FROM THE EDITOR

Heilsan Folk!

It is my sincere desire that this Autumntide finds you and yours enjoying sound health, stalwart dispositions and constitutions forged from Thor's Hammer, Mjollnir!

The Winter Nights have come and gone and old man winter is on his way. In the elder days of yore, in the lands of our father's fathers, this time of the year was the harbinger of the savage lean times to come.   Clans and kindreds of families pooled their resources in earnest endeavor to avoid starvation and stave off devastating diseases and even death.   Today, wherever we may reside in the western world, the opportunity for plenty abounds.   Often we forget this or simply take for granted not only what our ancestors had to endure. But also what many of our Folk in the old Eastern Block countries must still endure.   Even closer to home, wherever that might be, we are never without crisis for our folk somewhere! Here in Lower Vinland (U.S.) we are facing a 700 billion dollar financial crisis, the inflated cost of living, gas and heating fuel and food, all due to a failing and fastly collapsing infrastructure brought on by the mismanage¬ment of corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisles and a greedy banking system which has reduced our currency to a nearly worthless joke lacking any hard and substantial backing such as the gold standard.   I have always refrained from using this noble vehicle as a means to air my own personal or political views; And so it shall remain.   I raise the aforementioned only as it certainly applies to us all at this place in time here in Vinland as does it apply thematically with the lean times of our ancestors in days of yore at this time of the year.

We can all consider just how we might make it through the very real lean times with which we are faced now and in the coming future.   More importantly, we and our families would be well served by devising and implementing some sound alternatives to our dependency upon the government's good sense of humor and management skills!

Get creative and tighten those belts, folks. Cause the lean times are a here and they'll still be here this time next year.

May Odin bless you all and may your Hammers strike Trú!

Othinn Býr (Odin Lives)!

I remain fraternally yours, in service and frith.

In Frith & Service,

Dr. Casper Odinson Cröwell, 1519-CCG
Chief Court Gothi, HNO and 1519
National Chairman, Vinland Folk Resistance
and Mrs. Crowell, Executive Administrator