Comments on: Let’s Spell it Out http://paganpages.org/content/2008/11/lets-spell-it-out-2/ "From Knowledge Grows Acceptance." Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: TwoBirds http://paganpages.org/content/2008/11/lets-spell-it-out-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1042 TwoBirds Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:49:39 +0000 http://paganpages.org/content/?p=442#comment-1042 Some much of "our" craft is being muddied by excatly what I have just read. I have to protest to some of the assumptions made here...Ullr is not the Norse god of all of the following: Justice, Sky, Fertility, Magick, Sea, Beauty or Enchantment. He has never been mentioned as the Death God. For those that read this who want to hear some truth Ullr... Ullr is known for his beauty but it is not an aspect normally associated with him. In fact very little is known of the old understanding of Ullr and most of what is said today is conjured from assumptions of assumptions. What is actually told in the old epics is that he lives in a place called Ydalir (from which the celebration got it's name as it is a holiday to celebrate Ullr.) Ydalir is a glade of yew-trees (from which bows have been made for a long time.) There are numerous mentions in the epics of the strength of making a swear by Ullr's ring. There is also mention of him being able to cross the sea on a magickal bone. The stories say that he ruled in Odin's place for ten years during Odin's exile. Well, maybe you are gathering the truth from this that Ullr is "believed" by scholars to have been a very important God but information on him is fragmented...Also, no stories say anything about him being God-like in anyway with his skis, he is just always depicted that way but the Norse have other Gods to whom transportation is considered a important aspect. To conclude I will properly attribute the things mentioned earlier and implore this website to require the author of this article to re-research and re-submit a corrected article. Justice - Forseti - The name actually means "Chairman" and is the god of Justice Sky - Here I will tell the TRUTH and say I have found no Norse God or Goddess of the sky. But I can site sources to Ullr never being known as such. Fertility - Freyr...This is so obvious and without question Magick - Odin. To have to explain that Odin, not Ullr, is the Norse God of Magick is saying that you have no idea what you are talking about...at all. Sea - Njörðr...Again, no question here he is the god of sea and seafaring. Beauty - Baldr - Odin's son who was slain by Hoor is considered the Norse God of Beauty although I will admit that Ullr is known for his beauty Enchantment - There is no specific God/dess of enchantment in the Norse pantheon and I suspect that this is a word that does not appear in any credible translation of the epics. As I can find no source, I challenge the author of this article to source that Ullr is indeed the God of enchantment as claimed. ...I would like to mention that this sort of disinformation is excatly what drives most people from the faith. A lot of one person says this and another says that. They start to think "I might as well be Christian because at least they agree on who is God and who is not." You have not honored anyone with this poorly researched article. I implore you..please correct it. For your interest perhaps, I find that a hand-made arrow made of natural items is a fitting tribute to Ullr. I do also agree that bread is appropriate for tribute to any deity. Some much of “our” craft is being muddied by excatly what I have just read. I have to protest to some of the assumptions made here…Ullr is not the Norse god of all of the following: Justice, Sky, Fertility, Magick, Sea, Beauty or Enchantment. He has never been mentioned as the Death God. For those that read this who want to hear some truth Ullr… Ullr is known for his beauty but it is not an aspect normally associated with him. In fact very little is known of the old understanding of Ullr and most of what is said today is conjured from assumptions of assumptions. What is actually told in the old epics is that he lives in a place called Ydalir (from which the celebration got it’s name as it is a holiday to celebrate Ullr.) Ydalir is a glade of yew-trees (from which bows have been made for a long time.) There are numerous mentions in the epics of the strength of making a swear by Ullr’s ring. There is also mention of him being able to cross the sea on a magickal bone. The stories say that he ruled in Odin’s place for ten years during Odin’s exile. Well, maybe you are gathering the truth from this that Ullr is “believed” by scholars to have been a very important God but information on him is fragmented…Also, no stories say anything about him being God-like in anyway with his skis, he is just always depicted that way but the Norse have other Gods to whom transportation is considered a important aspect.
To conclude I will properly attribute the things mentioned earlier and implore this website to require the author of this article to re-research and re-submit a corrected article.

Justice – Forseti – The name actually means “Chairman” and is the god of Justice
Sky – Here I will tell the TRUTH and say I have found no Norse God or Goddess of the sky. But I can site sources to Ullr never being known as such.
Fertility – Freyr…This is so obvious and without question
Magick – Odin. To have to explain that Odin, not Ullr, is the Norse God of Magick is saying that you have no idea what you are talking about…at all.
Sea – Njörðr…Again, no question here he is the god of sea and seafaring.
Beauty – Baldr – Odin’s son who was slain by Hoor is considered the Norse God of Beauty although I will admit that Ullr is known for his beauty
Enchantment – There is no specific God/dess of enchantment in the Norse pantheon and I suspect that this is a word that does not appear in any credible translation of the epics. As I can find no source, I challenge the author of this article to source that Ullr is indeed the God of enchantment as claimed.

…I would like to mention that this sort of disinformation is excatly what drives most people from the faith. A lot of one person says this and another says that. They start to think “I might as well be Christian because at least they agree on who is God and who is not.” You have not honored anyone with this poorly researched article. I implore you..please correct it.

For your interest perhaps, I find that a hand-made arrow made of natural items is a fitting tribute to Ullr. I do also agree that bread is appropriate for tribute to any deity.

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