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The Basic Myth
If there is one great pagan theme it is that of the universally popular Mother and Child myth. It is often coupled with that of the twin brothers who contend for mastery and rule turn and turn about. These themes are present with others in the great literature of myth, Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, Hindu and other more widespread and primitive sources: even Grimms' Fairy Tales have this mythic element and reflect the beliefs of earlier North European cultures. The elements of these basic myths, particularly the two mentioned above have been brilliantly set out by Robert Graves in his work, The White Goddess. An even larger canvas is painted by Joseph Campbell in his monumental work, The Masks of God. Both works repay careful study by any inquiring pagan.
Basically then, the whole universe is seen as the domain and being of the Great Goddess, who has brought everything forth and is Herself everything including the Gods. Contemporary cosmology has arrived at a similar situation in its consideration of the singularity that brought forth the universe. The idea is not new and is akin to the Hindu view of its genesis and apparent duration, which they call a 'kalpa'. The Hindus further suggest that at the end of each kalpa the universe renews itself in another expansion, another contraction follows, and the process repeats itself endlessly.
However that may be, we have to consider Her basic manifestations. She is in turn Maiden, Mother, and lastly Crone. The three phases of the moon are Hers; the new, the full, the old. Indeed all triads and nenneads are Hers. She has also brought forth Her counterpart, the God. He manifests himself in multiple series of twos. Basic are His two aspects: one as the God of the Waxing Year, and the other as God of the Waning year. He can manifest in quadruple or octuple and so on endlessly. The Goddess, as seen, can be considered as multiples of three. Any consideration of these multiples will lead to the rapid realisation that between them they make up all the matter seen and unseen in the entire universe.
In our myth, and I stress it is kept at its simplest, the Goddess gives birth to the Star Child who rapidly grows as God of the Waxing Year. At Midsummer, He, ritually, is removed, and His place is taken by the God of the Waning Year. So the Gods rule turn and turn about, though they are still the one and same God. This idea is expressed in Celtic art where a three headed sculpture stands for the God and His two aspects.
These are our basic opposites. The light and the dark. The light of the intellect contrasting with the darkness of our unconscious. Life and Death. We make most of our unthinking judgements by opposites, accepting the one, rejecting the other; but as we shall see these opposites can be resolved in the mysteries of myth and the enactment of ritual. Later with a small amount of elaboration the themes develop in interest and significance.
We can also look upon our festivals as acts in a play. To come alive they have to be performed. Each of our festivals is a play within a play. Each one has its own dramatic flavour. There is the happy ending; the melodrama; the comedy and the tragedy, and the final play of the Hallows, with its dance of death. As at the production of any drama, each play breeds its own atmosphere and contributes to the ethos of the greater play that contains it. Its life lives in the performance and from that performance conveys the annual drama of which we are actors and audience. The cast list is enormous and capable of endless elaboration, but our first consideration must be to the names we assign to the principals.
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Jul 16 2008
Thomas Merton – In Silence
In Silence
by Thomas Merton
Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
to speak your
to the living walls.
Who are you?
are you? Whose
silence are you?
Who (be quiet)
are you (as these stones
are quiet). Do not
think of what you are
still less of
what you may one day be.
be what you are (but who?)
be the unthinkable one
you do not know.
O be still, while
you are still alive,
and all things live around you
speaking (I do not hear)
to your own being,
speaking by the unknown
that is in you and in themselves.
"I will try, like them
to be my own silence:
and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire. The stones
burn, even the stones they burn me.
How can a man be still or
listen to all things burning?
How can he dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?"
/ Photo by icelight /
Although I've found this poem posted on several websites on the Internet, I haven't been able to track down the book it was originally published in. And most of my books are neatly packed up in boxes at the moment. Does anyone happen to know which book this poem can be found in?
Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Or should we just say it is found in silence?
I love the questions that impregnate this poem.
Be silent, they try
to speak your
Does your name have any inherent meaning?
Are you your name?
When people call your name, are they calling you, or some idea of you?
If you are not your name, what is the purpose of a name?
If you are not your name, what then do you call yourself?
to the living walls.
Who are you?
are you? Whose
silence are you?
This is more than a question, really, almost an insistent demand: Who are you? Who are you?
But the question isn't tossed to the busy, thinking mind, which has a thousand quick answers. Merton insists on silence. Remove the background of environment, society, relationship, even thoughts about yourself. THEN ask the question, Who are you? WHO are you?
Who (be quiet)
are you (as these stones
are quiet).
In that open silence, the question shifts and morphs. WHAT are you?
Perhaps you are someone else's dream…?
Or someone else's silence…?
Are you separate from the silence?
Do you even exist in that emptiness?
Have you simply imagined yourself?
Can you re-imagine yourself?
