Forseti online?

[hearthstone]

I'm currently working on a prayer to Forseti, because one of the things I want to do this year is get to know/become more familiar with some of the gods I just haven't had as much to do with so far as I have had with others. (Not involved in law, and don't tend to have a lot of disagreements.) Forseti is included in my daily devotions, but I've never blotted him, and never written for him. It's not as hard as I expected, but...

the internet is my fact-checker, when I'm on a roll and don't want to get up, go in the other room, get a reference, bring it back, look it up, and by the time I've done all that I've probably lost the flow. I have concluded that there just isn't much online about him. (And I do miss the online Our Troth, which was really handy for just these situations. :))

Comments

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my ex-partner, who is Asatru, has a pretty extensive listing of gods on his site, but I went to check and all it says about Forseti is:
"Son of Baldur and Nanna, he dwells in the mansion Glitner, and he settles all quarrels. No one, god or man, knows better judgements than his."

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not much. And I know there's probably not a lot more in the Eddas, and Forseti doesn't seem to be a major god in modern heathenry so perhaps there just hasn't been a lot of UPG generated on him. Just surprising, given the pages and pages of material you can find on some of the other gods.

[weofodthignen]

There isn't much. But he has that connection to Friesland; did you also search under the "Fosite" version of his name? I remembered that Rich Culver, who has him as patron, wrote an article on him a while back, and googled for it: http://www.holyspring.org/Stiller.htm . Hope that helps a bit.

M

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! Excellent information. (Although the web page is painful to read, weird grey stripes across it, or is that just my browser?)

[weofodthignen]

No, I'm afraid it's the background :-( Try googling Fosite some more, or googling a short quote from the article, but I think the only other places that is online are e-group archives you can't access.

Frith,
M

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always cut and paste :)!