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Asatru

DEFINITIONS

Asatru: Those who practice Asatru devote themselves to the Nordic, Germanic, and Icelandic Deities, and may do so to the exclusion of all other Deities by a voluntary covenant. The ethical system is based on the writings of Edred Thorsson, who identifies Nine Noble Virtues and the Sixfold Goal as an ethical system. The virtues are courage, honor, truth, fidelity, discipline, hospitality, industriousness, self-reliance, and perseverance. The goals are right, wisdom, might, harvest, peace (frith), and love.
source: Paganism, Joyce & River Higginbotham (Llewellyn Publications)

Asatru: This term has been adopted to describe the modern restoration of the Germanic religion of Northern Europe. The literal meaning is "true to the Aesir!"
source: Northern Mysteries & Magick - Freya Aswynn

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ARTICLES

1 ARTICLES ON ASATRU


1. The Future of Druidism:
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