Monday, August 23, 2021

Rendered

 Pee on the tree, wannabefree yer kinda exemplary,

Footloose paw dank cellar that's not stillwater

Fucktoad Hollywood: paired blights.



Bonked Century

 

A big boquet is better than me,

Apparently foresee right now in frontame 

Yo high hydrangeas and sundry fragile dahlias

How few hours until the mop?

Peony, please a primrose math subtracts feetmints, pre-n-proscribed 

Doth thou tee shirt signify retardation in that it don't get it, bonked like a century?


FLB

Se pdx





Sunday, August 15, 2021

Saturday, August 14, 2021

Friday, August 13, 2021

gummyskullgolgothas

no fear on fire, no char yet charted,

a haze just plays

as the mantis slays the clock

under a melting orange moon

nailclippership hoisting the damask

upndown all theatrical,

streaming freely like the pirate

scowl tattoo one gets in the gum pack

lost in a larder of anchovy skeletons

and gummyskullgolgothas

they eschew in philOsofist classes online, i hear



hood river, oregon

8-13-21

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Oregon, Human Rights Campaign, Cuomo, Anita Dunn, NSO Spyware, Murder and Kompromat Racketeering INC., oh and No Ice Cream

 "Bean still faces criminal accusations that he sexually abused the teenager in the Eugene motel room in 2013. The original case was dropped when the teenager didn’t show for the trial, but a grand jury re-indicted Bean in 2019. He’s pleaded not guilty third-degree sexual abuse and two counts of third-degree sodomy.

 A trial in that case has been set for Jan. 11, 2022.


Bean is a fifth-generation Oregonian, a big Democratic fundraiser and a well-known gay rights activist. 

He also is president of Bean Investment Real Estate, which is based in downtown Portland and owns “in partnership” more than 6,000 multifamily property units in the western U.S., according to his company’s website"

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/05/judge-dismisses-criminal-charge-against-veteran-lawyer-derek-ashton-but-sanctions-him-for-acting-in-contempt-of-court.html

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"According to the Associated Press, Bean is a Portland real estate developer who helped found two national political groups, the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund."

https://katu.com/news/local/police-arrest-prominent-gay-activist-terry-bean-and-his-former-lawyer


https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026461008/cuomo-scandal-prompts-reckoning-at-lgbtq-group-human-rights-campaign 


"Alphonso David, who leads the Human Rights Campaign, remains in his position. David is a former adviser and legal counsel to Cuomo.

 An investigation by the New York Attorney General connected David to multiple attempts by Cuomo and his advisers to retaliate against women who accused Cuomo of sexual harassment. 

In one instance, the report states, David shared confidential personnel records regarding one Cuomo accuser with Cuomo's aides. Those aides allegedly leaked the accuser's records to the media.

 In another instance cited in the report, David participated in discussions about a letter that would attack the accuser's credibility."

ALSO, today: 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/12/biden-adviser-anita-dunn-white-house-504216

"Dunn was by Biden’s side through his campaign and was pivotal in the early days of his presidency as he constructed his administration.

 The senior adviser played a key role in placing women in senior roles throughout the West Wing."

***

"Ahead of reporting in The New York Times about Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual abuse, Weinstein reached out to Dunn for public relations advice. 

Dunn told Weinstein "you should accept your fate graciously, and not seek to deny or discredit those who your behavior has affected."

 Dunn's firm stated that she was not paid for this, "was asked to speak with him by a friend"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn 

"Among the major clients the firm took on were General Electric, AT&T, Time Warner, and Pratt & Whitney.

 In particular, SKDKnickerbocker corporate clients have included such controversial companies as the for-profit Kaplan University and TransCanada Corp., the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline.

At the same time that Kaplan Education hired SKDK to block Obama's crackdown on predatory for-profit colleges, Dunn was known as “a close friend of President Obama.”


Other SKD Knickerbocker clients include New York City landlords and real estate associations resisting stronger rent protections for tenants,

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/567695-supreme-court-blocks-part-of-new-yorks-eviction-moratorium 

 big food companies such as General Mills, Pepsi Co, Nestle, Kellogg, Viacom, and McDonalds in their fight to resist Obama-era nutritional standards for marketing foods to children, and Google and Pfizer in their campaign to cut taxes on foreign profits."

