Excerpt
Chapter 1 - Legacy of the Northmen
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From the cold and frozen fjords of Scandinavia, to heavily forested Germania, and west to the fertile, temperate British Isles, came the men and women of the North. Forged into hardy and resourceful tribes by necessity; they wandered far in search of riches, fame, and new places to call home.

It is from this most noble and courageous stock, many of us claim descent.

Just Another Day?
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One of the most overlooked legacies of our Northern Ancestors is codified in the Days of the Week in the English Language; all but Saturday, are named for one of our old Germanic gods and goddesses.

When I first discovered this, I was perplexed that such an obvious piece of our culture was never taught in school to my generation, or that of my children. We learn about Roman and Greek Mythology in most North American schools (which I thoroughly enjoyed as a child), but not about Germanic/Norse mythology, when approximately 65% of the population of America is of North Western European descent.
 
In the Preface of his 1897 version of the “Younger Edda”, Rasmus B. Anderson, LL. D. has the following to say:

“ The records of our Teutonic past have hitherto received but slight attention from the English-speaking branch of the great world-ash Yggdrasil. This indifference is the more deplorable, since a knowledge of our heroic forefathers would naturally operate as a most powerful means of keeping alive among us, and our posterity, that spirit of courage, enterprise and independence for which the old Teutons were so distinguished.”

Lets walk through some of the fascinating lore behind our “everyday” lives.