Monday, March 28, 2016

The Valknut: Heart of the Slain?

November 20, 2015

All New Exclusive Article!

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The Festival Year

October 23, 2014

The first article of our "Current Volume"! Reconstructing the heathen calendar and festival cycle!

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Welcome To Our New Website!

September 19, 2014

Welcome to the new website! Please read this welcome letter and intro before diving in!

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Finnish Tradition

March 9, 2014

Part II has been added! Read the full article on Finnish Paganism for the first time, right here!

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  • The Valknut: Heart of the Slain?
  • The Festival Year
  • Welcome To Our New Website!
  • Finnish Tradition

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This article might be regarded as a follow-up to several other papers and articles that the present author has presented in recent years on the subject of religious change and diversity in the Nordic countries during the Migration Period and Viking Age (see, ...
Solkross
Abstract. This paper is largely based on interviews which were taken with Jörmundur Ingi Hansen, and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the last two allsherjagoðar (high priests) of the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélag (a society which involves the active worship of the Old ...
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Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age
High priest Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson and fellow members of the Asatru Association attend a ceremony at the Pingvellir National Park near Reykjavik. Photograph: Reuters
Originally Published Here Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern […]...


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ONCE ON A TIME there was a king who ruled a newly settled farmstead.  He had many hundred sheep, many hundred goats, many hundred cattle, and many hundred horses he had too.  Silver and gold he had in great heaps. But for all of that, he was so given to grie...
It was a nice warm early fall day and I was basking on top of Rattlesnake Mountain. It’s one of the easier climbs in the state, something you could do in a few hours and then still make it to the party you had to go to later that day. Or something like that ...