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9801185/Israeli-firm-Pegasus-spyware-paid-Biden-adviser-Anita-Dunn-PR-advice.htm

"REVEALED: Israeli firm behind Pegasus spyware used to hack US journalists, politicians and widow of Jamal Khashoggi also paid Biden adviser Anita Dunn for political consulting advice

NSO, the private Israeli firm behind the controversial spyware Pegasus, had previously launched a public relations crusade led by SKDKnickerbocker

White House senior adviser Anita Dunn is the managing director of SKDKnickerbocker, which coordinated public relations efforts by NSO in 2019"

Media outlets investigated a data leak exposing possible targets of NSO clients using its spyware

The leak was of a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers and included journalists and politicians 

Women on the list were close to murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9801185/Israeli-firm-Pegasus-spyware-paid-Biden-adviser-Anita-Dunn-PR-advice.html


"The Oregon state employee pension fund is one of the largest investors, if not the largest, having sunk $233 million into Novalpina Capital, the private equity firm, in 2017."

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/08/oregon-treasury-wades-into-discussions-over-pers-investment-in-controversial-spyware-company.html

"Oregon was Novalpina’s first major investor. Stephen Peel and Stefan Kowski, two founding Novalpina Capital partners, showed up at Oregon treasury offices in the Portland suburb of Tigard in November 2017 to make a pitch to the Oregon Investment Council, which oversees the state’s $90 billion pension fund."

***

"The Washington Post was one of the first outlets to break the story, publishing a 4,000-word dive into the spyware and its influence. 


However, the article failed to include any information about NSO's ties to President Joe Biden's senior adviser."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9801185/Israeli-firm-Pegasus-spyware-paid-Biden-adviser-Anita-Dunn-PR-advice.html 

_______


"a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. 

The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio.

 Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison."


"The bill’s co-sponsors include the senior Democrat in Washington, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, his New York colleague Kirsten Gillibrand, and several of the Senate’s more liberal members, such as Ron Wyden of Oregon,

  Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Maria Cantwell of Washington. 

Illustrating the bipartisanship that AIPAC typically summons, it also includes several of the most right-wing senators such as Ted Cruz of Texas, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Marco Rubio of Florida."

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/19/u-s-lawmakers-seek-to-criminally-outlaw-support-for-boycott-campaign-against-israel/ 

***

"Erdan said Israel views the company’s decision as “the de-facto adoption of anti-Semitic practices and advancement of the de-legitimization of the Jewish state and the dehumanization of the Jewish people.”

https://apnews.com/article/ben-jerrys-israel-west-bank-east-jerusalem-879a896549a304ba34223a95a593c391 

____

"The company’s PR is currently being done by Mercury Public Affairs, where retired Sen. Barbara Boxer is a co-chair and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is a partner.

 Mercury, which receives $120,000 monthly to represent NSO, did not respond to a request for comment

https://prospect.org/power/biden-advisers-ride-on-pegasus-nso-spyware/ 


The list possibly includes one current White House official. 

Anita Dunn took a leave of absence from her consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker and joined the Biden White House in January as a senior adviser. Her firm advised NSO Group in 2019. 

It’s unclear whether she personally worked for the company. Dunn has circumvented federal ethics rules that require disclosures of income, assets, and clients by serving as a temporary employee in the executive branch and taking a salary just below a threshold that would require public filings.

 She says she plans to leave the White House "soon."


Dunn’s firm defended NSO on the record. Even if she may have not been directly working for NSO, Dunn was willing to lend her name—hers is the D in SKDK—to repair the company’s image. 

“What sets NSO apart from many other cyber technology firms is its commitment to an ethical business framework that relies on the expertise of people with national security and intelligence backgrounds from around the world to evaluate potential customers and review current customers,” Dunn’s firm told The Intercept in 2019. SKDK declined to comment to the Prospect."





Tuesday, August 10, 2021

oil party

 "So today, I’ve come to Cushing, an oil town -- (applause) -- because producing more oil and gas here at home has been, and will continue to be, a critical part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy.  (Applause.)


Now, under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years.  (Applause.)  That's important to know.  

Over the last three years, I’ve directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. 

 We’re opening up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources offshore.  We’ve quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high.  

We’ve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some."

