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Green Arrow
12-12-2013, 08:01 PM
Interesting article (http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/forseti/about.html) about Forseti, the Norse god of Law and Justice:


Supposedly, there was once a shrine to Forseti at a spring on an island between Denmark and Frisia, identified in one old source as Heligoland. In one legend, the Frankish king Charles Martel told the twelve Frisian law-speakers that they must conform to his laws or face death, slavery, or being set adrift in a rudderless boat on the ocean. They chose the latter, and prayed for help as they drifted. According to the story, a thirteenth man suddenly appeared on their boat with a golden axe over his shoulder. He steered the boat using his axe as a rudder and brought them to land, then split the land with his axe and a spring came forth. He identified himself as Fosite, taught them all new laws, and then vanished.

Mister D
12-12-2013, 09:41 PM
Interesting article (http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/forseti/about.html) about Forseti, the Norse god of Law and Justice:

Interesting myth. Martel was of course the grandfather of Charlemagne whose missionary and military campaigns against the pagan Saxons, Frisians, and others are what is probably being referred to.