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“Earth worship” indicated in these charms. The charms were conducted with the
stewards of the land playing the role of Whole-maker or healer curing the land.
Another ceremony, which had a relatively common form throughout the entire
Germanic realm, was the leading of a wagon containing either a wooden image of
a deity of fertility or a human representative of a god or goddess through the local
area to promote an abundance of crops for the year. Usually, this rite took place
in the spring so it can be assumed, at least according to the ideas being proffered
here, that the purpose of this ceremony was to “groom the lineages of people, places,
and animals” so that all had good access to power/ luck. There is a description of
the rite probably related to the Goddess Nerthus in Tacitus’ Germania as having
taken place in Denmark around the 1st century CE, and another two mentioned in
the Flateyjárbók as having taking place in Sweden during the Viking Age. Moberg
describes this ceremony and it’s probable relationship to a ceremony still conducted
by the Swedish monarchy:
“Each summer the wooden image of Frej [sic], set up in a wagon, made
a journey through Sweden. Carried round the country to bless the grain on
the fields, the god promoted the year’s growth and reproduction. It is here
we probably have the origin or the Eriksgata, a progress through the realm
still undertaken by Swedish kings after their accession.” 17
According to Snorri in the Ynglingasaga, the kings of Sweden trace there ancestry
back to the God, Frey, and because of this lineage the kings have access to the
power/ luck of that lineage:
“They [the kings of Sweden] were worshipped by their subjects as possessing
supernatural powers. The common people believed their rulers could
regulate natural processes as they pleased, distribute rain and sunshine as
might best help the crops and promote the fertility of man an beast, producing
healthy, well-fashioned offspring free of all blemish or deformity. Under
a good king the grain was plentiful, women became pregnant, cows calved,
man and beast multiplied, and no monsters were born into the worldldots. As
long as a ruler could prove his divine power by the happy courses of nature,
he sat safely on his throne.” 18
As representative of a divine lineage, the Swedish king then traveled throughout his
realm to allow all lands, beasts, and men to interact with him so that lineages were
intertwined and all life within the realm were increased in power/ luck. Lineage
interacts with lineage to improve access to luck/ power regardless of whether one is
17 Vilhelm Moberg, A History of the Swedish People, pp. 56-57.
18 Moberg, p. 56.