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Home News About FAQ About Us Position Mission Leadership Administration CIO Clerk Reckoner Ombudsman Shope Bylaws Organizational Chart Programs Clergy Program Lore Program Introduction to the Lore Program Lore Program - Application Lore Program - Bibliography Lore Program - Member Contributions An Introduction to Heathenism Lesson One: The Cosmos of the North Lesson Two: The Gods and Goddesses Lesson Three: Wights Lesson Four: Worship Lesson Five: Troth and Culture Lesson Six: The Soul and Afterlife Lesson Seven: True Folk Lesson Eight: Heathen Esoterica Steward Program Introduction to the Steward Program Work of a Troth Steward Work of the High Steward Policy & Procedure Manual Steward Locator Map Under the Age of 21 Kindred Affiliation Children/Youth Program Kinder Corner Youth Hall In-Reach Prison Services Trothmoot Gallery Resources Lore Program Links Troth Related Links Troth Approved Links In-Reach Program Links Events Publications Idunna Store Shope's Office Troth Authors and Musicians The Cult of Odhinn Contact Us Join Us! Login Lore Program Links The following links are to sites and resources outside of The Troth. The members of the Lore Program have looked them over and find them quite useful. They are organized into rough categories, for your convenience. Introductory Asatru Links Frigga’s Web Asatru-U: http://www.asatru-u.org/beginner/asau-beginner-outline.htm Eplagarth Kindred’s Asatru Study Program: http://www.eplagarthrkindred.org/ Online Courses Murray McGillivray’s Online Old English Course: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/ Old Norse Course: http://www3.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ Proto-Indo-European: An Introduction: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html Spoken Aloud- Resources with Volume Anglo-Saxon Aloud: http://fred.wheatonma.edu/wordpressmu/mdrout Ravencast Online Asatru Podcast: http://ravencast.podbean.com/ Spoken Lore Podcast: http://spokenlore.podbean.com/ Online Book Hoards Alaric’s Elf and Elves in Medieval England: http://www.alarichall.org.uk/phd.php Germanic Lexicon Project: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html Grimm’s Teutonic Mythology: http://books.google.com/books?id=juctAAAAIAAJ Heimskringla: Old Norse Prose and Poetry: http://www.heimskringla.no/enindex.php History of the English Language: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html Old English Thesaurus: http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/aboutoe.html Old Norse Texts: http://etext.old.no/ Saganet: http://www.sagnanet.is/ Viking Society Web Publications: http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/ Online Dictionaries Cleasby-Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary: http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html Cleasby-Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary: http://www.northvegr.org/vigfusson/index002.php Cleasby-Vigfusson’s Icelandic-English Dictionary: http://books.google.com/books?id=B08JAAAAQAAJ Zoega’s Concise Old Icelandic Dictionary: http://www.northvegr.org/zoega/index.php Bosworth and Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm English Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/ Modern Language Association (MLA) Citation Format MLA Citation Style: http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm MLA Handbook: http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/mlastyle.html MLA Research Citation Style: http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html EasyBib Automatic Bibliography Generator: http://www.easybib.com/ A Note on Google Books… Google Books (http://books.google.com/) is an online database of scanned books that are fully searchable. You can use it, for instance, to look for books on X topic, and the search engine will search the *entire text* of each book to find relevant books for you. In the search results, you are provided with a snippet from each retrieved book showing your search terms in context. Most books that are retrieved in this way cannot be read cover-to-cover on Google Books; instead, you're only granted access to the relevant snippet and provided with links to places where the book can be bought. However, there are many older books, no longer protected by copyright, which can be viewed cover-to-cover on Google Books and/or downloaded as a (large) PDF file. Here are a few relevant to Heathenry: Cleasby and Vigfusson's Icelandic English Dictionary (1874): http://books.google.com/books?id=B08JAAAAQAAJ Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume I (1880): http://books.google.com/books?id=neQtAAAAIAAJ Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume II (1883): http://books.google.com/books?id=8ektAAAAIAAJ Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume III (1883): http://books.google.com/books?id=G-8tAAAAIAAJ Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, volume IV (1888): http://books.google.com/books?id=juctAAAAIAAJ To find a specific book on Google Books can be tricky, given the sheer number of books in the database (including multiple copies, from different libraries, of the same book). Using the Advanced Search (http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search) can help with that, as it allows you to search by book title, author, ISBN, etc. If you only want to get books that can be read / downloaded *in full*, then be sure to use the Advanced Search and click the radio button for "Full view only". For example, to find Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, you can search by Author (Grimm), Title (Teutonic Mythology), and with "Full view only" clicked. This approach alone is not perfect, however, as it only lists Volume IV in the initial search results - which is why the Other Editions feature in the book record is so useful. You can find the Other Editions feature in the main PDF display of the book on Google Books - look down the right hand side until you find it. Clicking "show more" there, you will be taken to similar search results, from which, in this case, all of the volumes of Teutonic Mythology can be found.

Ghosti > Breaking The Druids Bread

This odd looking word, *ghos-ti, is the Proto-Indo-European word which refers to the reciprocal relationships of hospitality.

