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A Carol in Three Stanzas

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Freyr - Wikipedia

 

I

Caput apri defero

reddens laudes Domino

 

“A boar's head I bear,

rendering praises to the Lord.”

 

The Boar's Head Carol

English, 15th century

 

II

...cum ingenti Priapo

 

“...with a huge 'Priapus' [= erection]”

 

Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis (ca. 1080)

Description of the idol of Freyr [“the Lord”] in the Great Temple at Uppsala

 

III

 Caput apri defero

cum ingenti Priapo

 

The Boar's Head Carol

Paganistani, 21st century

 

 

 

Above:

Bronze statuette (ca. 1000) , thought to represent the god Freyr

Rällinge, Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.
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