The Viking Housewife and the Symbology of Keys
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Speaking about another historical myth, particularly around generalizations and stereotypes of the feminine, constructed according to morals and values of post-Industrial European societies.
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The historic documentary Ghostbusters teaches: men are the key master and women are the gatekeeper.
But are you a god?
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Merci beaucoup. Bonne journée, et que tout se passe bien aujourd'hui.
Tack för detta ämnet. Är själv hausfrau och lite besatt av gammla nycklar.
Jag gillar också gamla nycklar. Jag har två som hörde till det gamla huset, tillbaka i byn hehe. Tack för idag!
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Good morning Arith! Good work, good video, may you have a good week thank you for always being teachable.
My dearest neighbor Helenka, Finn passed, entrusting 5 friends to clear and settle her estate. Her husband Buck, Norwegian, traveled the world in Merchant Marine. He kept in touch by shortwave radio, home only twice a year.
There were 4 chests full of keys, each one a true blue key to his heart , from every port hotel sent with a gift from afar.
Keys.
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I find it hard to believe that the average Viking age person had enough locks around the house to even need a whole ring of keys.
As far as arcaheology goes in terms of viking age houses, it's hard to fim them. Usually only the holes of the beams of a building remain. There are evidences though, that the houses of the average Iron Age and medieval Nordic person did not have iron locks and hinges and stuff like that, and it was common to just lock the door with a wooden plank pushed inside an opening on the door. As I said in the video, keys are not common finds in Viking Age graves, and most of them are found in men's graves. Keys that most likely unlocked boxes, chests and coffers.
Thank you Arith! Always a pleasure to listen to you and gaining knowledge.
Hello friend, I just want to thank you. Your channel has been very helpful in my studies of Norse paganism. The fact that there are always subtitles helps a lot because I'm new to English and can't understand everything. Thank you and kisses from Brazil! ❤
Hello there, friend! I'm happy to know the content I create has been useful to you. Be well, all the best. Obrigado ;) gratitão! Um abraço e beijos aqui de Portugal :D
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It's strange just how much of our ideas about gender and women's roles in historic societies is informed by Victorian historical myths, most of which doesn't make sense when you think about it for a second. The idea that women did not work and were confined to the household was obviously, provably false even *during* the Victorian era, as plenty of censuses and records survive to show women worked just about every job under the sun, even those not doing wage labor did backbreaking work like farming, digging and turning peat, repairing fishing nets, butchering livestock, transporting & selling produce etc., alone or with their family/husband.
The idea of pre-industrial women being some kind of "angel of the hearth" with a set of keys, rather than half (and in many cases over half) of the workforce without whom the economy would collapse, is strangely persistent despite the mountains of evidence debunking it. Makes me wonder what kind of ahistorical myths will develop about women's role in current society, especially because you can already see ahistorical stereotyping happening about things which are in living memory, such as the role of housewives in the 1950's.
If any women wore a key as a decorative item, it was definitely to flex that their husband was rich enough that they did not have to do outdoor or manual labor, and likely just managed the servants who did the real household labor. I think the only key that a common woman in Scandinavia might wear would be the key to the cellars or brewhouse, since brewing beer was largely seen as women's work up until the early modern period. Later on, though, moral panics about women having economic agency via the beer trade saw men stripping women of this role in society.
Sounds like "I really REALLY want women to work so they did work, everything else can only be a lie".
Excellent vidéo! I’m a witch and inclusive Heathen and I very much appreciate the symbolism of the key in my practice. I never really thought about it in connection to viking age housewives, but I have thought about it in context to a woman’s role as keeper of the house. Honestly, I would have figured that not too many people would have had the means to have a locked chest and key from iron during that time. Anyway, I often wonder if some neopagans cling to certain ideas as “ancient” or historical bevy they feel something needs to be that way in order to be a valid part of their practice or beliefs system. Personally, I don’t buy into that idea. We’re all just trying to connect with the lives and experiences of our ancestors, but we have a completely different life experience and world view. I find many modern witchcraft concepts like the wheel of the year helpful in connecting to the rhythms of nature and the planet. In my life, I’m so divorced from the struggles our ancestors faced to find food, to survive harsh weather, and health issues. I cannot possibly comprehend the lives they led and how absolutely vital harvests and food, etc. Must have shaped their worldview. So, following the wheel of the year helps me at least ritually experience the different energies of the year as it turns. It doesn’t need to be thousands of years old to help me in my practice. I don’t know. Just a thought. Thank you for such great, honest, historically accurate content. I really appreciate all the hard work you put into making accurate information available. Skål!
yeah ! keys. i have a thing for them, though i don't dress up or wear them. i have dreamt of them, for many years. and i bought a mini 4 track thing and found a good sound software thing to play with. Interesting video - - -but you know if people really put thought to it, for the times how many things would actually have locks - particularly homes etc.
Recently I've discovered your channel (because sometimes the algorythms do their stupid work in a virtuous way !) and your videos are a work of such quality ! I listen to them while drawing or embroidering near my ancestors altar in my studio and it is always a good moment. Warmly from Brittany !