HOW would you re-imagine yourself?
be what you are (but who?)
be the unthinkable one
you do not know.
Who (be quiet) are you?
O be still, while
you are still alive,
and all things live around you
speaking (I do not hear)
to your own being,
speaking by the unknown
that is in you and in themselves.
Merton suggests that there is a grand, universal dialog occurring all around us — in that overlooked silence. Everything is alive, and flowing through that life is a silence, and that silence is speaking to us.
You say you do not hear. But be silent, be quiet, be still. And you will realize that you are already part of the conversation.
"I will try, like them
to be my own silence:
Yes! BE your own silence!
To be filled with noise is to be distracted from you own self. To recognize your own silence, to be comfortable with it, to BE it — that requires nothing less than to be at ease with your heart and to rest like royalty there.
…and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire.
The whole world burns with this stillness. There is a light and a dancing life hidden in the silence.
How can a man be still or
listen to all things burning?
How can he dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?"
And that silent fire can be overwhelming, frightening, for it consumes everything, including one's ego and one's name. So how can a man be still in the midst of such a conflagration?
The bold dare the flames anyway…
|Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton is a Catholic monk and mystic who, perhaps more than anyone else in the 20th century, is associated with opening up a dialog between the spiritual traditions of East and West. He himself studied many Eastern spiritual practices deeply, particularly Zen Buddhist meditation and philosophy.
He is best known today for his essays on the spiritual life, especially his first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, but he was also a gifted poet. Many of his later poems reflect his own mystical awakening.
13 Responses to "Thomas Merton – In Silence"
# michael firewalkeron 16 Jul 2008 at 5:51 am
what a powerhouse poem this is!…and needful, at least for michael…your gifts to us always inspire, and more than that, they leave us feeling free to express our full and honest responses to what you have shared…however, that has gotten michael into a lot of trouble over the last couple of days…so I have really had to search my heart over it…
in this poem, Thomas Merton says we must know ourselves in the stillness of our silence…regarding your presentation "From my youth I piled studies upon studies", michael expressed a concern which was interpreted by nari as a manifestation of michael's spiritual ego…this troubled michael some, as he would ever intend to offend either Ivan or nari with his ego in any way…
after the heart search, in the silence of which you and Thomas Merton speak, the original concern michael had remained as just it initially was, which is that it might be a good thing to add a bit more emphasis, for the purpose of balance, on the reasons why we do study sacred scripture…and even though you had already emphasized that, michael felt to add the fact that Life itself actually lives inside the sacred words we read, and therefore we do need to study them, as you said we do, in order that we might receive that eternal Life from them…that was all michael was trying to do, which seems exactly what you are asking for when you ask us to offer a response to your inspirational thoughts…
but, if I offended you, I am deeply sorry for that…with you, I do not feel guarded and fearful to speak my mind…you always feel free inside michael's heart, and so he responded freely…
am going to search out some Thomas Merton books now…
thank you for your patient listening, dear Ivan,
# Mary Jeanneon 16 Jul 2008 at 8:23 am
Hope you are feeling better, Ivan. Also hope you are well enough to continue working on your book. You are working on a book, right?
# salamon 16 Jul 2008 at 8:05 pm
My dear Ivan,
Silence,has the power to move the mountains.stillness has the power to shake the universe.
Its always the antidote,its honey.cure to poison.
I, my name, who am i,are just lost when one stands on the other side of the, breath.
Long back my Murshid told me.It was the silence of Shamas & RUMI which rest could not under stand and killed the SHAMS.Is SHAMS dead NO.Rest live no more,but Rumi gave breath to SHAMS.So they are alive Two candles(flames) & two(many) names with one light.
# chisengaon 17 Jul 2008 at 12:44 am
If I recall correct, the poem is from Merton's 1957 poetry book, "The strange island". Thanks for sending and sharing…
to also say a few words, reading the poem am re-minded of what's been on my heart lately. Nothing extraordinary so to speak, just those ordinary words: 'I am,' and how so much stillness is held within them. I am. Who am I, really? Chisenga? whose beneath the me, the name? self? the personality? whats the secret behind the distinct? beyond the realm of I am this I am that? who is thinking of 'this' and the 'that', to connect the I am to, with?
I am that I am….I am confused now ah
# Ivan M. Grangeron 17 Jul 2008 at 8:41 am
Chisenga — thank you. I've gotten a few emails saying the same thing, that the poem appears in "The Strange Island." It may also have been reprinted in a few later collections, but I haven't been able to verify that yet. (The Poetry Chaikhana community is better than Google — send out a question and get knowledgeable answers from all over the globe!)
