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This 'Viking prayer' is loosely based on the Arabian traveller Fahdlan's account of the visions of a thrall girl who was to become a blood sacrifice in her master's funeral rites. Its imagery does follow northern germanic heathen beliefs,and it is being used by Wodenists once again in modern times:
"Lo there do I see my father, Lo there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning! Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla! Where the brave may live forever!"
Mark Taylor went to Ravenswood School in Kent with, amongst others, David Bowie and Peter Frampton.
He enjoyed his time in the very first specialised school-based art form from where he progressed to study fine art at Croydon College Of Art.
His paintings have been internationally exhibited and featured on BBC programmes such as Country Tracks and The One Show.He has recently had his work displayed in a feature article in 'Pagan Dawn' magazine.