That's a lovely habit you have started and I hope you enjoy many more such moments. I also enjoy sewing by hand and embroidery 🪡
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ouvi a sua música recentemente, muito boa! A ambientação que você fez com as chaves ficou bem legal também :)
These days having a home is about having freedom of expression and the ability to be and sleep in a safe place.
To me keys are a form of protection; not just the glamorization of being a "housewife".
Another aspect to think of is that the doors of perception open with keys as well.
Thank you and take care.
Of course the Archaeology is its preponderant role
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Not, what's it all about? Can you give me more details? Date, original title (if any) etc. So I can check it out :D thank you!
What? No music Arith? Ha ha ha. Very good subject. As usual, men are the focal point of old Norse culture and centered around their vikingr parties. But the women of those societies were key in how the culture maintained and survived throughout all the year, even today. Great video.
Thanks for making videos.
Thank you for watching them.
Found this vid very interesting 🤔 from my non academic observations I always felt a bit off about the concept of the keys. For me it always struck me as a later Christian concept shoehorned in due to the symbology of the Keys used with the Vatican and church.
Is there achiological evidence of lock and keys being commonly used within the Nordic world during the viking age?
I am not an academic just curious about how our ancestors lived and the impacts they have made upon the world that surrounds us.
Ohhhh, the sounds of those jingling keys!? :-)🤤When I close my eyes and re-listen to just the keys jingling.... It's a hauntingly beautiful sound to me. I think I could easily listen to a track of just the keys jingling. Going to go check out your new music project now. Thank you for your thoughtful approach to sharing where that myth originated from as well as noting it as a dangerous misinterpretation. Another fascinating "lesson" from you.
Not so long time ago, the doors of houses in the village were only locked, when the woman of the house was not around.
"The gilded carriage or cage" It's the life a woman that is taught to honor her sacrifices , to give up her symbolic keys as parts of her authentic self. She sacrifices these things as a mother, wife and homemaker. She is taught to wear this with honor. Hence her ring of keys.The issue is, this life was devalued like you said thru the patriarchy... so people will look at it 2 ways and both are correct . Some women are able to thrive in supporting environments and wear those keys with honor and some will lose every part of themselves in those sacrifices, but the key is right there, to give back to ourselves which women today are realizing. (This is also why Hekate has the keys, the symbolic journey to the Underworld to true self) Thank you for this video ❤❤.
My only question is why would they bury someone with keys? I completely understand burying someone with personal effects such as swords, pottery, jewellery, etc. But don’t keys belong with the item or lock they open? Were they expected to change the locks when someone died? I just assumed any keys were kept by the people who needed to open whatever the key was for, regardless of their gender. Obviously I hadn’t put much thought into the topic before watching this video. Otherwise I agree, there’s no reason to attribute Victorian ideals to any other part of history without reasonable evidence of it. And great point at the end, thank you, just one more reason why I love watching your videos.
Glad to see you back from your break. I'm surprised you use this made up word Symbology. The commonly accepted adjective is Symbolism. Dan Brown thought otherwise in that nonsense The Da Vinci Code.
That was interesting about the keys. Keys can be symbolic of what? Opening or unlocking things. Maybe the mysteries of being a woman, birth, spirituality. Who can say.
You might want to experiment with gives of different metals and size. Me I love everything about brass. The weight, the warmth, the colour, the sound.
Super informative, respect brother.
Thank you Arith, another interesting talk. Q, were 'viking' households under lock and key (seems unlikely)?
Could this be a reference/metaphor to the 'key to the door', in regards to the coming of age (I'm not sure where this originated)?
Could keys buried with male Vikings be from raids or buried chests full of gold (ok that one's just my vivid imagination)?
Have a great weekend. Time to celebrate the seed. 😁🎶
Thanks Arith, but what about the right of divorce described in northern law if the husband did not give his wife all the keys in the house? And yet - the mother of Prince Vladimir in Rus', named Malusha, had the status of the housekeeper of Princess Olga (this is his grandmother), literally the bearer of the keys (kljuchnica - kljuch = key). It is clear that this Malusha had a fairly high status under Princess Olga, thus representing one of the important representations of the hostess of the Viking era. Just like the "heertog"(=troop driver) under the konung fulfills the main role of the konung himself - to be a military leader.
Ēostre greetings to you, your family and friends! To many the day and night evenness both in late winter and late summer are of great and spiritual importance. And I hope that the special time has given you meaning.
Personally I take note of these days and give special prayers to Sunna, one of the Goddesses of major importance to me, one of the few who actually physically manifest in our lives. However, the moon cycles are of greater importance to me, the last full moon a ritual to Ēostre, the Anglo-Saxon Spring Goddess, and the Offering before Sigrblót, the celebration/Offering ritual for the beginning of the Summer half of the year, which I plan to hold this coming full moon.
Thanks Arith. Interesting topic.
Key & lock system dates back to 4000bc apparently.
Ancient Greece, women carried a bronze key, as they opened & cleansed the Temples.
Keys represented trust.
Another way this was phased out & manipulated, was by removing the female & introducing honours of 'Keys to the city.'
