An introduction to the Fireside Chats series and the ongoing effort to preserve oral teaching, worldview, memory, and communal discussion within the Ondheim Theodish Fellowship.
HAIL THE FOLK.
HAIL THE ANCESTORS.
Frith defines the boundary, oaths bind the word, kin carry obligation, and the hall holds witness and memory. The shape of obligation gives these structure, and through symbel they are spoken into wyrd and given force.
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