QUIET AS THE ELVES

 

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THIS IS A STORYBOARD FOR A VIDEO

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>>> The Narrator is a Western‑Slavic / Baltic‑Nordic chronicler who has lived too long with too many secrets and is now calmly reporting absurd history as if it were weather data. He is not whimsical. He is not dramatic. He is not impressed. He is the last librarian of a civilization that survived by being quiet.

He is dressed like Radagast the Brown — layered furs and leather, earth‑tones, twigs in his hair and ferns growing out of cracks in the wall. The video view is from the front row of a tiny old timey lecture hall. The narrator stands beside a chalkboard, pointing with a wizard’s wand that extends and retracts magically. 

Warm torchlight mixes with cold daylight from a small window. Camera scans this list slow enough to read all the names.

      OXHORKEN/OXOHEARTSVOKEN

Groniger Bloodaxe                            914-1014

Groniger Bloodaxe Junior               975-1076

Gronyger Bloodaxe 3rd                         1011-1105

 Gronyagar Bloodeax 4th                      1083-1168

Gronyagar  Bloodeax 5th                      1118-1230?   Black eyes

Gronyar Bloodeau Sr.                            1181-1259

Gronyar Bloodeau Jr.                            1211-1291  

Gronyagar Bloodeau 3rd                       1276-1374

Gronyagar Brousseau                       1350-1434?      

>>> the narrator says this as Groniger (Gron uh Grr) chisels   

> Groniger founded the Bloodaxe kin in the mid-nine-hundred's, (pause) dwelling amongst the eastern edges of the Northmen. The Baltic Sea was their watery realm and the clans dwelled amidst the Swedish fjords and islands, and vandered unto Gotland Isle and in Lithuania, nigh the Courish Spit. Atwixt it all, there dwelt a goldsmith they knew in Jomsburg, which lieth near Polin, Poland, close by present day Gdansk.“

 >> We see a torchlight coming out of the woods, held by his wife, Dagmar.  Several scimitar clad Iberian guards stand nearby. 

> “Vhat’s it say?” she asks? He was done. He stood up and they faced each other 

“Ate many Ox today” 

 “Okay let’s get you home”

 ᚨᛏᛖ ᛗᚨᚾᛃ ᛟᚷ 

 >> His hair is completely encased in ice. They walk back into the forest and Dagmars Druidess companions were waiting and pulled back two very large moss covered evergreen branches to reveal the actual path back to their town while the visible path ends in brambles several hundred feet away. 

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>> It was in Lithuania that Groniger met his wife Dagmar Oxhorken who was known as a Gypsy Queen.  The Oxhorken clan was believed to have ties with an ancient goddess civilization that migrated from the Black Sea region many thousands of years ago. Sailing in small crude wersions of the longboat in Eastern Europe’s rivers, the Oxhorken clan is reputed to have reached the Baltic Sea 8,200 Years ago when Polena heard the Song of Oooglok.  

 Many thousands of years later it was in present-day Lithuania that Groniger met his wife Dagmar Oxhorken who was known as a Gypsy Queen.  The Oxhorken clan was believed to have ties with an ancient goddess civilization that migrated from the Black Sea region many thousands of years ago. Sailing in small crude wersions of the longboat up the Danube and then the Vistula, the Oxhorken clan is reputed to have reached the Baltic Sea 8,200 Years ago.  

   >"Kernave, Samland, and Jomsborg were amongst the hamlets visited by Groniger and his family. Naught but mostly, he and Dagmar didst raise their five younglings: Gronyeth, Gakanrth, Gronierss, Gronstangr, and Gakhorken, within the western fjords and Snuflesnes peninsula of Sweden.

 >>> We see antlers and double axes in Dagmars lodge. 

> Groniger is stretching Reindeer skin to make a drum. Dagmar discusses foreign trade with several guests from the African-Iberian Alliance. Malian sailors under the Ghanian flag have a 20 ship flotilla sitting offshore and the Druidesses are there with her. The talk was of a New Found Land in the western realms.  No ships dared the storms, except one. 

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>>> back to the narrators slate we see these two names  Groniger Bloodaxe Junior  975-1076 > 975-1076

Tis said , Junior was a droll, humorless toiler of the soil (others say say grim and witless).

