Have a joyous evening my friends, my the drink flow well and the memories happy....

Exciting News!

I’ve been thinking about a new name and domain for our community—something that’s easy to remember and type, with a bit more reach as we continue to grow.

I’m happy to share our new name FolkRealms.com! This name feels like it captures the spirit of what we’re building—a grounded space for everyone who feels connected to pagan and Norse traditions.

Why the Change? FolkRealms feels simple and inviting, and I think it will make it easier for more people to find us as we expand. Valknuden has been a great part of our journey, but this new name should give us a stronger foundation as we grow together.

Thank you all for being part of this community!

Danheim same as you I am not happy with Facebook algorithm when it comes to music. Do you plan special features for musicians and bands to show off their music or the feed will be built on every user equal rights? Maybe a thread for all users to tell how they would like Valknuden to work just to do a little brainstorm?

I feel this might the place I can share something I wrote.

I am a third-generation Danish Australian, and although my family has faced struggles here, it has created a unique story. I am continuously inspired by my heritage and culture, which play a significant role in shaping my identity. With a lifelong love for music and history, I wrote these lyrics inspired by an Icelandic lullaby from the 19th century. This work is still in progress, but I imagine explaining to my ancestors where I am in my creative process.

It combines elements from Australia and the Nordic journey, including accounts of arriving here (such as the tale of a Norwegian who was stranded off the coast of Western Australia a century ago, bravely swam to shore, battled a shark with a knife, and lived to tell the tale... then returned to Norway.



forbindelse

Hush
Sleep now child
We are far away from the cracking
Ice
We are now in a place of warmth
And bounty

We live now closer to where’s surtur rests
And the fire giant crack the soils

We long for our home in the north
But are blessed and cursed with our new home land.

Days are hot and the sun blisters our fair skin
Life is not without hardship

Happy are we to be near the sea
But dangers lurk beneath

Be happy and healthy
But always wary

Never forget where you are from and those who came before you

this land isn’t out of thor’s reach
His mighty hammer can still be heard …

Happy Mabon/autumn equinox from Austin Texas. Pumpkin spice turkey, hen of the woods mushroom soup, curry pumpkin rolls, apple cheddar tart, hot honey bacon goat cheese spread and pumpkin mocha latte cake for desert.

Frohes Erntedank, Happy Autumn Equinox , Blessed Mabon or whatever you (pagan folks) name it.

"Nature is mother to us ALL"

A bit of Story Time for fun:
Looking back on some of my old memories from a couple years ago, it's crazy to me that I only could speak like 3-4 words in Danish. Despite my family coming from Denmark, I never cared to learn the language growing up. Most of that was due in part to the fact that in America my family began very split and broken. I grew up with parts of my blood family and two step families here in America during my upbringing, all down in Texas of all places. With this, I also never learned much about our culture, a lot due in part that I held a lot of animosity towards my blood family, most of which came down to religion. My grandfather raised me for the majority of my upbringing, teaching me the animatic ways of life, and in turn I was not Christian, something the majority of my blood family refused to accept, and due to a lot of the fighting and terrible things because of this growing up, I refused myself as a Dane. I didn't want to be like my family for the longest time, I spent a long time wishing my blood was that of my step families that took care of me at times throughout my childhood. Now to spare the 25 years of my history I'll skip ahead to the last 4 years. While I've always been pagan, I explored with many different spiritualities and occult things the past 13 years outside of my more animistic pagan upbringing as a child. In part of 'not wanting to be a Dane' I had actually cast off doing any work with Norse Paganism for a very long time, I had only learned about the runes and such when I was younger, and animistic ways but outside of that I didn't care very much, the same way I never cared to learn Danish. I know it sounds silly and stupid, but Norse Paganism being Scandinavian was too close to being like my family, even though they were very heavily Christian, but I wanted nothing to do with anything from that area for a good portion of my life. And of course over the past few years, I realized just how stupid it was. But in 2021 when Valheim Released, and I got a sudden spark to start caring, I really dove right in, and when I discovered Fuimadane that year, I really got behind the phrase. Fuck you im a Dane. From there i started embracing who i was, enjoying the Norse Myths and history, and i even embraced my accent a bit more, though not speaking any Danish i felt a bit dumb, and began taking the time to learn the language, asking my grandma whom i had not had much contact with over the years to teach me some things, and unfortunately greatly regretting being so disconnected from my blood family for so long, as my great grandma who really had the well of knowledge about of family had passed away during my teen years when I had completely distanced myself from my blood family. Now this did cause some conflicts, my emergence did upset the very Christian people on my family, and we still do not get along, but me and my grandma do find common ground and get along despite our religious differences. I connected with more family members in Denmark, and even some extended family in Sweden! Which was all really exciting, but the connection really has not held, unfortunately my family over seas also holds the same religious values and gets infuriated about my religious views the same as the bits of my family here in America. However despite butting heads heavily with my family, I continued on my journey, I delved further into the ways of Forn Seð, and very much embraced my Danish self and its brought me where I am today. And i really have to give a lot of thanks to Fuimadane, when I discovered him, and the meaning on why his artist name was Fuimadane, this invigorated me and gave me a lot of drive to stand up and go FUCK DIG JEG ER DANSKER! Anyways if you read all this, thanks for reading my silly and complex upbringing in America, it was a very rough and complicated childhood to day the least and of course all the real bad and not good things im not going to put here, but in looking back on things in my life, im happy how things turned out, that i was able to embrace myself and my spiritual path.

Happy Independence Day Ukraine

Just something nice that happened this month
#happytroll #heilung #MariaFranz #happy #mentalhealth