Norse
In the year 1000 CE, a lawspeaker named Thorgeirr Ljosvetningagodhi lay down under his cloak at the Althing, the Icelandic assembly, and remained there for a full day and night. When he emerged, he announced his decision: Iceland would be Christian. Private practice...
Norse
The Norse people buried their religion in the ground. Not figuratively. Literally. They buried it with their dead, deposited it in lakes and bogs, carved it into stone, and pressed it into metal. The textual sources for Norse religion were written by Christians. The...
Norse
The most common mistake new practitioners make is treating the Prose Edda like a Bible. They read it as though Snorri Sturluson was a reporter faithfully transcribing a living religious tradition. He was not. He was a 13th-century Christian Icelandic politician...
Norse
The Asatru Folk Assembly argues that Norse and Germanic paganism can only be practiced by people of Northern European ancestry. Their founding documents describe an integral link between ancestry and religion, between biology and spirituality. This is a specific...
Norse
“Wyrd bith ful araed.” Fate is inexorable. That line comes from the Old English poem The Wanderer, and it is one of the most famous sentences in the entire Old English corpus. Scholars and practitioners quote it regularly. Most of them do not explain what...
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