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/22/remarks-president-american-made-energy

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/22/remarks-president-american-made-energy 


"So we are drilling all over the place -- right now."

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Saturday, August 07, 2021

γοητεία (goēteía)

 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goetia#Latin 

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γοητεία (goēteía, “witchcraft”), from γόης (góēs, “sorceror”).


Noun

goētīa f


magic, sorcery, witchcraft

Usage notes

Goetia typically refers to black magic, demonic magic, or necromancy, in contrast to theurgia (theurgy) or magia naturalis (natural magic)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon 

"The Latin term goetia refers to the evocation of demons or evil spirits. It is derived from the Ancient Greek word γοητεία (goēteía) meaning "witchcraft" or "jugglery".


In medieval and Renaissance Europe, goetia was generally considered evil and heretical, in contrast to theurgia (theurgy) and magia naturalis (natural magic), which were sometimes considered more noble.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, in his Three Books of Occult Philosophy, writes "Now the parts of ceremonial magic are goetia and theurgia. 

Goetia is unfortunate, by the commerces of unclean spirits made up of the rites of wicked curiosities, unlawful charms, and deprecations, and is abandoned and execrated by all laws."

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earwig hook trout

sesh chemi- launch

star luciferian commere (godmater)

maculation ply hinder

admission tree sympathy

____

"Goel (Hebrew: גואל, lit. "redeemer"), in the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinical tradition, is a person who, as the nearest relative of another, is charged with the duty of restoring the rights of another and avenging his wrongs. One duty of the goel was to redeem (purchase back) a relative who had been sold into slavery. 

Another was to avenge the death of a relative who had been wrongly killed; one carrying out this vengeance was known as the goel hadam, commonly translated to English as "avenger of blood".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goel 

"Gottfried "Götz" von Berlichingen (1480 – 23 July 1562), also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, was a German (Franconian) Imperial Knight (Reichsritter), mercenary, and poet.

 He was born around 1480 into the noble family of Berlichingen in modern-day Baden-Württemberg. Götz bought Hornberg Castle (Neckarzimmern) in 1517, and lived there until his death in 1562.


He was active in numerous military campaigns during a period of 47 years from 1498 to 1544, including the German Peasants' War, besides numerous feuds; in his autobiography he estimates that he fought 15 feuds in his own name, besides many cases where he lent assistance to his friends, including feuds against the cities of Cologne, Ulm, Augsburg and the Swabian League, as well as the bishop of Bamberg.


His name became famous as a euphemism for a vulgar expression (Er kann mich am Arsch lecken – "He can lick my ass") attributed to him by writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), who wrote a play based on his life"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingen 

"In the ancient Hebraic context, it was considered the duty of the individual and family to avenge evil on behalf of God. 

The executor of the law of blood-revenge who personally put the initial killer to death was given a special designation: go'el haddam, the blood-avenger or blood-redeemer (Book of Numbers 35: 19, etc.). 

Six Cities of Refuge were established to provide protection and due process for any unintentional manslayers. The avenger was forbidden from harming the unintentional killer if the killer took refuge in one of these cities. 

As the Oxford Companion to the Bible states: "Since life was viewed as sacred (Genesis 9.6), no amount of blood money could be given as recompense for the loss of the life of an innocent person; it had to be "life for life" (Exodus 21.23; Deuteronomy 19.21)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud

"The Celtic phenomenon of the blood feud demanded "an eye for an eye," 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud

"An alternative to feud was blood money (or weregild in the Norse culture), which demanded payment of some kind from those responsible for a wrongful death, even an accidental one. If these payments were not made, or were refused by the offended party, a blood feud would ensue."

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"Please, wipe my ass" said the Goetz

______


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my bow, by Conrad Gotz, age unknown. lettering on the frog of the bow has been all but worn off, as it has been played by me since 1980 and in the past 10 months, in use outdoors busking for approx. 1000 hours.

not that an iron hand would damage wood.




Wednesday, August 04, 2021

bloetgoet

 "Various forms of rituals were presumably practised on small farms, but the larger ceremonies took place at the magnates’ residences. Here the farmers of the area met on certain occasions to worship the gods in a great sacrifice known as a “blót”. 

At the great blót celebrations the local magnate functioned as a ”Gode” (pagan priest) – the practitioner of the cult."