He amassed a vast expanse of land where his many children slaved during the growing season, and by their hands alone they wrought the province of Axdruva.

Gronyger Bloodaxe 3rd                         1011-1105

Unlike his stay at home siblings in the burgeoning Axdruvan lands, he vas a sailor who often travelled out to the Baltic Sea in his boat, The Groggy Trollop, and this salty gent often came home with tales of sea monsters.    

>> Many a merry journey was made unto the summer magick fest upon Gotland Island, and one frothy tale harkens the day his friend Gakhorken fought a great sea beast using only the Halyard. 

 In his later years, Groniger III's jesting gained a mighty renown, specially at Solstice, when he played the mock bishop unto crowds so thick, no man couldst find room to stand. 

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>> Black dudes black hair and black eyes drop off sacks loaded down with onion and potatoe. Long haired Druidesses reminiscent of the Vril women inspect the goods.  Dagmar and the  Iberian sailors then go off to trod the wood. SCENERY  -- frozen marshes ,,, then finally we come upon a clearing. Horses in the far distance and what looks like maybe a Mammoth in the really far distance. Can't really quite tell.
We see rune stones for directions as the amble through dense Pine forests

> The crew walked through the forest and came upon a clearing where Reindeer and Red Deer were frolicking along a 20 foot glacial wall of ice about 100 feet away. Way off in the distance we see what could be mammoths but ve are not quite sure.

She then leadeth them unto a brook where folk were panning for gold in the quiet, gentle stream.  (pause) They have bartered the rock for hempen sacks of mostly potatoes from Ireland. Dagmar gives the Malian sailor about an ounce of gold flecks they had found that day and Groniger points off into the distance up river.   

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Gronyagar  Bloodeax                            1118-1230? 

Kinfolk of the clan were mariners of some notorious repute. As the Templars passed through in the twelve hundreds with their hordes and halyards, the Oxhorken clan and the Black Irish allies in Western Ireland did aid the rebel Templer/Malian voyages to the Beyond. And thus, Gronigers people gathered unto their hidden faith more customs. Gronyagar(Gron yay gar) was the last of the Bloodaxe; and  the  clan didst take unto their secret creed more ways, which may yet bide with us this very day. 

 The thirteen sons of Gronyagar, those Bloodaxe heathen knights, didst hide their pagan roots, and their name was made Frankish to Bloodeax. These thirteen brethren became guardians of many a downtrodden and sorely vexed folk.

    Giving vain words unto the conquering Christians, they did keep far from them and tasted every joy of life, vandering betwixt the Eastern Baltic and the lands of the Languedoc. Yet, instead of Bloodeax, his children were named Bloodeaus, and later Brousseau when some kin journeyed to Canada in the 1600’s. They rode their steeds from France unto Lithuania. 

  

People from their part of the fjords and the Courish Spit (patooie) were independent and eschewed Chritianity and felt more at home in Lithuania which was the last Pagan-led country in Europe.

Unwerified copies of rune manuscript are somevhat uncertain as to where this family actually lived, but the name change indicated a general move southward.

Gronyagar  Bloodeax                1118-1230? 

> Now mark this fellow. The longest lived and perhaps the strangest of all. He was the first man to declareth, 'Had I known I should live so long, I w(v)ould have tended mine flesh with greater care.' Strange lore doth suggest the Bloodaxes draw their kin from the last of the Druids who fled north unto the Deep woods. Alathar ran off with Grimhammers kin. Verily, 'twas a band of Druidesses who escaped the wrath of those madmen, and their seed did remain. 

Originally, the escaping Elder Druids found shelter with the Axborgan and Oxhorken clans in the four hundreds, when Christian treachery was rife with ungodly violence and spreading like a plague. Grimhammer was betrayed amongst other wicked deeds.

 The Bloodaxes loved, not plundering nor war; but to toil upon the earth and to wander far, and stay hidden from the ravages of that age. They went as far back into the deep forests as they needed to be. Twas good fortune when the Plague came along in the 1240’s and they found it easy to be isolated.

