I have read with a sort of dread the Christian lies Snorri Sturluson invents or spread to smudge the truth and verity of crisp keen actual history with The Lie, from the Father of Lies — and it annoys me to study any history once corrupt Christian religoin has touched it. The Saga of the Volsungs is a strange beast! Deliciously pre-christian, and a whole ton of fun, to boot! "Pagan" if you like to call people by the jeers invented by their enemy, or simply, Honest People Believing their Own Religion, as they were then and remain today.
We know there is a whole genre of LIES invented by Christians, well-documented, foised against honest outspoken critics of the slanderous religion in which, like Jesus supposedly reviving when nobody was around to see, and nobody saw it at all, and none of the canonized stories even know who he ever "appeared" to first, or later, or at all — just mixed and false witnesses and a complete mess — so in the case of, say, that outspoken Scotsman David Hume, indireclty challenged the conceits and lies of the Christians who disguised their satanic religion as god's very truth; and who WARNED his friend, Gibbons, author of the great Decline Fall of the Roman Empire in EXPOSING the historical lies of the Christians when they muddled the annals of history again and again, and this with none-too-much skill, that the pious rabble, the masses, the DEMOS, the throngs would oppose him, so Hume spoke truly to to the hidden God, the secret Sublime, the BEST in Gibbon, to sing his song of truth softly, and in language more subtle, meant for subtler ears, not for the mean and the religiously conceited, but in truer strains lisped for those who take the pains to get the truth and the facts dear; who ask, What is Truth? Leaving the PRETENDER and LIAR stammering and silent: the Truth is not in you. That is why you do not know.
So, there is a pretended testimony for Hume that he wept at his death that Yahweh was secrelty his daddy and Jesus his best friend — and all this dribble, and Christians have LIED again and again, with their dreaded false genre, "Deathbed confessions" and I meant only to share one more, a clearly BOGUS claim, quite lame, of a LOVER of ODIN dying nobly, tortured to death by a Christian King, and though he NEVER gives in:
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Snorri Sturlson's Heimskringla, or Lives of the Norse Kings: "The History of Olav Trygvason" 76:
"Harekt of Tjotta went away from the town quickly as he could, but Hauk and Sigur stayed with the king [Olav, who is on a sort of Jihad of torturing and murdering anybody who won't "freely" submit to a conversion of heart on the spot and immediate baptism from "sin"] and let themselves be baptized. Harek went his way till he came to Tjotta. He sent a messenger to his friend Eyvind Rough-chin and bad him tell Eyvind that Harekt had found King Olav, and that he had not let himself be cowed into taking up Christianity. Harek also bade the messenger tell Eyvind that Olav thought of going against them with an army in the summer and that they must show wariness, and he bade Eyvind come to him as soon as possible. And when these tidings were borne to Eyvind he said that no king should get the upper hand over them. So Eyvind went as quickly as possible with a light skiff and a few men in it. And when he came to Tjotta, Harek greeted him well; and Harek and he straightway fell to talking on the other side of the farm. And when they had talked together for a short time, there came Olav's men who had followed Harek north; they took Eyvind prisoner, put him in a ship with them and went away to the south with him. They did not stop their journey untl the came to Trondheim, and found King Olav in Nidaros. Eyvind was then brought to talk with King Olav in Nidaros. Eyvind was then brought to a talk with King Olav, who bade him be baptized like other men. To that Eyvind answered 'nay.' The king then bade him with many blithe words take up Christianity and told him many good grounds for it, and the bishop did likewise. But Eyvind did not agree. The king then offered him gifts and great land rents, but Eyvind turned everything from him. So the king vowed him injury or death, but Eyvind did not give way. After that the king had a bowl brought in, full of glowing cinders, and set it on Eyvind's stomach and very soon the stomach burst asunder. Then said Eyvind: "Take the bowl from me: I will speak some words ere I die"; and so it was done. Then the king asked him, "Eyvind, wilt thou now believe in Christ?" "Nay," he said, "I cannot receive baptism; I am a spirit quickened in a man's body by the wizardy of the Finns, for my father and mother had no child before that was done." After that Eyvind died and he had been the most troll-wise of men.
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Of course, insofar as a historian is a Christian, he is a liar. This History himself has proven and again. The discipline of history and serious intelectually sound scholarship has long come to detect the poachings and encroachments and impositions and the lies, lies, LIES from the Father of Lies, Jesus Satan Christ, and the Doctors of the Church, who ever doctor the evidence and hide the corpses they make. But this is annoying. This man King Olav TORTURED to death. Olav arrested the man, who had committed no crime, and tortured him to death, hoping he would "Choose" to curse Odin. The man refused. So, to avoid appearing the LOSER he is, the historian saves face be pretending this was never a man but an animated corpse enchanted by trolls.
Surely it is us, posterity, he is trolling!
All hail Eyvind Rough-chin, who held his own against a very king, his whole army, clergy, chains, abuse, and torture unto death. We are stronger than you.