Heathenry

Norse paganism is kind of hard to delinate around beliefs. It's one of those "we do things rather than theorize about it" type religions, but I guess the main feature is that it's based on the worship of pre-Christian gods from Scandinavia or Germanic areas. Marvel adaptations are unfortunately corrupting legitimate information (including unverified personal gnosis) -- unsurprisingly, shitty movie/comic franchise is not very historically accurate.

Ancestor worship and animism (worship of spirits of nature) are important in Heathenry. I don't have Heathen ancestors, so I am mostly interested in the latter, and Seidr, Galdr, Utiseta and other Nordic shamanic (for lack of a better word) practices.

Unfortunately, Heathenry is plagued by fascists. I am firmly antifascist and support Declaration 127, an anti-Asatru Folk Assembly and anti-racist declaration created by Heathens in 2016. While the website has since gone offline, you can read more about it on the Troth's page.

Websites

• On Black Wings: Website with courses and divination services offered by the Fellowship of Fire and Ice.
• Urglaawe: Pennsylvania German Heathenry, last updated 2023.
• The Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies
• The Grimmdex: An Greatly Expanded Table of Contents for Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie as Translated by James Stallybrass as Teutonic Mythology
• Anglesdottir Arts: YouTube channel for one of my favorite Heathen artists.
• Jackson Crawford: Scholar of Norse language and myth. Not a Heathen himself, please stop bothering him about that.
• The Norse Witch: Beautiful videos on various Heathen and witchcraft topics.
• The Longship
• The Troth: A sizable inclusive Heathen organization. Not my favorite, but not bad either.

Books

• The Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism by Ryan Smith
• Spinning Wyrd by Ryan Smith
• Asatru by Erin Lale: I recommend this one less than Smith's books, but it isn't bad.
• Pagan Portals: Odin by Morgan Daimler
• Pagan Portals: Frigg by Ryan McClain
• Pagan Portals: Loki by Loptson Dagulf
• Loki and Sigyn: Lessons on Chaos, Laughter & Loyalty from the Norse Gods by Lea Svendsen

This is likely to change as my practice evolves and grows.

• Loki: A trickster god who causes change, for better and for worse.
• Frigg: The goddess of the hearth, home, and weaving, and wife of Odin. The Allmother.
• Odin: Husband of Frigg and the Allfather, god of wisdom, war, and discoverer of runes.
• Njord: One of the gods of the sea, and also of wealth.
• Bragi: God of poets likely based on a human poet. Idunn's husband.
• Idunn: Goddess who ensures all the gods are eternally youthful with her golden apples. She is Bragi's wife.