The Norse Month That Decided Who Survived Winter #shorts

Tvímánuðr - the fifth month of summer in the Old Norse calendar, also called kornskurðarmánuðr: the harvest month. It runs from the twenty-second week of summer to the edge of autumn, and it is the month where the year turns against you. THE MYTH The Norse year had no four seasons. It had two, sumar and vetr, summer and winter. Tvímánuðr is where summer starts losing. The grain comes down, the herds are counted, the stores are filled. Everything gathered in this month is what stands between a household and the dark half of the year. Sif's golden hair was read as the standing grain. Freyr was called on for the year that gave enough. And in a north that carried the memory of a winter without a summer, a thin harvest in Tvímánuðr wasn't just hardship. It was read as a warning. Full track and the rest of the Viking Calendar: https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLAXEbg28arT0?sbp=QAE%3D Save it to your library if it belongs there. #NorseMythology #VikingMusic #shorts