Heathen / Asatru 101

I just touch on Heathenry and Asatru and as a primer

Less than a thousand years ago, the elders of Iceland made a fateful decision. Under political pressure from Christian Europe, and faced with the need for trade, the Allthing declared Iceland to be an officially Christian country. Within a few short centuries the last remnants of Nordic Paganism, which once stretched through all of Northern Europe were thought dead. However, Iceland was a tolerant country and the myths stories, and legends of Pagan times were left unburnt to kindle the fires of belief and time, in later generations. Under pressure, Iceland once again recognized Nordic Paganism as a legitimate and legal religion. A restoration of our ancient faith is likewise in full bloom in the United State of America where we see the migration from the “ normal “ faith to one of the old ways.

This ancient Pagan religion was known as Asatru, an old Norse word which means Troth (loyalty) to the Gods, and modern Asatru is nothing less than the complete revival of the ancient Norse Pagan religion as far as we know it to be. when it died out for a time alot of the old ways were lost and we find ourselves studying the books and poetry and stories of the time to revive it as it is and should be.