# Ivan M. Grangeron 17 Jul 2008 at 8:43 am
Someone pointed out the appropriate timing of posting this poem — on the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, toward whom Merton felt a great devotion.
i stopped doing poetry
this great one said this
this one said that
so what !
more words
nice words of little value
the voice of the birds song
just looking for
now this is something of value *
bob knab
# Ivan M. Grangeron 22 Jul 2008 at 3:15 pm
any purpose to birdsong?
but to feel the breast expand
and fill the silence
with melody
It seems to inspire,
Lines of the sanctus,
Like ageless beauty,
Like a cadence of silence,
As it bears upon my mind.
My gratitude to the poems you have posted. It is beautiful.
Ivan, I found your blog when looking for this poem, which is possibly my favorite Merton poem. Your comments on it are lovely, as well, so I was wondering if I could post a link to this blog on mine?
# Ivan M. Grangeron 11 Mar 2009 at 2:28 pm
Yes, please feel free to link to the Poetry Chaikhana blog any time you think it will interest visitors to your own site.
Thank you, Ivan!
# Jim Atwellon 12 Mar 2009 at 6:50 am
In silence I find myself
In silence I existed before I could speak my name.
In silence I was alone.
And then I breathed the breath of silence and became.
Now I call to myself with the language of a quiet breath.
Love I am calling.
You need not answer for I am the silence of your song.
Much Love
Jim Atwell


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November 2011
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Two PhD scholarships in 'Hydrological Forecasting and Data Assimilation'
The Committee for Sustainable Energy and Environment under the Danish Strategic Research Council has recently funded the project HydroCast - Hydrological forecasting and data assimilation. The project is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional project and involves the following partners: DHI, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), University of Copenhagen, Aalborg University, Danish Meteorological Institute, European Center for Medium-Range Weather, Delft University, Danish Road Directorate, Knowledge Center for Agriculture, and Danish Nature Agency. The project leader is Dr. Henrik Madsen from DHI.
Applications are invited for two PhD scholarship openings within the following subject areas:
(1) Hydrological data assimilation
Development of a multi-variate hydrological data assimilation system for assimilation of in situ and remote sensing data in the MIKE SHE hydrological modeling system. Application of the Open Source OpenDA data assimilation toolbox, which an interface standard for implementation of data assimilation in numerical models, may be considered. The link to MIKE SHE may be established through the open modelling interface (OpenMI) standard leading to a flexible framework for implementation and testing of different data assimilation algorithms and assimilation of different types of hydrological data in MIKE SHE. Variables of interest for assimilation are in-situ measurements of river runoff, groundwater levels, and soil moisture profiles and remote sensing measurements of soil moisture and land surface temperature. Another research topic of the PhD project is uncertainty in models and measurements and how this is propagated to uncertainty in the hydrological predictions. The hydrological data assimilation system will be applied and tested at a local highway construction site near Silkeborg and in the Skjern catchment.
(2) Probabilistic hydrological forecasting
Development of a methodology for producing probabilistic hydrological forecasts, considering short-range, medium-range and seasonal forecasting. The following ensemble Quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) products are considered:
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Investigators have taken pictures of the head to an artist who will work on a composite drawing, Trupe said.
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Investigators and search dogs combed through tons of waste and debris at the city landfill last week after a city worker found the badly damaged head in the hopper of a garbage truck last week.
That extensive search yielded no body or body parts, and retracing the truck's route through northeast Amarillo also didn't produce anything.
Investigators will put out a teletype to law enforcement across surrounding states seeking information and asking if any other body parts have been found elsewhere, Trupe said.
Investigators also still don't have enough information to justify ruling the discovery a homicide, he said.
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Without a body to attach it to, that call may never be determined, he said.
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Garrowby is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) north of Pocklington town centre. It lies to the north of the A166 road[1] and forms part of the civil parish of Kirby Underdale.
Garrowby Hill is the summit of Bishop Wilton Wold which is the highest point of the Yorkshire Wolds. It is the subject of a 1998 painting by David Hockney.[2]
Garrowby Hall is a country house which stands in a 13,500 acre estate and is home to the Earl and Countess of Halifax. The Wood family (the Earls of Halifax) have lived there for some 200 years. It was remodelled in 1980 by Francis Johnson.
- ^ "Garrowby Hill - OS Explore". explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
- ^ "Garrowby Hill". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- Gazetteer – A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 6.
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Note on the Reliability of this Genealogical Lineage
Is it possible that this genealogical link of the Kings of Denmark/Sweden with the Vandals, and so with Roman Imperial families contains a germ of fact? That is the question a genealogist has when he comes across a lineage like this, that purports to trace ten generations from Harald Bluetooth to Hilderich, King of the Vandals into classical antiquity. Genealogies like these abound on the Internet, but are they at all verifiable?
After considerable effort trying to vindicate this genealogical link, here are my conclusions. Responses will be most welcome.