 

 he was reputed to be 110 years old and still hunting squirrels for the traditional Squirrel Breakfast Sandwich, (pause) and his date of demise is uncertain. He said he was going to jump off the cliff, as was the tradition, then waved goodbye and walked off. As was the custom none mourned, and all respected his privacy. But it’s believed he went further north to be a hermit in one of the ancestors’ caves and may have lived 18 more years to 130 as the story is told.  

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 we go outside this is where we see Polena Rangers setting out for a journey as narrator continues

>As they waxed old, the sons of the Pagan Knights bore numerous daughters of passing stout will, who allegedly revived the olden rites of the Oxhorkens and named themselves, Polena Rangers, after the famed Empress Polena from their tales of the ancient days. Their sacred host of thirty and three riders endured these three hundred years. Always back to the bogs if trouble breweth.

Three women fashioned each piece. Eleven pieces did exist within the 33. Venus, Diana, and Hecate dwelt in every band. The Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. The triple goddess. A manner of ordering, much like the Mongols who didst bark at their tree.

 These daughters became an esoteric cult of horse-riding women through the 1200’s, a messenger band, keeping the Oxhorns, Bloodeaus, Oxborgans, and Axhorkens in speech with one another. They rode horses from Languedoc unto Kernave, and on secret paths to many lands, following the olden ways of Atlanian villages and the ancient paths unto the Black Sea. Many a mystery doth dwell upon their wanderings. Jomborg seemed abandoned, Sweden and Finland became powerful violent kingdoms and to find rest amidst this folly was to be enlightened.

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They sought naught but where the bloodthirsty zealots trod not, desiring only peace. They did fish, farm, hunt, and gather from the bountiful earth that giveth much. First came the Baltic Crusade, then the Mongols and even the Ottoman foe drew passing near. The Mongols were poor fighters in the woods and were struck with great terror by ghostly sounds. riders emerging silently from forests “they doth were weary, their horses dragging the arrow filled bodies” wrote a chronicler from that era.

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>>>   hidden waystations
coded symbols on trees
crossing frozen bogs under moonlight
smuggling fugitives
carrying forbidden texts

>> Narrator voice is fading as if dying 

>  Deeply hidden in the forests, there are no further exploits of this family to be reported on till 1385 when Gronyar Bloodeau the 4th (1350-1434?) became the most famous of all before his disappearance. He created Druddism and this new religion grew quickly in popularity. There were Lithuanian pagan beliefs mixed with new inspirations from St. Francis, along with Ancient Oxhorn Goddess ceremonies, not to mentionsecret Cathar ceremonies and Templar spells. The whole Magilla.

We see the typical st   Francis  Animals abounding, we are close up enough to see his black eyes and dark brown hair. We are getting near the end we see a vignette of scenes

a myth of cultural disappearance and survival.   

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Also included in his only book was a tradition of earth worship which went back to the time of the Atlanis Empire, and a nearly lost Druid secret society. 
>>>NARRATOR pulls ANCIENT LOOKING BOOK off a shelf

In a more serious, dramatic tone      

>>Gronyar’s secret faith left but naught but one scroll. The Oxoheartsvoken.    Within his lone tome lay a tale of earth-worship from the days of Atlanis, even a ritual from a Druid brotherhood nigh lost to time. Men whisper that their rites endure even now, within a hidden Green Cult. His most famed tract was penned as a final word to all kin in the hamlets. Its dark tidings foretold the death of Pagans in Europe. His Book endeth...

NARRATOR READETH FROM ANCIENT BOOK

"'Tis all ended, save for the quenching of sacred fires. Studies didst showeth that Ragnarok didst come at the turn of the age in 999 A.D., when the Faeroes fell and Eric the Red didst turn. We be the last scraps of truth. The Goddess’s light shall vanish, for a thousand-year reign of devils shall bring great wars, breeding guilt and much hypocrisy, and a third great war shall rise to hide their sins." A bit of prophecy, there. 

"Groniger continueth" He wrote: "Guard thou the women, the midwives, and the wise-herb women, for we see our sisters burned as witches. They speak the word 'witch' as an ill thing, which I cannot comprehend. "

The Narrator pauseath. The text endeth here, and the middle half of the prophecy is but a mystery. His book endeth with these words: "Tread close to the sacred river-ways, and (pregnant pause) be as quiet as the elves."         ᛒᛁᚱᚦ ᛞᛖᚦ ᛚᛟᚢᛖ