While presenting the structure of a vital Heathenry we need to look at the nature of the souls who inhabit that landscape. We have already shown that the runes and sovereign skills are the inheritance of Jarl. There is no split-personality insistance that poverty, neediness, and emptiness are signs of spiritual virtue. The Mysteries and the Holy are really revealed to those who have an active connection to past achievement and present vitality.

Rigsthula stanzas 26 to 32 describe the home and people to where Rig strode and guested. There was a southward-facing door which according to Hollander's notes was an omen of good luck. There is a ring on the doorpost. The interior is well-kept and furnished compared to the earlier homes that Rig visited. We are shown that the parents of Jarl, Father and Mother, are in love. Father and Mother 'gazed at each other.' (stannza 27) Hollander interprets, 'With their fingers playing'(stanza 27) as being signs of privelaged idleness. I think they were holding hands. Father is maintaining his weapons and they are both well-dressed. There is ample food.

"there was wine in a crock + + + + were the cups gold-plated;

they drank and chatted + + + + till the day was ended."

(Stanza 32)

The visit from Rig is followed by the birth of Jarl.

"A son bore Mother, + + + + in silk they swathed him,

sprinkled him with water + + + + and called him Jarl,

Was his hair flaxen, + + + + and fair his cheek,

his eyes awfully + + + + like an adder's, blazed."

(stanza 35)

Note that sprinlking with water is a Heathen custom of blessing that precedes the adoption of the custom by christianity. Hollander's notes poin out that flashing eyes were a sure sign of nobility, according to Tacitus.

Stanzas 36 to 38 give the developing and applied sovereign skills of Jarl and the previously given return of Rig to teach the young Jarl runes. This was fortunate and successful for Jarl.

"He made himself master + + + + of manors eighteen,

gan share his wealth + + + + and shower it on all:

silver and gold + + + + and slender steeds;

squandered arm rings + + + + and scattered gold."

(stanza 39)

This ethical statement of the successful being generous is important to the balance maintaining considerations of Teutonic lore. The Old English account of a Scandanavian adventure, 'Beowulf' is raich in events of shared wealth as an aspect of courage and nobility. We will look at this again later.