The question cannot be answered easily. On the one hand, ancient historians do indeed mention the Vandal king Hilderich, son of Huneric, and his marriage to Amalfleda. That much is clear. It is not hard to trace the lineage from Godigiselus to Hiderich in ancient historians. But I have found no reference to a daughter of Hilderich and Amalfleda named Hildis, and certainly not to her marriage to a Danish/Swedish king named Valdar Hroarson, nor do I expect to.
First of all, the last named king of Denmark/Sweden generally acknowledged to have been a historic person was Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark, 940-985. It is fully four hundred fifty years from Harald Bluetooth to the purported marriage of Hildis, the Vandal Princess, and Valdar Hroarson, the Scandinavian king. Where, then, did this genealogical lineage come from, and how reliable might it be?
It comes from Norse Sagas, tales of various age, which purport to recount the history of the Nordic peoples. These derive from ancient bards who sought to preserve their people's history through the long centuries of the Dark Ages. The sagas were eventually written down, beginning in the 10th century or so, often by monks with a sense of history. But through the long centuries in which this process played out,, the sagas were continuously susceptible to change and alteration, especially at the hands of bards, monks, courtiers and others trying to glorify their king and provide him a more illustrious lineage.
At some point in history, an unknown hand examined the sagas seeking to trace a genealogical lineage. Hopping from one saga to another as guided by the matches he thought he saw, he and others like him laboriously put together the various genealogical lineages which we find on the internet and other places. Some go all the way back to Adam and Eve! Others to Odin! But who were these compilers, and what were their motives? What sagas did they use, and how might students evaluate these sagas? Such questions cannot be answered! So the lineages presented in these genealogies must be considered legendary at best, and, often as pure myth. [1]
In the Modern Library edition of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,[2] ch. xxxix (Vol. II, p 99, n. 1) appears the following: "Peringsciold (the Swedish commentator of Chochloeus, Vit. Theodoric. p. 271, etc., Stockholm, 1699) labors to connect this genealogy with the legends or traditions of his native country. If [the argument presented by Gibbons] is correct, then the difficulties which surround the connection of Visigothic kings descending from Thiudimir to Scandinavia are a sign that the line of descent has been forced and is untrustworthy." That is Gibbons' evaluation of genealogies like this one.
So two scholars, writing centuries apart and in different languages, agree in warning us to place no confidence in the reliability of this genealogy as a blood line.
But does that mean the lineage has no value whatever? I do not think so, for it may help us better understand developments between cultures and peoples in the past.
This lineage covers a period known as the "Volkerwanderung," which is often called "The Dark Ages." Across these centuries vast migrations of populations were taking place, occasioned in part by the very nature of cultures, many of which had not yet become thoroughly sedentary, but were to one extent or another nomadic. Also, the invasion of eastern Europe by Asian peoples who moved from western China and Manchuria into the steppe lands of Russia during Roman times, forced nations which had previously occupied those lands to move on. Germanic populations especially were on the move, and constituted a perennial threat to the northern borders of the Roman Empire from the early third century on. While it has proved impossible for both ancient historians and modern commentators to unravel the complex relationships between all these peoples, and there is much disagreement between scholars on such issures, it is certain that among these roving peoples were the Goths (Ostrogoths and Visigoths), the Vandals, and the Heruleans (or Eruleans)
The Free Online Encylclopedia (http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Ostrogothi) says of the Ostrogoths: "According to their own unproven tradition, the ancestors of the Goths were the Gotar of southern Sweden." [Note--one of the original kingdoms which later coalesced to form Sweden was Gothia, which still exists as two provinces of Sweden, Ostrogothia and Visigothia] "By the 3d cent. A.D., the Goths settled in the region north of the Black Sea. There they split into two groups, the names of which reflect the areas in which they settled; the Ostrogoths" [or East Goths] "settled in Ukraine, while the Visigoths, or West Goths, settled further to the west. By c.375 the Huns conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom ruled by Ermanaric,, which extended from the Dniester River, north and east to the headwaters of the Volga River. The Ostrogoths were subject to the Huns until the death (453) of Attila, when they settled in Pannonia (roughly modern Hungary) as allies of the Byzantine (East Roman) empire. The Ostrogoths, who had long elected their rulers, chose (471) Theodoric the Great as king. A turbulent ally, the Byzantine emperor Zeno, commissioned Theodoric to reconquer Italy from Odoacer. The Ostrogoths entered Italy in 488, defeated and slew (493) Odoacer, and set up the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy, with Ravenna as their capital. After Theodoric's death (526) his daughter Amalasuntha was regent for her son Athalric. She placed herself under the protection of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Her murder (535) served as pretext for Justinian to send Belisarius to reconquer Italy. He crushed the Ostrogothic kingdom, but on his recall (541) the Ostrogoths rebelled under the leadership of Totila. In 552 the Byzantine general Narses defeated Totila, who fell in battle. As a result, the Ostrogoths lost their national identity...." From this, it does not seem illogical for a group of the now defunct Ostrogothic peoples to have returned to the homeland in Scandinavia, especially, as we shall see, since they had maintained demonstrable ties with the homeland.
