As fringe groups adopt Viking symbols, Nordic unease is enough to sink a ship

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As fringe groups adopt Viking symbols, Nordic unease is enough to sink a ship
Originally published March 30, 2018 at 4:00 pm Updated March 30, 2018 at 4:38 pm

Viking symbols are often used in mainstream branding initiatives for everything from barber shops to chocolate bars. But some use of the symbols reflects an extremist side of the Viking cultural renaissance taking hold across the Nordic region and beyond.

RUNTUNA, Sweden — The cries of “hell!” “hell!” ringing out across a snow-clad landscape attracted a curious crowd of weekend tobogganers. At the foot of an ancient Viking burial mound, one of the prime sledding spots near the Swedish village of Runtuna, a circular gathering of pagan worshippers was completing a sacrificial ceremony.

The religious service involved a wooden hammer held aloft, various invocations to Norse deities and ceremonial drinking from two large black horns, one brimming with beer, the other with nonalcoholic mead. Two women led the service, which honored female Norse gods and spirits.

Several worshippers explained later that no one was referring to eternal damnation while shouting “hell!” The group members are not Satanists. Their chants, they said, were a salutation in the Old Norse language, a commonplace greeting in Sweden and other Nordic countries during the era of the Vikings, whose cultural and political peak was about a thousand years ago.

“Hell” also has echoes of the German word “Heil!” and its haunting associations with Nazi salutes.

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Where they got "Hell" meaning Hello is a mystery. Because it's wrong. Unless it's some backwater dialect I've never seen.

Following is from Geir T. Zoega's 'Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic'.

http://norse.ulver.com/dct/zoega/index.html

heilsa (að), v. to say hail to one, greet one (= biðja e-n heilan vera), with dat.; h. á e-n = h. e-m.
heilsa, f. (1) health; (2) restoration to health (hann var feginn heilsu sinni); (3) salvation.
heil-samligr, a., -samr, a. wholesome, salutary.
heilsan, f. salutation, greeting.

And yes, Hitler's scum appropriated symbolism from Viking culture.

And it will probably take Centuries for the stench they put on it to fade away.

As for "Hell" it's an undesirable place where the unrighteous end up both in modern English and Old Norse.

In Old Norse it only has 1 'L' on it.

The difference being that unlike the Heat of the Christian Hell, the Heathen Viking Hel was cold, wet, and one endured hunger and thirst there.