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"Words shall not be hid nor spells buried might shall not sink underground though the mighty go." ― Elias Lönnrot

Nordic folklore is the result of a collection of beliefs, oral traditions through metaphorical narratives and material culture, having been derived and passed down through generations by the peoples of common Germanic, and to a lesser extent, Finnish, Sami, and Baltic countries.

One of the main essences of this folkore is the intimate relationship of man with the eternal spiral cycle of Nature. All things are temporary but at the same time regenerative. All is restored but never repeated. This is reflected in many examples throughout the history of the Nordic cultures and still today. The Kalevala, Finland’s most significant piece in its literary history, is a prime example of such metaphorical narrative. It comprises an epic array of rune songs of Karelian and Finnish mythology, foregathered and published by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century, describing shamanic symbolism, practices, and cosmology. The Kalevala begins and ends with the central character, divine hero Väinämöinen. He is the guardian spirit of the water, who comes from his mother, Ilmatar, the virgin spirit of the air. After spending hundreds of years in the womb of his mother floating on the sea, he escaped to land by praying to the sun, the moon, and Ursa Major. It was on this land that Väinämöinen cultivated the first flora and helped humans to find barley to plant as the archetype of fertility.

Another example of metaphorical narrative in the 20th century is the life legacy of Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson (1924-1993), who was an Icelandic rímur singer and founder of Ásatrúarfélagið (i.e. Ásatrú Fellowship) in 1972. He spent most of his life pursuing lcelandic rímur and edited textbooks of this verse style and several anthologies in order to preserve knowledge from the Icelandic folklore based on the Old Norse collective literary texts, Edda, written and compiled by the Icelandic historian, Snorri Sturluson, back in the 13th century (1179-1241).

On the other hand, as instance of this organic interrelationship between mankind and Nature is manifested in material culture, Nordic Classicism architecture created in Scandinavia between 1910 and 1930 is the result of the transition between the architectural movements National Romanticism (i.e. Jugendstil & Art Nouveau) and Functionalism (i.e. Modernism). The Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, (1898-1976) is to be credited for the most prolific work of this movement. He based his “organic architecture” on diverse philosophical sources such as Goetian science, following the forms seen in Nature, and organisms free from straight angles as a foundation for the building plan. This approach can also be seen as the basis of other previous architect movements such as the anthroposophical architectural masterpiece, the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, designed by the Austrian philosopher and architect, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), which derived the architecture of Waldorf schools.

With this magical libation we bid you, sons of the Earth, to dive into the waters of Nordic folklore wisdom and to remind you that nothing is ordinary in our inseverable connection with Nature.