The Vandals [3] are also said to have originated in Sweden, whence they moved across the Baltic to the area of the Vistula river-East and West Prussia, Pomerania, etc. [4] Here they remained briefly before moving into Poland and down the corridor that leads to the Ukraine (Pannonia), near the Sea of Azov. Pressured by the Huns, they also made their way westward, settling briefly along the Danube before driving east into Germany, where in 406 they joined other Germanic tribes in crossing the Rhine into Roman Gaul. After ravaging Gaul for two years or so, they crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, dividing to settle briefly in Galicia and Andalusia (to which they gave its name) before reuniting in Andalusia. The Romans, however, enlisted the Visigoths to drive them from Spain, so they next crossed the Mediterranean and established a kingdom in North Africa. From this they ravaged the entire western Mediterranean by sea, eventually conquering and despoiling Rome itself. In a round-about way, this led to Emperor Justinian's campaign against them, commanded by the great Roman general Belisarius, who finally defeated them.
Exactly what next became of the Vandals is not fully known. Gibbons opines that many made their way to the Atlantic coast, where their descendants, says he, were still to be found in his own day.
Here we enter into murky waters. About 550 A.D. the Greek historian Procopius, in his Vandalic Wars, spoke of a people he calls the Herulians, The Herulians, like the Vandals and Ostrogoths,, had Nordic roots. They are met for the first time in 267 plundering in Greek waters and living near the Vandals and Ostrogoths along the Black Sea. After the invasion of the Huns, like the Vandals and Goths, they wandered. In 456 and 460 "Herulic Vikings" were plundering all the way down to Aquitania and Galicia. All of this, of course, is very reminiscent of the Vandals, and indeed, Procopius says [5]
There were many Gothic nations in earlier times, just as also at the present, but the greatest
The Eruleans were described by the Roman poet Sidonius Apollinaris, writing in Bordeaux, who says that in that area in his day the "Eruleans are walking around with their steel-blue cheeks [i.e., wearing helmets], they who live on the edge of the ocean, near the ice-cold deep." Like the Goths and Vandals, the Herulians had come from the Baltic [Procopius says they came from the Isle of Thule, i.e., Scandinavia, {6}] but at a much later date, and had become intertwined with the Vandals. Perhaps coming from the same racial stock, the two groups simply merged at some point. Any rate, Procopius makes it clear they were living together in North Africa in 536 A.D. [7]
In a remarkable passage, Procopius tells how the Herulians assassinated their own king, a certain Ochus, desiring "to live without a king thereafter." [8] Soon, however, they repented and sent back to their homeland, Thule/Sweden, to obtain someone from the royal family there to come and rule them. [9] Having second thoughts, they later asked Justinian to provide for them a king, which he did. But when the party returned from Thule with the king from the north, Justinian's candidate was put to flight, resulting in renewed war between Rome and the Herulians.
Here we take leave of the Herulians, for we have made the connection which we seek. This people from Thule (Sweden), who had invaded the Roman empire, associated with the Vandals, and then sent back to Sweden for a new king to rule over them. Of course, there is no mention of a Hildis, princess of the Vandals, or of a Valdar Hroarson by Procopius. Still the time period is correct. And it is not inconceivable that the Herulians traveling to Thule to obtain a new king would have taken along a princess to bind by a royal marriage these two branches of the same people, and so cement the relationship between two branches of the one people whom time and distance were separating.
Archaeological excavations of settlements in Sweden from at about this time show signs of a significant Roman presence. Troels Brand notes on a website devoted to the Herulians, [10]
In spite of the reservations above, the arrival of the Heruls as referred by Procopius was quite
To be sure, however, Brandt does not imply that a connection between the Vandals and the Danes
Gibbons also speaks of connections between the ancient Ostrogoths and their Swedish homeland, saying in [12]: "With the country from whence the Gothic nation derived their origin he (i.e., Theodoric] maintained a frequent and friendly correspondence: the Italians were clothed in the rich sables [44] of Sweden; and one of its sovereigns, after a voluntary or reluctant abdication, found an hospitable retreat in the palace of Ravenna. [This Swedish sovereign] had reigned over one of the thirteen populous tribes who cultivated a small portion of the great island or penninsula of Scandinavia, to which the vague appellation of Thule has been sometimes applied."
These references should not be taken as proving this lineage. Serious problems with the lineage remain. 1) There remains no indication that Hilderic had a daughter named Hildis who married a Valdar Hroarson; 2) Links between the Ostrogothic royals and their distant Swedish cousins does not explain Hildis marriage to a Danish king; and 3) Valdar descent from the Danish king Hroar cannot be demonstrated today from the sagas.
