Bear Folklore & Kinship: Interview with Olle Möllervärn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
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I could have listened to this conversation go on for hours more!
I really enjoyed this conversation!
I remember being part of a heathen study group on Facebook many years ago, and I remember interacting with Olle.
It's amazing how many Germanic names for people are either simply the word "Bear", or a variation thereof. (e.g. "Ursula"; "Bjorn", "Arthur", "Bernard", etc...) Old habits die hard.
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A great interview. I assume you know the book “Bjørnejægeren” (The Bear Hunter), the Danish translation of the Swedish book "Björnjägaren Klomma" by C. B. Gaunitz from 1942. A wonderful mix of nature, poetry and bear lore.
There doesn’t appear to be any English translation- dang, today I wish I could speak Swedish.
As far as I know, you’re right, there is no English translation. A short English version of the author’s biography from the Swedish edition of Wikipedia reads in English:
Carl Bertil Gaunitz, born September 17, 1895, in Åsele, Västerbotten, and died July 23, 1969, in Västanfors Parish, Fagersta, was a Swedish agronomist, author, and teacher of biology and chemistry.
He was the son of forestry manager Victor Gaunitz and Martina Pontén and grew up in Sorsele.
C. B. Gaunitz was an entomologist and a specialist in Swedish beetles. The majority of his extensive beetle collections have been donated to Lund University. He authored around 30 books, several of which have been translated into Finnish, Icelandic, and German, as well as a number of scientific articles.
@@michaelbreuning3115 thank you for this!
I would really like to read his work. My grandma’s grandparents immigrated to Canada from Västerbotten in the 1910s, a long distant connection but a nice connection nonetheless. And I love to read about nature and folklore. Perhaps this will be good motivation to study a bit of Swedish- I like learning languages.
Is that a John Bauer illustration on the thumbnail?
Yes it is.
Kittelsen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-Bear-King-Valemon
interesting: i opened a private-window, they're not the same thumbnails...
the bear in the thumbnail, is it white or brown?
So Disney Pixar ripped off a bear/humanbear legend from the Scottish highlands and turned it into a movie called Brave.
Obviously it’s been Disneyfied but the legend of the girl with the bear heart itself is still well known.
I'm curious if bear kinship was supposed to be the result of a physical union between a human and a bear, or if it's more that one or both of the parents are possessed by the bear spirit at the time of conception. In the Northern Tradition lineage that I work with, it's held that there are a lot of people whose parents get possessed during sex, e.g. by light or dark elves or dwarves or Jötnar or Aesir or Vanir, and that spiritual influence on their genes leads them to cultivate unique traits related to their spiritual heritage. For example, people with Jötun blood tend to be good at shapeshifting and somewhat more likely to be intersex or otherwise have unusually shaped bodies.There are also people who reincarnated human after dying as an elf etc. and if Hel sends them to Earth they still have an "elven soul," so I think some people could also be reincarnated bears.
what a load of bollocks😂😂
Laavu is tipi gahkti is clothes