Yuletide As An Epic Saga

    There is always a time when our fate may seem desperate and the chance of success appears hopeless.  The Asa gods and goddesses thought they were lost when the god of light Balder was ignorantly killed by his blind brother Hoder.  However, the struggle goes on until a time when it appears light is lost to the gods and men of the realms.  This is the time of the reunification of Balder and Hoder.  A reformation and rebirth of the new god of Wotan in the renewing year is a continuing cycle.

    The case of the men and gods at the time of Yule is an epic saga that is continually borrowed from and repeated in great works of music and film.  One such story is told in the third of a three-volume conflict which is titled ‘Return of the King’.  To slightly paraphrase Aragorn at the Black Gate of Mordor in this film:
    “Hold your ground.  Hold your ground.  Friends of the Celts, of Walloons, of Slavs my brothers…  I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.  A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our bonds and we forsake all fellowship.  An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!  By all that is good on this good earth I bid you stand.  Stand,  men of the West!