Pith in the Wind

Archives | RSS

  |  

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Politics Ron Ramsey—Nithing of the Week

Posted by on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM

Those Vikings were always making something out of nithing.
  • Those Vikings were always making something out of nithing.
Whew! I just had one of those "when worlds collide" moments when I was catching up on heathen blogger Hrafnkell Haraldsson's blog and saw that Haraldsson's Nithing of the Week this week is our own Ron Ramsey. This makes sense because — even if Ramsey was only saying that Islam might not be a religion — if Ramsey won't offer constitutional protections to one of the Big Three monotheistic religions, what does that signal for polytheists? Pagans get a little testy about stuff like that.

For those of you not up on your Viking insults, a "nithing" is a person who is completely without honor. Back in the day, if you ran into a dude like Ramsey, you could curse him by raising a "nithing pole." Famed occasionally-irrationally-irate poet and berserker Egill Skallagrímsson laid a nasty nithing pole curse on King Eric and Queen Gunnhilda and the spirits of the land they inhabited by nailing a horse's head to a rune-inscribed pole.

Bless Ramsey's heart, but I doubt any pagan these days would find him worth the horse.

Tags: , , ,

Comments (6)

Showing 1-6 of 6

Add a comment

 
Subscribe to this thread:
By Email
With RSS
Showing 1-6 of 6

Add a comment

Top Topics in
Pith in the Wind

Legislature (66)

Politics (49)

Phillips (40)

Education (36)

Around Town (24)

Media (21)

Law and Order (21)

Crazy Crap (14)

Sports (14)

Breaking News (13)

Top Commenters

The SouthComm Set Nfocus | The City Paper | LEO Weekly | NashvillePost.com | Medical News Papers

All contents © 1995-2013 City Press LLC, 210 12th Ave. S., Ste. 100, Nashville, TN 37203. (615) 244-7989.
All rights reserved. No part of this service may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of City Press LLC,
except that an individual may download and/or forward articles via email to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes.
Powered by Foundation