 In fact, the English words "guest" and "host" both come from this root (the * at the beginning of the word just means that it's a word reconstructed by linguists and not attested in literature or archeology). 

Our religion in ADF is based on this idea, that we can form relationships with the Powers by making offerings to Them, with the expectation that we may receive blessings and wisdom from Them in return. Well, we've invented a new use for it!

(From something at AFD web site but did not save reference link. Term is a bit rare today (At least in my readings). Would love new links on it.TDK)

Guest

guest (n.) 

Old English gæst, giest (Anglian gest) "guest; enemy; stranger," the common notion being "stranger," from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (cognates: Old Frisian jest, Dutch gast, German Gast, Gothic gasts "guest," originally "stranger"), from PIE root *ghos-ti- "stranger, guest; host" (cognates: Latin hostis "enemy," hospes "host" -- from *hosti-potis "host, guest," originally "lord of strangers" -- Greek xenos "guest, host, stranger;" Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master"); the root sense, according to Watkins, probably is "someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality," representing "a mutual exchange relationship highly important to ancient Indo-European society." But as strangers are potential enemies as well as guests, the word has a forked path. 

Spelling evolution influenced by Old Norse cognate gestr (the usual sound changes from the Old English word would have yielded Modern English *yest). Phrase be my guest in the sense of "go right ahead" first recorded 1955.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=guest

host (n.1) 

"person who receives guests," late 13c., from Old French hoste "guest, host, hostess, landlord" (12c., Modern French hôte), from Latin hospitem (nominative hospes) "guest, host," literally "lord of strangers," from PIE *ghostis- "stranger" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master;" see guest). The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=host&allowed_in_frame=0

Our Sister Groups and Pages

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07/04/2019

Not all groups show are very active. Some serve as databases for links only.


Some of our newer groups.

Druid's Guide to Herbalism.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ADruidHerbal/

Séansaí séad Saol Eile, Astral Travel Workshop

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AstralTravelWorkshop/learning_content/

DEATH AND SUMMERLANDS, THE UNWOUND COIL

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeathandSummerlands/

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Yggdrasil Library (It has many subgroups)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/YggdrasilLibrary/

One of the more useful ones: Yggdrasil Pagan Researchers Room
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DruidPaganResearch/

How to be a Druid

Our new Ogham/Ogam and Runic Study group. Tons of resources!!!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OgamRunicphonograms/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/howtobeadruid/

Its  Reading Room (The Druid Path) 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheDruidPath/ 

THE VCG

Our Virtual Church and GroveHow to be a Druid Virtual Church and Grove 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowtobeadruidVCG/

Our on going and developing Druid Course (Druid Ley Way Classroom) 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DruidLeyWay/ 

For Bards (Breath of Barhrin) group 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BreathBarhrin/   

Druid Psychics and Seers

Uates Vate and Ovates (Psychics and Seers) Group

Uamh of the Uates > Cave of the Prophets and Seers Fáith Uates Ovates 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/UatesOvatesVates/    

Brehon Druids, old Irish Law

https://www.facebook.com/groups/446687662075663/   

Heathenism

This one include one Dealing with Nordic Gods and Midgard (A Druid in Midgard) and its reading room (A Druid in Midgard Reading Room) 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DruidinMidgard/ 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DruidinMidgardReedingRoom/ 

Pagan Prayers and Altars study. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AltarsPaganPrayers/   

The hard real World (Subway of the Druid Prophets) group https://www.facebook.com/groups/249082958569010/    

Hard Conjure and Spells (HooDoo Vodou DruiDo in the Grove) group 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/HoodooVodouDruidoGrove/  

Special hard to find Conjure things.Cosmic Salamander Inc. Magick Herbs and Rare Things 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MagickHerbsRareThings/  

Our physical Center and Occult Store.

 https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsalamander 

Special hard to find Conjure things.

Cosmic Salamander Inc. Magick Herbs and Rare Things 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MagickHerbsRareThings/ 

The Cosmic Salamander Inc. Candles .

https://www.facebook.com/Cosmicsalamdercandles

The Cosmic Salamander Inc. Crystals Gems Minerals and Stones

https://www.facebook.com/CosmicCrystalsandStones

Pagan Florida Groups and pages. 

Mystical Broward, Dade and Palm Beach County

 https://www.facebook.com/mysticalbrowarddadepalmbeach  

South Florida Pagans Community Moot 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthFloridaPagans/ 

Florida's Pagan Friends 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FloridaPaganFriends/    

My (TDK)  personal Druid group.The Cosmic Salamander Druids Moot and Ley

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/209785052478607/

Meet new Groups People and make new Friends.HooDoo VooDoo Druid Do, Bounce page

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=382805071835057

Watch a God in the making.Lwa Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of Good and Freedom

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LwaBlackPimperne/

Have a need or Fund Raiser ProjectThe Cosmic Salamander Friends Fairy Folk

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FaeFriends/

The Cosmic Salamander Music and Songs

https://www.facebook.com/groups/366194496842014/

Follow the Ley Lines or Dragan Veins

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Leylines/

The Cosmic Salamander Inc. Scrying Moot.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Scrying/

  TDK