_____

"Cult specialists were closely connected to the gods. The sagas and archaeological finds show that völur or seeresses existed. These were women with magical and prophetic powers.

 In the sagas and on rune stones great men are also mentioned known as “Goder”, or heathen priests, who functioned as cult leaders. Therefore both men and women could be specialists in cultic activities."

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https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/the-viking-blot-sacrifices/

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"Harald I Fairhair (Old Norse: Haraldr inn hárfagri; Norwegian: Harald hårfagre; putatively c. 850 – c. 932) is portrayed by the Icelandic sagas as the first King of Norway.

According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, he reigned from c. 872 to 930.

 Supposedly, two of his sons, Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, succeeded Harald, respectively, to become kings after his death."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Fairhair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_the_Good 

"Haakon Haraldsson (c. 920–961), also Haakon the Good (Old Norse: Hákon góði, Norwegian: Håkon den gode) and Haakon Adalsteinfostre (Old Norse: Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri, Norwegian: Håkon Adalsteinsfostre), was the king of Norway from 934 to 961. He was noted for his attempts to introduce Christianity into Norway."


"Blot-Sweyn (Swedish:Blot-Sven) was a Swedish king c. 1080,[2] who replaced his Christian brother-in-law Inge as King of Sweden, when Inge had refused to administer the blóts (pagan sacrifices) at the Temple at Uppsala. There is no mention of Sweyn in the regnal list of the Westrogothic law, which suggests that his rule did not reach Västergötland.

 According to Swedish historian Adolf Schück he was probably the same person as Håkan the Red and was called the Blót Swain (a swain who was willing to perform the blót) as an epithet rather than a personal name."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blot-Sweyn 

"The 13th-century historian Snorri Sturlusson wrote in the Heimskringla that Blót-Sweyn had a pagan successor who continued the sacrifices:

"At that time there were many people all around in the Swedish dominions who were heathens, and many were bad Christians; for there were some of the kings who renounced Christianity, and continued heathen sacrifices, as Blotsvein, and afterwards Eirik Arsale, had done."

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"The most reliable sources about the goðar in Iceland are the Gray Goose Laws, the Landnámabók and the Sturlunga saga.

 After the settlement of Iceland, a hofgoði was usually a wealthy and respected man in his district, for he had to maintain the communal hall or hof in which community religious observances and feasts were held.

 The office over which a goði had leadership was termed a goðorð, a word that only appears in Icelandic sources

 Initially many independent goðorð were established, until they united under the Althing around 930. In 964 the system was fixed under a constitution that recognized 39 goðorð.

 The role of the goðar as secular leaders is shown in how the word was used synonymously with höfðingi, meaning chieftain.

 Over time, and especially after 1000, when the Christian conversion occurred in Iceland, the term lost all religious connotations and came to mean liege-lord or chieftain of the Icelandic Commonwealth.

 A goðorð could be bought, shared, traded or inherited.

 If a woman inherited a goðorð she had to leave the leadership to a man.

 The office was in many respects treated as private property but was not counted as taxable, and is defined in the Gray Goose Laws as "power and not wealth" (veldi er þat en æigi fe); nevertheless the goðar are frequently portrayed in the sagas as concerned with money and expected to be paid for their services.

During the Icelandic Commonwealth, the responsibilities of a goði or goðorðsmaður ("goðorð man") included the annual organization of the local assemblies várþing in the spring and leið in the autumn.

 At the national Althing they were voting members of the Lögrétta, the legislative section of the assembly. When quarter courts were introduced in the 960s, the goðar became responsible for nominating judges for the Althing courts. When a court of appeals was established in the early 11th century, they also nominated judges for this court. 

Further, they had a few formal and informal executive roles, such as confiscating the property of outlaws. They also had a central role in the redistribution of wealth, by holding feasts, giving gifts, making loans, extending hospitality, as well as pricing and helping to distribute imported goods.

The holder of the goðorð of the descendants Ingólfr Arnarson, the first Scandinavian to settle permanently in Iceland, had the ceremonial role of sanctifying the Althing each year, and was called the allsherjargoði ("all-people goði").

 The followers of a goði were called þingmenn. Every free landowner in possession of a certain amount of property was required to be associated with a goði, although he was free to choose which one—a goðorð was not a geographical unit—and the contract could be canceled from either side. 