Still, the records left by ancient historians, as well as the remains left in the earth by past ages, make it easy to project that about this time there were connections between the North African Vandals and/or Herulians and the area in Swden/North Germany from which they had originated. We certainly cannot say that a daughter of the Vandal king Hilderic in this way became the wife of a Danish king; but we can see this lineage as demonstrating links between the two peoples that may very well have existed. And even if links between Vandals and Swedes did not exist, there were certainly links between the Romans and the Danes/Swedes.
3/23/2011 at 10:51 AM
I'm quite glad you raised the question, Hugo. To be honest, I've left the supposed connection in place until I could more thoroughly research the connection (and I'm not at all convinced that it is an accurate connection, even less so after reading your passage). There are unfortunately a lot of fictitious wives and connections between barbarian tribes that simply didn't exist, or for which the evidence of their existence is suspect.
The approach I'd use is to identify the origin of the assertions that are out there, and determine how close to contemporary to that person's time any referenced sources are. Knowing where the information came from would help in determining the accuracy of the assertion.
Would be interested in what action you'd like to see in this area of the tree, based on your studies. What arguments (and evidence) would you propose to defend either severing the connection or maintaining it? That to me would be greatly helpful in clearing up this section of tree.
And certainly I'd also be greatly interested in finding out more about where the Vandals did eventually go after their kingdom fell, particularly in light of the events in the past few months in northern Africa (Tunisia, the site of ancient Carthago, having been the start of what appears to be a massive wave of unrest in the region). Much has happened since the fall of the kingdom, certainly, but cultural memory has an odd way of turning up where you least expect it.
4/6/2011 at 8:15 AM
As to the reliability of the generational link, I've said about as much in my article as I can. Actually, I am treating the entire lineage after Harald Bluetooth as of questionable origin. It is all based on the Sagas, and I do not yet have sufficient command of these to know whether the connections are valid or not. It would be easy to move from Saga to Saga to "prove" a desired line, but I think a scholar would need to verify the end product.
I personally would allow the link to remain, with the caveats now on the page. While there is no evidence to prove it, it is instructive as to the movements of the Gothic tribes during the Volkerwanderung, which is of interest to some.
What became of the Vandals? I have noted Gibbons statement that after they were driven out of North Africa they migrated north through Spain to the Atlantic coast. I take he means somewhere area of modern day Normandy, but am not sure of that. He says that remnants of the tribe were still living there in his day. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable with the area could find the towns or area to which he is referring.
10/11/2012 at 3:38 PM
the sources connecting the people in modern provinces of east and west gothia, gotland of sweden with the goths are not taken seriously by any modern swedish scholar, some of my professors like to entertain the idea, but mostly just in good fun, (i'm currently writing my masters thesis in dark age/early historic archaeology at swedens largest and most highly ranked university), all however agree that the story of Hildis is completely fictional...
Even if the goths and the sedish geats where the same people, it doesn't really make sense for her to escape Byzantine captivity only to marry a pagan king in old lejre, Denmark. to them the great halls of Lejre, would seem a dirty shed.
personally i want this connection removed, it keeps getting in the way when i try to create the geni graphs over the real danish-roman connection, the one that goes through the Danish - Portuguese princesses.
11/4/2012 at 11:18 AM
Gabriel Bengt, Nils Norburg, I updated her About Me a few months ago with a brief discussion of why her supposed ancestry is unlikely. I would be very happy if you could improve on it. I"m sending a message to the curator for this profile, asking him to cut the connection. If anyone objects, now is the time to speak up.
11/5/2012 at 5:15 PM
sure i'll go to the university library for archaeology and ancient history and dig up some credible quotes on the matter... shouldn't be that hard, the 19th century theory linking the goths to the geats is really not well regarded at all by modern european scholars. i'll do it as soon as i get a free afternoon to kill
it's really only based on one semi-mythical text by Jordanes... modern archaeology has showed that the gothic homelands where influenced by scandinavia up until the first century AD. the grave monuments from this time is probably why Jordanes thinks they all descend from 3 scandinavian ship crews. but that whole idea shouldn't seem logical to anyone living now, and for Hildis to escape to scandinavia 400 years later is almost as wierd an theory.
