ullr not god of snow

Italian Festival ‘La Madonna Della Neve’ Celebrates That One Time Ancient Rome Saw Snowfall in August, 358 A.D.

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Many readers at SnowBrains will have heard of Ullr, the Norse God of snow. You might even recall we had an article on Skadi, Goddess of snow. Either way, it might be news to you that actually, it is Christianity’s own virgin Mary that according to this Italian legend can bring snow. Last weekend a festival was celebrated all over […]
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Ready The Winter Sacrifice! | The God of Winter is Not Ullr; It’s Skadi

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Winter sacrifice? You’re doing it wrong. There is a reason that Wikipedia isn’t an accepted source for academia, it is very capable of being wrong. There are 4 main available works and many interpretive Norse guides based on those works. Those works include The Poetic Edda (10th – 13th century), The Prose Edda recorded by Snorri Sturluson (approx. 1220), The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson (approx. 1230) and Saxo Grammaticus’s The History of the Danes […]
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