One of the most frequently asked questions about our ritual tools is “How does one go about preparing a horn for drinking?” For those who may be interested in making their own drinking horns, I offer the following: Continue reading
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Validation or What other religions do, and why it doesn’t necessarily matter.
While paging through Olof Sundqvist’s Freyr’s Offspring, I came upon his method for validating historiographic and sagaic sources that describe possible practices and views of the ancient Svea society. Seeing as Ásatrú is constantly deciding exactly how much credence to lend to sources in “the Lore” the method he applies struck
me as something worthy of discussion, especially as this led me to some observations about modern heathens and our search for validity. Continue reading