The goði would help his þingmenn to bring cases before the court and to enforce their rights, and the þingmenn would in return provide the goði with armed manpower for his feuds and carry out legal sentences.

By the 13th century, all the goðorð were controlled by five or six families and often united under office holders who in modern studies are known as storgoðar ("great goðar") or storhöfðingjar ("great chieftains"). 

These goðar struggled for regional and sometimes national power, and occasionally sought to become retainers for the Norwegian king.

 The institution came to an end when the major goðar pledged fealty to king Haakon IV of Norway in 1262–1264, signing the Old Covenant, and the Norwegian crown abolished the goðorð system"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothi 

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"Jan Hendrick Bloetgoet (Bloedgoed)

Dutch: Jan Hendrickse Bloetgoet

Also Known As: "Jan Heyndricksz Goetbloet", "Jan Heyndrickse Goetbloet", "Jan Hendrickse Bloetgoet"

Birthdate: August 04, 1590

Birthplace: Zuid-Holand, Gouda, Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands

Death: circa 1690 (95-104)

Nord-Holand, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands 

Place of Burial: Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Immediate Family:

Son of Hendricke Dirkse Bloetgoet and Sophia Bloetgoet

Husband of Geerten Bloodgood

Father of Thomas Janszen Bloetgoet and Captain Frans Jansen Bloodgood"

https://www.geni.com/people/Jan- Bloetgoet/6000000008573796571

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"The godi also had a female equivalent, the gydja, whom we will encounter again in the context of

sorcery. The role of women in the officialdom of cultic practice was taken up relatively early in

Viking studies, especially in relation to fertility rituals (e.g Phillpotts 1914), and it is clear that some

of the gydja enjoyed a very high status in the apparatus of cult.

Several factors suggest a connection

to Freyja and the Vanir, and both the godi and the gydja could have responsibility for the sacrificial

blot (cf. Nasstrom 2002b: 97f)"


https://yale.learningu.org/download/c03d3162-0caf-4750-a30f-1333a18c3ec2/C3339_Viking%20Way.pdf

https://yale.learningu.org/download/c03d3162-0caf-4750-a30f-1333a18c3ec2/C3339_Viking%20Way.pdf 

"In the royal sagas of Snorri's Heimskringla we encounter seidr on numerous occasions, generally

presented in incidental fashion embedded in the narrative. However, in one source it is presented in a

more explanatory context, and this is of course the Ynglingasaga. It first appears in chapter 4, when

we read of the introduction of sorcery to the £isir gods by Freyja:

69

• Chapter 2 •

Dottir NiarSar var Freyja; hon var blotgyQja; hon kendi fyrst me8 Asum sei5, sem VQnum var titt.

The daughter of NjorQr was Freyja; she was a blotgydja ['priestess of sacrifices']; she was the first to

teach seidr to the £isir, as it was practiced among the Vanir.

Ynglingasaga 4; my translation"

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"That Freyr had a cult at Uppsala is well confirmed from other sources. The reference to the change in sacrificial ritual may also reflect some historical memory. There is archaeological evidence for an increase in human sacrifices in the late Viking Age though among the Norse gods human sacrifice is most often linked to Odin.

 Another reference to Frø and sacrifices is found earlier in the work, where the beginning of an annual blót to him is related."

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"0din could change his shape [hamr], when his body would lie there as if asleep or dead, while he

himself was a bird or an animal, a fish or a snake, and would travel in an instant to far-off lands on his

errands or those of other men. 

He was also able, using words alone, to extinguish fires and to calm the

sea, and to turn the winds wherever he wished. He had a ship called Ski9bla5nir ['Built From Pieces

Of Thin Wood'] with which he sailed over great seas, but which could be folded up like a cloth. Odin

had with him Mimr's head, and it told him many tidings from other worlds [heimar]; at times he

would wake up dead men out of the ground or sit beneath the hanged; from this he was called Lord of

Ghosts or Lord of the Hanged. He had two ravens, which he had endowed with the power of speech;

they flew far over the land and told him many tidings. In this way he became very wise. And all these

skills he taught with runes and those chants [Ijod] that are called galdrar, because of this the jEsir are

called galdrasmidir ['galdra-smiths']. Odin knew the skill from which follows the greatest power,

and which he performed himself, that which is called seidr. By means of it he could know the futures

of men and that which had not yet happened, and also cause death or misfortune or sickness, as well

as take men's wits or strength from them and give them to others. But this sorcery \jjQlkyngi], as is

known, brings with it so much ergi that manly men thought it shameful to perform, and so this skill

was taught to the priestesses [gydjur], Odin knew everything about treasures hidden in the earth,

where they were concealed, and he knew such chants [Ijod] that would open up for him the earth and

mountains and stones and burial mounds, and with words alone he bound those who dwelled there,

and went in and took what he wanted.

