Success!
The Flagstaff Meet Up was a success! We started off at the Mead Hall, hit up Crystal Magic and then ended up at the Cornish Pasty Co. A fun time was had by all!
You should join us next time!
Lammas/Lughnassad/Freyfaxi coming up!
Now is the time of the hay harvest, typically for Freyfaxi a white horse is part of the celebrations (but this is a picture of my horse). In one of the Icelanders’ sagas, Hrafnkel’s saga Freysgoða, we learn how important the horse Freyfaxi was to chieftain Hrafnkel: He axes his own shepherd Einar and keeps his promise that he will kill anyone who rides his horse without permission. The saga that is believed to have been written down in the second half of the 13th century, takes place in northeast Iceland in the early 900s. It is describing chieftain Hrafnkel as mild and fair towards his own men, but harsh against all others. (continue reading here) This is also a festival of Lugh, the Celtic god of every skill. Lughnassadh is the feast of Lugh, typically thought to be the funerary feast for his foster mother Tailtiu who cleared the plains of Ireland so that they could cultivated. Unfortunately she lost her life due to the exertion. Horse racing often figures into Lughnassadh cel...
