Forwarded from Æhtemen
It’s the Eostremonath full moon tonight – starting the month sacred to our goddess Ēostre, so tonight my family will honour her with a ritual and we’ll toast Friga as well.
In my last post I commented on Survive the Jives video and how the role of Ēostre and Freya overlap. The same can be said of Freya and our English goddess Frige, to some degree. In OE Frige or Frigga would have been pronounced similar to ‘free-yeh’ as the ‘g’ was pronounced like a ‘y’ – her name sounding like Freya. Many Anglo-Saxon heathens use the name Frowe as a name for Freya (to distinguish her from Frige). Frowe is OE for ‘lady’ and is cognate with the German Frau.
Pictured above ‘Spring’ by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
In my last post I commented on Survive the Jives video and how the role of Ēostre and Freya overlap. The same can be said of Freya and our English goddess Frige, to some degree. In OE Frige or Frigga would have been pronounced similar to ‘free-yeh’ as the ‘g’ was pronounced like a ‘y’ – her name sounding like Freya. Many Anglo-Saxon heathens use the name Frowe as a name for Freya (to distinguish her from Frige). Frowe is OE for ‘lady’ and is cognate with the German Frau.
Pictured above ‘Spring’ by Franz Xaver Winterhalter