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Winter Nights (Old Norse: vetrnætr) was a specific time of year in medieval Scandinavia, held 28 days after the autumn equinox. According to Zoega's Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic , vetr-nætr referred to "the three days which begin the winter season".
The handbook Our Troth: Heathen Life published by American-based inclusive Heathen organization The Troth in 2020, lists three holidays that most Heathens agree on, Yule (Winter Solstice or the first full moon after Winter Solstice), Winter Nights/Alfarblot/Disablot (begins on the second full moon after Autumnal Equinox and ends at new moon ...
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.
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 ...
The Troth defines itself as a religious organization of Germanic Heathenry open to all the forms of the religion (Asatru, Urglaawe, Forn Sed, and others) [1] international in scope, with training clergy, promoting cooperation and community, and providing information and educational publications as objectives.
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 ]
Vinternatt i Rondane, 1914 Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo. Winter Night in the Mountains (Norwegian: Vinternatt i fjellene), also known as Winter Night in Rondane (Norwegian: Vinternatt i Rondane), is the name of several versions of a composition created in several techniques by the Norwegian artist Harald Sohlberg (1869–1935).
In English usage, the genitive Ásatrúar "of Æsir faith" is often used on its own to denote adherents (both singular and plural). [9] This term is favored by practitioners who focus on the deities of Scandinavia, [10] although it is problematic as many Asatruar worship deities and entities other than the Æsir, such as the Vanir, Valkyries, Elves, and Dwarves. [11]