its roaring flood of foam through the wooded floodplain, out of whose thicket of trees the boldly jagged cliff head of the Maidenberg towered tall and silent. It seemed to look down contemptuously on the dwarfish, defiant tower of the Roman city of Carnuntum; large and silent like the thought of a spiritual giant above the noise of the everyday world. High-stemmed, broad-branched elms and knotty alder thickets formed the centuries-old floodplain forest along the banks, as on the islands of the many-armed stream: densely intergrown tree crowns were inextricably interwoven through the network of climbing plants. Wild hops, tangled clematis tendrils entangled the branches of the forest giants, from whose leaf clouds colorful flower umbels of the climbing plants nodded down. Like slender pillars, shafts of vines rose up from the swampy ground, which incubated withered undergrowth and ramp...

  To begin Dear reader! It is a peculiar thing about the preface; it is often written not to be read at all by most. But now I have such an excellent opinion of you, best of all readers, that I trust you will read this preface of mine at the very least after the twenty-second chapter. Thereupon be it ventured. My book was like the seed of the vine: it takes a long time until it comes to drinking wine. It was more than twenty years ago. There I first saw those mysterious labyrinths inside the earth, there I first saw those strangely shaped hills. I felt indeterminable, unclear at the sight of them. But I felt powerfully attracted to them, I drew, painted, collected. Later came the realization. Many a learned researcher has since sewn himself to those enigmatic buildings and, with more or less luck, tried to interpret them. Already Friedrich Panzer mentions them in words and pictures in his solid "Contributions to German Mythology", Munich 1848-1855. He was, concerning the inte...

  German Sports Badge for Men Current Hardest Requirements and Descriptions This page will detail the hardest possible requirements, so if you pass these, you can pass any age group. At the bottom, I give the easiest, one-day measurement program in English. Men Endurance:  3K run : Bronze: 17:20, Silver: 15:20, Gold: 13:20. 10K run : Bronze: 62:30, Silver: 56:30, Gold: 50:00. 7.5K Walking : Bronze: 57:00, Silver 53:00, Gold 49:00 800M Swim:  Bronze: 22:10, Silver: 19:30, Gold 16:25 20 km Cycling : Bronze: 46:30, Silver: 42:00, Gold: 37:30  Notes: 3K in 13:20 is quite fast - 4:27 per K, or 7:10 mile pace; 10K Pace per mile is 8:03 ; in America I would change the 3K run to a 2 mile run in the equivalent time of  14:20) Men Strength: Medicine Ball (2kg) Throw: Bronze: 10.5m (34'5"), Silver: 11.25m (36'11"), Gold: 12.00m (39'4") Shot Put (7.26kg/16lbs.): Bronze: 7.75m (25'5"), Silver 8.50m (27'11"), Gold: 9.00m (29'6") Stonetossing (15k...