Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The idea to found a folk religious organization came about in late winter 1972 in discussions in a café in Reykjavík. The four men who would become the organization's early leaders and ideologues were Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, a farmer and a traditionalist poet, Jörmundur Ingi Hansen, a jack of all trades and a prominent person in the Reykjavík hippie movement, Dagur Þorleifsson, a ...
Declaration 127, so named for the corresponding stanza of the Hávamál: "When you see misdeeds, speak out against them, and give your enemies no frið” is a collective statement denouncing and testifying disassociation with the Asatru Folk Assembly for alleged racial and sexually-discriminatory practices and beliefs signed by over 150 ...
The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is a white nationalist [3] [4] international Ásatrú organization, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994. Many of the assembly's doctrines, heavily criticized by most heathens , [ 5 ] are based on ethnicity , an approach it calls " folkish ". [ 6 ]
Two Pagan organizations are recognized by the Norwegian government as religious societies: Åsatrufellesskapet Bifrost formed in 1996 (Asatru Fellowship "Bifrost"; with some 300 members as of 2011) and Forn Sed Norge formed in 1998 (with some 85 members as of 2014).
Asatru UK (2013) German-speaking Europe. Artgemeinschaft (1951) Heidnische Gemeinschaft (1985) Deutsche Heidnische Front (1998) Eldaring (2000) Latin-speaking Europe. Odinist Community of Spain – Ásatrú (1981) North America. Heathenry in the United States. Asatru Free Assembly (Stephen McNallen, 1974–1986) Ásatrú Alliance (1987) Ring of ...
The list of "Nine Noble Virtues" is due to either John Yeowell (a.k.a. Stubba) [1] and John Gibbs-Bailey (a.k.a. Hoskuld), members of Odinic Rite, or alternatively due to Edred Thorsson, at the time member of the Asatru Free Assembly. [7]
While Asatru itself is not racist, over the years Odinism has become increasingly tied to white supremacist and neo-Nazi beliefs in the US. Many followers – known as Odinites – are now said to ...
Michael "Valgard" Murray (center) with Stephen McNallen (left) and Eric "Hnikar" Wood (at the 2000 IAOA Althing). The Ásatrú Alliance (AA) is an American Heathen group founded in 1988 by Michael J. Murray (a.k.a. Valgard Murray) of Arizona, a former vice-president of Else Christensen's Odinist Fellowship.