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