Othinn Folk Guide to Survival and Sustainable Living

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"Nature is honest, there is no meanness in her composition, she has no time for fools, there is no place in her code for weaklings and degenerates. Out of her strength we gather our own strength. And it is good to be strong, to be able to endure, not as a brute beast, but as a thinking man imbued with the spirit of a great ideal.

- Frank Smythe

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Viking Farming Methods

Archaeological studies in Denmark have not only uncovered some of the fields where crops were grown, but also traces of some of the agricultural practices that were used.

In Ribe, Denmark for example simple scratching marks have been found in the ground under the Vikings Age town. These scratching marks show that an ard (scratch plough) was used to break the soil loose in preparation for seeding. An ard is a primitive type of plough which cuts a groove through the soil, but does not turn the soil over. Ards were generally in use until late in the Viking Age when a heavier plough with an iron-shod was introduced.

A rare discovery was made at Lindholm Hoje near Aalborg in Northern Jutland in the 1950’s. Archaeologists removed a thick layer of sand which was covering a Viking Age village and cemetery which had been abandoned in the 11th century. Also found was a fossilized Viking Age field which still had slightly curved grooves from its last ploughing some 900 years ago.

Other agricultural implements must have been common on farms, but none have been preserved in any large quantities. Grains and hay were harvested with an iron sickle and vegetation intended for animal feed was cut with a simple knife called a leaf-knife. Pitchforks and spades have been found and they were made of wood. Flails and sieves for threshing and sifting the grains would also likely have been made of wood. Wooden barrels and baskets were used for storage, and hay for animal feed would likely have been transported from the fields on wooden carts.

The Danish Viking villages were surrounded by farming fields, but there was also good access to grazing areas for livestock. The rearing of animals was as important as the cultivation of the soil; it is likely that raising cattle was one of the most important jobs in many villages. Pigs and sheep were also raised by some Vikings.

In modern Sweden and Norway the raising of animals was even more important, and seasonal migrations were practiced in some of the highland areas (as is still the case in some places). Flocks of sheep, goats and cattle were driven up to higher pastures during the summer when grazing was good, and they would be brought back down to the valley farms in the fall. During the harsh winter cattle would be kept indoors and fed with hay which was harvested on the valley pastures during the summer and stored for winter feed.

*source: www.danishnet.com

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I will be honest - it is a little embrassing to admit that I have been an Odinist for over 20 years and have only made a handful of batches of mead.

I plan on putting some real effort into honing my lackluster mead making skills. I have drank some homemade mead made by our Folk that was absolutely wonderful and would love to add that skill to tool box.

If any of you have a recipe you really like please feel free to share.

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I’d like to tell everyone about something that you can use for skin sores and burns. As with many lichens, they are not water soluble so alcohol or oil is the best medium when drawing out the medicinal properties.
This is the usnea lichen- All species of usnea contain usnic acid which is reported to be more effective than penicillin in the treatment of external wounds and burns. I use usnea as one of the ingredients in my homemade skin salves and have had very satisfactory results. usnea can be used in a powder form directly on wounds as an antibiotic as well.
I dry store it as well as have it in salve.

Basic Mild Usnea Oil
1 teaspoon dreid usnea powder 1⁄4 cup olive oil
Preheat oven to 200° F.
Using a pair of sterilized kitchen scissors, clip dried usnea thalli into tiny pieces.
Grind them to fine powder in a mortar.
Place 1 teaspoon of the powder into a sterilized baby food jar and stir.
Set the jar on a cookie sheet and place in the oven. Bake for three hours, stirring occasionally. Remove from oven and add Vitamin E as a preservative.

The oil you just made can be made into salve by dissolving in a small amount of shaved beeswax. To make a stronger oil, uses equal parts of usnea and oil.

-L

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