 By these powers he became very famous - his enemies feared

him, but his friends trusted him, and believed in him and his power.

  Most of these skills he taught to

those in charge of the sacrifices [blotgodi];

 they were next to him in all magic knowledge \frodleikr]

and sorcery \fjglkyngi].

 But many others learned much of it, and for this reason sorcery [//p/fcyngt]

was widespread and continued for a long time.

Ynglingasaga 7



Tuesday, August 03, 2021

pruning branches blotgodi see-saw-tree

 "Bloodgood Nurseries was a fixture in Horsham since the 1970s when Al Edling moved the existing business from Doylestown. 

But its roots go way back - claiming to be America's oldest nursery, established in 1790!



Bloodgood is a name that has long been associated with various plants. The Bloodgood Japanese Red Maple Acer palmatum atropurpureum is probably the single most popular upright purple-leafed Japanese maple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_palmatum

 Bloodgood introduced it to North American gardening shortly after the Civil War, a very long time before the general craze for Japanese maples was really begun & the tree was practically unknown in North America.



The earliest records of the Bloodgood name associated with nurseries relate to 1790 in Flushing (now Queens) New York. 

The name Bloodgood can be traced to Francis Bloctgoct, one of the earliest setllers in the village of Vlissingen (anglicized to Flushing) prior to 1674.

French Huguenots immigrated to the area in the 18th century, bringing knowledge of horticulture with them and Flushing became known for its various nurseries: Prince, Bloodgood, Higgins, Kimbers and Parsons families. Members of the King and Murray families purchased the Bloodgood Nursery in the 1830’s and moved it to land next to their Kingsland estate.


John Warner Willcomb, who was born in Massachusetts in 1793 and for many years was the owner of the Bloodgood Nursery but “lost the business by defalcation of his New York agent.”

 “The old Bloodgood nursery now owned and conducted by Wilcomb and King, has long been in high reputation, and is only inferior in quantity and variety to the Linnaean Garden.” By 1849, per the catalog here, the business was in the hands of Thomas and James Bloodgood.



It was shortly after the Civil War when Bloodgood began producing the Japanese Maple that still bears their name, but we don't know who was running the company during that time

Keene and Foulkes are shown as owners on the 1897 catalog - and Foulke and Flemer by 1912.



William Flemer started F&F Nurseries in 1868 in Springfield, NJ. By 1912, it appears that he had partnered with Theo Foulk -

 Bloodgood was advertised along with F&F Nurseries as American Nursery Company.

 Bloodgood was still located in Flushing and F&F was located in Springfield, NJ. Flemer moved F&F to Kingston, NJ beginning in 1913 with the purchase of the 65 acre Myrick farm and F&F was renamed Princeton Nurseries.



After serving with the Ambulance Corps in World War I, Flemer’s son William Flemer, Jr. returned and began purchasing additional properties, building the nursery holdings to about 1,200 acres.

 Princeton Nurseries operated at the Kingston location until 1995. The company ceased operations in 2010. The Kingston site was taken over by the Friends Of Princeton Nursery Lands and in 2018 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.


Ted Foulk moved Bloodgood to Doylestown, Pa. after graduation from Princeton in 1946. Flemer stayed in New Jersey.

Al Edling, who had received a degree in horticulture from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, took over the Doylestown business and moved it to Horsham as Bloodgood Nursery. Mr Edling was a long-time HPHA member who donated fruit trees and other plants to HPHA, and with his wife, Eleanor, hosted our Covered Dish Supper several years ago. He ran Bloodgood Nursery for 37 years.


We are sad to report the passing of Mr. Edling on December 10, 2016


Bloodgood still operates in Horsham as Bloodgood Pond and Landscaping."


https://horshamhistory.org/history/places/bloodgood-nurseries