12/25/2012 at 5:23 PM
i've done some digging in the archives now... seems like not only Hildis but also her husband Valdars existance is on thin ice.
that is the Skjöldunga saga only makes him the king of Scania (which would place him in the capitol of Uppåkra, where i've excavated 3 times and never seen any Vandals)
the whole story of Valdar as King of the danes is really only based on one source "Hversu Noregr byggdist" which i had a hard time finding ... becuase its never used, why? it's late, it's a very suspect text, it's the only geneology to traces enemy clans back to evil giants and it even contradicts itself.
it really is a prime example of a dark age geneology that is 100% lies and propaganda... it's a wild read i'll tell you.
i found paragraphs i believe to be the part that traces the heritage from the Vandals, Goths etc.. but this part had to complex language for me, i have miles to go when it comes to reading old islandic... once i can get transcribed or find an translation i'll post a proper comment on the page with sources and everything... but even now we can say this: the valdar - hildis connection only exist in one source that is not contemporary, it is medieval propaganda written by christian monks, the chronicle is so ridiculous you cannot take it serious in any way shape or form.
the fact that I, in the archives of one of Scandinavia oldest and largest libraries, have trouble finding a translation from the original islandic, also tells me that this source have not been used by historians for a long ,long time
12/27/2012 at 10:16 PM
Gabriel Bengt, Nils Norburg, I don't think anyone believes that Hildis was a real person, although Valdarr might have been.
We had to read Hversu Noregr byggdist when I was an undergraduate, and we had to sit through a long reading from it in the original language, so I think it might be more familiar to scholars in America than in Scandinavia. It was in a book of saga extracts, in English of course. If I knew which book, I might even be able to find it on my bookshelves still ;)
If you are having problems finding a good translation, try this:
Valdar is mentioned, but not his wife Hildis. Maybe I'm missing the reference to Hildis, but if so someone will find it.
Hildis is a recurring topic at soc.genealogy.medieval. Scholar Todd Farmerie has repeatedly rejected it. See, for example, https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/soc.genealog..., where he says, "The entire ancestry of Ragnar Lothbrok is unsupportable, and the particular link to the Vandals is a blatant forgery, not even in the Scandinavian tradition. Ragnar himself is legendary, being a composite of various 9th century people named Ragnall, sons of Ragnall, sons of Ragnar, and sons of Lothbrok."
Scholar Stewart Baldwin has suggested, "Although I suspect that the claimed descent also involves some more modern "scholarship", it seems to me that part of the inspiration probably came from "The Saga of Hervor & King Heidrek the Wise", of which Chapter 15 begins:
"'Angantyr was king over Reidgotaland for many years. He was powerful
BTW, there are two very good sites to use when you are looking for modern translations of saga material:
GermanicMythology.com: http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/FORNALDARSOGURMAIN....
Northvegr.org: http://northvegr.org/
12/27/2012 at 10:42 PM
We don't yet know when Hildis entered the genealogical tradition. There must be some ur text that started it all. It would be nice to find it.
Continuing through my notes, I see that Hildis is often called the wife of Fróði Peace-Good. The chronology, loose as it is, seems to work better.
She is also said to been the Hildr Heidreksdóttir, who married Valdarr's son Haraldr Valdarsson.
Those two clues are probably just as wrong as calling her the wife of Valdarr, but they might suggest an ambiguity in the original text that was the source of this fiction.
Doing some looking around, I found this intriguing suggestion at soc.genealogy.medieval. The author suggests that Hildis might have belonged to a fragment of the Vandals who lived around Brandenburg, rather than the Vandals in North Africa:
"However, Kohlrausch in his history of Germany (pp 158, 166) mentions that the medieval German noble Albert the Bear, who lived in the middle of the twelfth century, "conquered from the Vandals the middle marches, as well as those on the Uker and Prignitz, together with the town of Brandenburg".
"He also says Heinrich the Lion, Duke of Saxony campaigned against them, and that he restored Hamburg, which they had destroyed. This suggests that there was a separate group of people known as Vandals who occupied part of what is now Brandenburg in eastern Germany.
"Turton is even more explicit, referring to the princes of the Abotrites in the notes to his Plantagenet Ancestry as being Vandals."
Todd Farmerie rejects the suggestion, but it is interesting. If someone wanted to argue that Hildis was a real person, and her identity was preserved in an oral tradition, this would be the way to make that argument.
12/30/2012 at 2:40 PM
well the name is in there (says Hildi in the english translation), but seems to be the name of a male ancestor...
and perhaps there is a possible answer in that name, that somewhere down the line the name was ripped out of context to create an even more fake geneology...
i pondered on Hildr Heidreksdóttir also when i came across that paragraf... that it's also possible that somewhere down the line, in some reading of the manuscript Hildr Heidreksdóttir became hildis hildericsdottir. and then the relationship flipped to fit better timewise...
as for the german theory, yes as the text mentions northern german ancestry that is much more "Occam's razor", far less grand claim even for .
