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Lore of the Kinsfolk: Book I

Lore of the Kinsfolk: Book I

D.S. Blais
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Lore of the Kinsfolk is a nine-volume anthology of literature that reflects the cultural soul and values of our "Germanic," "Nordic," and "Celtic" European ancestors. Encompassing 5,000,000 words of complete primary sources, these works allow us to "hear" the voices of our ancestors through their songs, sagas, epics, and chronicles. Until the availability of this compilation, an anthology such as this was lacking. To understand why, let us look at the "Great Books" and "Western Canon" such as the famed Great Books of the Western World. After eighteen massive volumes of classical works, not a single piece is included from the eight hundred years spanning Augustine to Aquinas! There are hundreds of pages of pointless astronomical tables from Kepler and Copernicus, but not a paragraph of the Nordic Sagas. What is the perspective of the scholar who chooses Adam Smith over Thomas Malory, Paradise Lost over the Song of Roland, and so on?

The perspective of such a scholar is not at all original, but instead extends tastes which have their origin in the 14th century with the Renaissance and its disparagement of what Petrarch called the "Dark Ages," elevating the Greeks and Romans of antiquity while debasing his European ancestors as ignorant primitives. The Renaissance is, in truth, the reaction that Petrarch and other Northern Italians, informed by cynicism derived of pestilence and famine, initially fashioned in choosing the glittering ephemerality of wealthy and decadent past empires over the ancestral European outlook characterized as ultimately based on the intimate faith in Nature's inherent goodness and correctness, i.e. the harmonious expression of the divine in the Middle World.

Chivalry cannot abide Capitalism, nor the contrary. To defeat the obstacle posed to trade, the merchant must disarm the knight; neuter the old concepts of masculinity and femininity; replace "person" with "consumer;" mock sacrifice, loyalty, and honor; and endlessly advertise the Self over the Folk, that is, the individual over their larger sense of belonging within Nature. The New Man of commerce, technology, and imperialism would spread the inticements of the Levantine moneylenders and their power-hungry collaborators into Belgium, Amsterdam, England, and throughout Europe, promoting his cosmopolitan oligarchical ethos everywhere he went. Fresh imperialism caught on fire, profitable colonies were established overseas, ruthless slavery came back into vogue, the cruel Jehovah replaced the compassionate Christ, and thereafter all "enlightened" people only looked with embarrassment and contempt upon those ridiculous old views of the past.

In fact, the true nature of our ancestral character is shown by its honorableness, compassion, piety, idealism, humaneness, and vigor. As such, it reflects the best aspects of the continued soul of our European folk. The works in the Lore are not merely historical relics; they are a sacred heirloom which has been passed to you so that you may live as accords your natural being. And for you who hearken to the call of your forefathers, may their words cause your heart and mind to follow the wisdom of heroes over the wending path of time and fate.

BOOK I Contents

Jordanes: Origin of the Goths
Gildas: On the Ruin of Britain
Beowulf
Einhard: Charlemagne
Nennius: History of the Britons
Ælfric: Homilies
Asser: King Alfred
Song of Roland
Geoffrey of Monmouth: Kings of Britain
Táin Bó Cúalnge
Wace: Chronicle of the Norman Conquest
Chrétien: Erec et Enide
Chrétien: Cliges
Chrétien: Yvain
Chrétien: Lancelot
Saxo Grammaticus: History of the Danes
Language
English
Pages
626
Format
Paperback
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Release
December 12, 2017
ISBN
1981680411
ISBN 13
9781981680412

Lore of the Kinsfolk: Book I

D.S. Blais
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Lore of the Kinsfolk is a nine-volume anthology of literature that reflects the cultural soul and values of our "Germanic," "Nordic," and "Celtic" European ancestors. Encompassing 5,000,000 words of complete primary sources, these works allow us to "hear" the voices of our ancestors through their songs, sagas, epics, and chronicles. Until the availability of this compilation, an anthology such as this was lacking. To understand why, let us look at the "Great Books" and "Western Canon" such as the famed Great Books of the Western World. After eighteen massive volumes of classical works, not a single piece is included from the eight hundred years spanning Augustine to Aquinas! There are hundreds of pages of pointless astronomical tables from Kepler and Copernicus, but not a paragraph of the Nordic Sagas. What is the perspective of the scholar who chooses Adam Smith over Thomas Malory, Paradise Lost over the Song of Roland, and so on?

The perspective of such a scholar is not at all original, but instead extends tastes which have their origin in the 14th century with the Renaissance and its disparagement of what Petrarch called the "Dark Ages," elevating the Greeks and Romans of antiquity while debasing his European ancestors as ignorant primitives. The Renaissance is, in truth, the reaction that Petrarch and other Northern Italians, informed by cynicism derived of pestilence and famine, initially fashioned in choosing the glittering ephemerality of wealthy and decadent past empires over the ancestral European outlook characterized as ultimately based on the intimate faith in Nature's inherent goodness and correctness, i.e. the harmonious expression of the divine in the Middle World.

Chivalry cannot abide Capitalism, nor the contrary. To defeat the obstacle posed to trade, the merchant must disarm the knight; neuter the old concepts of masculinity and femininity; replace "person" with "consumer;" mock sacrifice, loyalty, and honor; and endlessly advertise the Self over the Folk, that is, the individual over their larger sense of belonging within Nature. The New Man of commerce, technology, and imperialism would spread the inticements of the Levantine moneylenders and their power-hungry collaborators into Belgium, Amsterdam, England, and throughout Europe, promoting his cosmopolitan oligarchical ethos everywhere he went. Fresh imperialism caught on fire, profitable colonies were established overseas, ruthless slavery came back into vogue, the cruel Jehovah replaced the compassionate Christ, and thereafter all "enlightened" people only looked with embarrassment and contempt upon those ridiculous old views of the past.

In fact, the true nature of our ancestral character is shown by its honorableness, compassion, piety, idealism, humaneness, and vigor. As such, it reflects the best aspects of the continued soul of our European folk. The works in the Lore are not merely historical relics; they are a sacred heirloom which has been passed to you so that you may live as accords your natural being. And for you who hearken to the call of your forefathers, may their words cause your heart and mind to follow the wisdom of heroes over the wending path of time and fate.

BOOK I Contents

Jordanes: Origin of the Goths
Gildas: On the Ruin of Britain
Beowulf
Einhard: Charlemagne
Nennius: History of the Britons
Ælfric: Homilies
Asser: King Alfred
Song of Roland
Geoffrey of Monmouth: Kings of Britain
Táin Bó Cúalnge
Wace: Chronicle of the Norman Conquest
Chrétien: Erec et Enide
Chrétien: Cliges
Chrétien: Yvain
Chrétien: Lancelot
Saxo Grammaticus: History of the Danes
Language
English
Pages
626
Format
Paperback
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Release
December 12, 2017
ISBN
1981680411
ISBN 13
9781981680412

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