This is half the story!! Because the key is and was a magic symbol throughout whole Western Europe. In our country we know al lot of old tales were a key is a magic symbol to enter wisdom, or to enter the underworld. A key is also mentioned in a very old childrenssong. In old Germanic folklore a key is placed under the threshold to attract luck.
A key hanging upside down has the same working as the dreamcatcher from the Native Americans, it is a very European way to shatter nightmares. Also the use of Iron, look at the hammer of Thor, he also brought a livestock to life, so metal (like a key of metal) is very magic!! So, keep the symbol of the key alive, it is our European heritage.
I love my key ring even more now. Containing my home's keys, it is a symbol of my household to me. Not of me as a housewife, though I am. Not my "place" or "power". A sacred place where my family dwells, where I nurture guests, raise my family, and provide a place for the Gods to visit should they choose. A safe place for my kid and their sometimes troubled friends to rest. A place where people can heal and grow. A gathering place for events. I'm the person who runs it, if the roles were reversed, my husband would carry them instead. Though, upon asking, his key ring would apparently be cooler and he has promptly set out, looking through the house for all the keys he owns for various things, including copies of the keys I have on my key ring, to go down to Home Depot to buy a "sick key chain" bc now he has a project and a point to prove... This isn't symbol for women. It's for the home.
At least for this household, idk what it meant to any ancient community. I just know I love this personal but of symbolism even more now.
I keep on this ring small decorative keys dedicated to Hecate, to remind myself and all in my home, at the moment or living there, that even this home(world), sacred as it is, is temporary and we all must "go home" at some point. So we must value our time in this sacred home, treat it with respect because it is a home and others will come to live, visit and dwell in it one day and they would like a livable space with little strife and struggle.
So, I have a whole bowl of keys (some old mines from a variety of stuffs and other I found in the streets) and have it on my Lady Sigyn shrine/altar, just for her
As She is my tutelar Goddess, I told her She's welcome and owns the entrance in all my doors in my home (both the entrance to the building and the two in my apartment)
All the others I offered
Her for She can come in and take care of my family
I had the idea that Husfreyas have all the keys on the premises their kin owned, hence the term "Housekeeper", and that they managed the household
SO... I gave my Lady Sigyn the ownership of my place, and a welcome to my family's
Obviously I told my family all this because they're not in my path with Her. They're cool with it though
Buuut...
keys still serve the purpose of opening locks that survive the death of a Matriarch.
Swords on the other hand can no longer be weilded by their owner after they have died.
In Istanbul if the Husband did not provide a good quality coffee the Married women has the Choice of going outside on their own without permission to look for It : )
Great video thank you. Some day I hope to visit your homeland . From USA , western new york 👍🥃
I Am Ready for my Kingdom Husband wherever he Is. He Is going to find me if he found his own Cadmos
Muito obrigado pelo vídeo Arith! Realmente é um assunto recorrente em grupos de praticantes de paganismo nórdico contemporâneo. Mas é sempre bom desfazer mitos novescentistas, não que as pessoas não possam usar as chaves como símbolo, mas ter a clareza da origem histórica desses usos é sempre bom. Ótimo ver que continua publicando vídeos, tenha uma ótima primavera
Eu amei 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛💜💜 Eu sempre falo isso o " novo Paganismo " afffff na verdade não tem nada novo e sim as pessoas cometendo exatamente os mesmos erros do passado. O pior é que quando falamos o povo ainda acha ruim kkk. Eu amei as chaves 🔑 🔑 🔑
Can we take a minute to appreciate how cool keys as an instrument is??
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Brilliant.Love your stuff kick on love it 👍 ❤
i wonder what those keys opened and why who had which ones 💙
Thank'YOU Ar! 👍
If i had a time machine would ancient ppl even talk and be aware of our 2024 concepts of gender so and sos
They would not be aware of many things, and their perceptions and conceptions would also be strange to us. I see it from my village, and even my country as a whole, in the past 30 years things have changed so much, even speaking of the landscape. I myself have a hard time accompanying some stuff, especially how the natural world has changed, because my mind still thinks of my surroundings back in the late 80s and early 90s. I can only imagine how past periods must have been strange in many aspects for both us, and people of the past, if we could show each other our own realities. One thing I'm certain of: Despite the ongoing conflicts in the world, today we are nicer to each other than before. Still a long way to go though.
Thank you Victorian age for cutting off the genitelia of ancient statues and telling us our "natural place" according to your interpretation of antiquity, big help in keeping us all down for 200 years 😢
Thought of you today , and found this posted. Awesome 👌 👏 👍🏻 thank you for all you do !!!
Who had Locks ! So tired of misinterpreted pagan life. Too many C19. artists and quack historians. Thank you Arith. (a woman).
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the victorians were right about women
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I find the AI generated Thumbnails to be a shame. As an artist I sadly can no longer support your channel. I still wish the best on your journey.
Hello there. I'm sorry, but I've come to a point I no longer have the patience to explain what I've explained half a hundred times, including the last thumbnails on Nordic Studies concerning the same theme. You do you. I wish you the best of luck. Thank you, and I wish the best on your journey as well.
It's just a thumbnail for a video - get a grip! It's pathetic!