12/30/2012 at 2:46 PM
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Many thanks to all for this research into the question. The mention of the Vandals who sacked Hamburg seeming to be a different group than those from North Africa raises another interesting question. What if any is the relationship between the Vandals and the Wendels, who in our textbooks are said to have lived east of Jutland, and to have been driven eastward about the time of Charlemagne? Do you guys have any knowledge of this? The names would sound much alike in German, wouldn't they? I have some East German stamps from the 1980's or 1990's celebrating the Wend culture, which I take to be the modern remnant of this tribe.
1/2/2013 at 3:07 PM
Gabriel, if you do better with Norwegian than with Icelandic, there's a version of "Hvorledes Norge ble bosatt" at http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Hvorledes_Norge_ble_bosatt
There's an English version at sacred-texts.com: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/is3/is316.htm
I've attempted a page with links for the Danish-related legends here: http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Skjoldungene
No mention of Hildis of the Vandals in any version I've found..
1/6/2013 at 3:31 PM
yes i can read norweigian as long as it's bokmål and not ny-norsk :) , i'll take a look at that version...
and Hugo... in Scandinavia we have a long tradition of placing them among the slavic/germanic tribes living in the area of Mecklenburg / pommerania, a region with a long historia of tight relations with both denmark and sweden. Danish king Canute VI started to call himself "King of Venders" after he invaded Pomerania in 1185 as a symbol of his refusal to become a part of Barbarossa's empire.
also Swedish Kings also started to call themselves the similar king of Vendes when they colonized Finland in the 1500's, but that was most likely built on the earlier danish tradition.
brandenburg is also along the germanic/slavic border... venders, vendes, vandals, wendels... i don't think it's far removed to in the early medieval period see it as a general term for the people that lived along the northern, germanic/slavic border.
2/5/2013 at 1:43 PM
Thanks. It's interesting to roll the webs of history into a big ball! I have a wuestion about something entirely off this subject. There's a tradition in my family that about 1780-1805 one of our ancestors, named Johan Ruehrdans, emigrated from Sweden into Amt Warenland, Mechlenburg. Is that a Swedish name? Would there have been any reason for a Swede to have made such a move at that time?
2/7/2013 at 8:42 AM
there could have been many reasons, withouth knowing more i can see 3 top reasons
- Population growth... this was slightly before the potato plague, but people where already migrating. Modern reforms resulted in that Swedens population doubled during this time and many left worried about overpopulation. clearly this was nothing to worry about, but when all of your older brothers survived and left you with nothing you might not see it that way.
-War. alot of charter warfare in this period. which amry you fought for didn't really matter as long as you got to see the world and they paid you.
-trade. Sweden was part of the german sphere, it wasn't until after WWII that swedes started learning english instead of german. swedish scholars wrote in german, german was taught in schools, germany was the main importer of swedish goods since the early medival period and most of what swedes imported up until the 1700's was German. Mechlenburg has a logn history of trade and political struggle with sweden, we even had a Mechlenburgian king for a brief period.
as for the name, Johan is a typical swedish name of the period... the "ueh" combination in his last name however is not typical... to me it sounds like a germanification of perhaps a swedish letter like å or ö... but if that is his original last name and not one he took to avoid being shipped back to sweden, you will find it in the swedish churchbooks, most of them are digital by now.
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Saturday evening was to have been the first of two concerts that close the Mobile Symphony Orchestra season, but it seemed more like a beginning. It was, at the very least, a union of kindred spirits.
Piano virtuoso Yuri Rozum, a close friend and longtime colleague of music director Scott Speck, made his fourth appearance before an audience of 1,405 at the Saenger Theatre. The highly respected Rozum quickly showed his ardor has not dimmed -- he is a proud and vocal proponent of the Russian musical tradition.
This time he played an old favorite, Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsodie on a Theme of Paganini," Op. 43, and he was greeted enthusiastically by an audience well aware of Rozum's proclivity for encores. He gave the crowd three altogether, but more on that in a moment.
The concert will be repeated at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1. (See information box.)
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The final half-dozen variations proved quite a showcase for Rozum, whose skilled fingers danced nimbly through the scherzos into a denouement that indeed seemed to pay homage to the spirit of Paganini.
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His first encore was Rachmaninoff's Etudes Tableaux in E-flat minor, Op. 33; he followed that with Scriabin's Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12. Both pieces were brief and Rozum performed with the emphatic grace of a master. Each left the audience demanding more, so, Rozum returned one last time to perform a transcription of a Pas de Deux from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker."
More than a few patrons took their leave at intermission, even though Stravinsky's seminal "Firebird" Suite No. 2 was still to be played. The piece, written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, had its premiere in 1910 but is still widely performed, for good reason.
As stated in program notes, "Firebird" is drenched in atmosphere and contains (among other things) folk songs and a hymn in telling the story of a prince and a magical bird. The highlight Saturday was clearly the wild 'n' crazy "Infernal Dance," which is primal, tribal and deliciously over the top.
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