On Usoniandeutsch (and Schwäbisch-Amerikanisch) Identity Within Heathenry
By Sean Jobst “Wo an wohlgebahnten Straßen (Where on well-paved roads) Man in neuer Schenke weilt, (one dwells in a new inn,) Wo dem Fremdling reichermaßen (Where the stranger is richly) Ackerfeld ist zugeteilt, (allocated arable field,) Siedeln wir uns an mit Andern. (We settle with others.) Eilet, eilet, einzuwandern (Hurry, hurry, immigrate) In das neue Vaterland! (to the new fatherland!) ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lied der Auswanderer” (Song of the Emigrants), 1794 Illustration associated with Goethe's "Lied der Auswanderer." He would often be inspired to write his poems sitting under an oak tree. The oak tree was revered by ancient Germans, associated with the Thunderer Donar , and with the Celtic Druids, whose name meant "oak-wise". "Landverhuisers" (The Emigrants, 1896) by the Flemish artist Eugène Laermans (1864-1940) Lately I’ve been thinking more deeply about how Heathenry directly relates to we who live outside our ancestral lands of ...