Ignorance in Full Display: Pete Hegseth Banning Norse Pagans
Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen // Bjorn Talks | 18 July 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmM_NG_iMVY
4:27 While not a Norse Pagan, I believe Odin was a real person.
Meaning the one who came to Gylfi and fooled him into believing he was a god or even one of three creator gods.
In objective favour of my position, Jackson Crawford (though he didn't refer to it) verified that the Deyr fé stanza in Havamal, which resembles Ecclesiastes closely (Praekeren in Norwegian) would have been metric even if reconstructed as Proto-Norse, around the time when Odin would have come.
I am also a bearded man whom some consider a weirdo. However, you show some ignorance of US slang, the wiktionary entry on "beardo" starts in 2006.*
So, I kind of feel a bit targetted ... indirectly.
7:41 I must say, I'm thankful that Christianity allows me to be a Critic of Science, for instance ditch Evolution (like on the scale of microbes to trees or the radicality of ape to man).
You do you of course, but one day God will call you out for not being a Geocentric and concluding He exists, turning the universe around us, like St. Paul says in Romans 1.
8:48 "it doesn't become extreme, it doesn't infringe on other people's rights"
Somewhat rich from a person who just called himself a science believer.
Between 1934 and 1977, a total of slightly less than 44,000 sterilization procedures were performed in Norway under the 1934 act.
Now, I'm citing one who claims that those who were targetted involuntarily were only c. 2000, but even 2000 is 2000 too many, in the name of science.**
10:29 "a fundamentalist attitude towards other people"
What is that supposed to mean, even?
Fundamentalism is normally used of an attitude to one's religious texts. If one has any.
But you sound as if meaning a brutal attitude against someone because he has a different religion, guess what, killing monks is pretty brutal, whether it's done by Norse Pagans or by Lutherans or Calvinists, and doing it because Gregorian is regarded as seiðr or because shaving the beard is regarded as unmanly is hardly a motivation that excludes some high degree of religious exclusivism. Perhaps this wasn't done all through the Viking age, but at least a part of it.
And a motivation involving the cutting down of Irminsul in Saxony sounds pretty much like solid Fundamentalism about Norse and Saxon hallows ...
11:36 Nah, cruel and evil are not always synonymous.
Franco was cruel, my grandpa argued, in 1975 when he died, because he used the vile garrote.***
Franco was good, my ma argued in 1984, when stopping me from joining De Molays, because he had abortion banned in Spain.
I don't see any totally irreconcilable thing between the two.
Besides, if cruel were evil, where does that leave Gudrun's revenge or Ivar Boneless' revenge and so on? I don't think St. Olaf went as far as to "rista blodsörn"
* https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=beardo&action=history
** https://www.eurozine.com/sterilization-in-norway-a-dark-chapter/
Citing further:
Free will was the guiding principle in the act. Physical coercion was not allowed. The person in question had to apply for or consent to the procedure him or herself – if he or she were able to do so – before the sterilization could be carried out. However, the act did open up for sterilization without consent of the “insane” and of persons of “deficient mental development and/or permanently impaired mental capacity”9 , but in these cases the procedure could not be carried out without the prior written consent of the person’s legal guardian or, if the legal guardian was incompetent, a person appointed to act on his or her behalf.
Mental institutions have a way of faking consent by extortion and things ... "dat don't impressin' me much" ... and in some cases the legal guardians could be foster parents aligned with the system rather than the patient.
*** Never the cruelty of forced sterilisation, though! In Badajoz, there was a case of castrations, but that was by ill disciplined troops, not on Franco's orders (and I'm not a fan of Yagüe under whose orders it happened, at all).
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