{"id":191,"date":"2014-10-09T18:19:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-10-09T18:19:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:19:57","slug":"leif-erikson-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/leif-erikson-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Leif Erikson Day – a true Interfaith Guy who merged Viking Religion with Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leif Erikson discovers America — he named it Vinland — in 999 A.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 9 is Leif Erickson Day .<\/p>\n

Grow your beard out, act like a Viking! The Vikings beat Columbus to the “New World” by over a hundred years, so today should be the holiday, not Columbus Day! What did he name this land he discovered? Vineland. \u00a0Because of all the greenery. \u00a0Are we thus living in\u00a0Vinland or Vinlandia, not America?<\/p>\n

Leif Erikson is a cool dude because he managed to combine his father Erik the Red’s Norse Heathenism (aka Viking religion, aka Asatru) with his mother’s new Christianity. \u00a0He was a very interfaith or dual-faith guy, and we here at the NorthernWay Mystery School show people they can be dual-faith, too. See some of our courses on Viking Religion in our Teutonic (Germanic) study hall<\/a>. Some lessons are mixed with primitive earliest Christianity, but many are true heathen teachings or “tru” as the Vikings say.<\/p>\n

This link has some nifty and entertaining\u00a0Leif Erikson Day tweets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 9 is Leif Erickson Day . Grow your beard out, act like a Viking! The Vikings beat Columbus to the “New World” by over a hundred years, so today should be the holiday, not Columbus Day! What did he name this land he discovered? Vineland. \u00a0Because of all the greenery. \u00a0Are we thus living … Continue reading Today is Leif Erikson Day – a true Interfaith Guy who merged Viking Religion with Christianity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[60,59,61,58],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays","tag-heathenism","tag-leif-erikson-day","tag-norse-paganism","tag-viking-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t