European Folk

"Europe is a spiritual form. It is not bounded by geography but by destiny."

- Oswald Spengler

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In the 18th Century, the Swedish navy was issued these boarding axes in lieu of cutlasses, sometimes with built-in flintlocks. They were based directly upon the breidöx of the Viking Age, with the forward-angled edge and pronounced thrusting “horn”. Honouring the ancestors. ᛟ

Christopher Columbus is depicted landing in the West Indies, on an island that the natives called Guanahani and he named San Salvador, on October 12, 1492. He raises the royal banner, claiming the land for his Spanish patrons, and stands bareheaded, with his hat at his feet, in honor of the sacredness of the event. The captains of the Niña and Pinta follow, carrying the banner of Ferdinand and Isabella. The crew displays a range of emotions, some searching for gold in the sand. Natives watch from behind a tree.

- John Vanderlyn, 1847.

Old Man in Military Costume by Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1630–1631.

Ján Francisci with Slovak volunteers in Myjava during the Slovak Uprising of 1848–1849, by Peter Michal Bohúň (made between 1849 and 1850).

A young couple from Lithuania dressed in traditional folk attire, photographed in the Kaunas District, 1934.

"Since ages past Czechs have said and had proverbs which state, that if the leader is good, so too is the journey."

- Hussite war song, 15th century.

Picture: Jan Žižka leading his troops (illumination from the late 15th century)

In 1938, in Jeréz, Spain, archaeologist Manuel Esteve poses wearing a Corinthian helmet discovered during local excavations.

“The heroes who become immortal are those… who are really capable of overcoming, thanks to an inner impulse toward transcendence… conferred upon them by the Olympian principle, or Zeus.”

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World.

Some paintings made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Dahl:

1) "By The Fjord", before 1937.

2) "Peasant Girl with a Rake"

3) "Portrait of a young girl", believed to be Eline Wiese, August 1921.

4) Fjord with sailing boat, before 1937.

5) "In calm waters", unknown date.

1) Saint George and the Dragon (1606-1608) by Peter Paul Rubens.

2) Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1505 (Raphael).

3) Saint George and the Dragon
c. 1432/1435, Rogier van der Weyden.

4) Saint George and the Dragon, tempera, gold leaf, and ink on parchment by the Master of Sir John Fastolf, c. 1430–40; in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

"For the ancient Gaels, the sword was a bridge between the mortal and the divine, its steel a conduit for the warrior’s spirit, a reverence clear in the Táin where the weapon is celebrated as an extension of the hero’s own fury."

- Miranda Green (Celtic Myths, 1993)

Picture: Decorated Iron Age Celtic sword with swastikas unearthed in France.

German soldiers at a wine farm. WW1, Western Front, 1915.

"Life is a current of uninterrupted motion. Looking at its past as well as its present, the human eye sees only the surface: the deep, decisive currents and their sources are less visible—here, as everywhere, it is arduous to reach the core."

— Josip Horvat, History and Culture of the Croats Through 1000 Years (Economic and Social Life and Development in the 18th and 19th Century)

Picture: Ghosts of Hellas, 1900s, Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844–1927)

"Listen, lords, in bower and hall,
I sing the wonderous birth
Of brave St. George, whose valorous arm
Rid monsters from the earth"

— Richard Johnson (1597)

Happy St. George's Day!

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"The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen", Adam August Müller, 1830.

An unfinished portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David (c. 1797–1798).

Herbert Read and Kenneth Clark adopt the view that Romanticism is a permanent attitude that can be found everywhere. Kenneth Clark detects Romantic elements in certain verses of Hadrian, while Herbert Read presents a multitude of examples. Baron Seillière, who wrote extensively on this subject, cites passages from Plato, Plotinus, and the ancient Greek novelist Heliodorus, as well as many other authors, whom he regards as Romantic



Isaiah Berlin, «Roots of Romanticism», p.33

Year 1892. Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

A kettledrummer of the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment of Her Imperial Majesty Maria Feodorovna in full dress uniform with kettledrums.

By Willibald Wex (1831 - 1892), German

King Arthur, bronze sculpture by Peter Vischer the Elder, c. 1513; in the Hofkirche (Court Church), Innsbruck, Austria.

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Irish Easter card (ca. 1920) showing Ireland emerging from an egg.

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Rest in peace. Dear child of Europe, may your soul rest in eternal peace.

A Gallic warrior with his child. In “France, Its History Told by G. Montorgueil, Illustrated by Job” (1896).

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Evening in the Albanian Mountains - Louis Gurlitt, 1850.

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"I am an out-of-control patriotic folklorist in a country of degenerates, lackeys, and bastards!"

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline


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1) Scottish officer's broadsword, c1900

This sword bears several markers of Scottish identity. It's decorated with traditional symbols like the thistle (Scotland’s national flower) and the figure of St Andrew (the patron saint of Scotland) with his saltire cross.
The blade's design is based on the traditional Highland broadsword. Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in 1746, Highland culture had been suppressed. However, it underwent something of a revival in the 19th century, a period when military reforms were actively strengthening regiments’ links with their local communities.

Although The Royal Scots was a Lowland regiment, all Scottish units had begun to adopt elements of Highland Dress by the 1880s.

Also depicted on the blade is a boar’s head, a symbol taken from the coat of arms of the Gordon family. The boar featured on the coats of arms of many Scottish clans to signify bravery.

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