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	Norse mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled.
		It was not a revealed religion, in that it was not a truth handed down from the divine to the mortal (although it does have tales of normal persons learning the stories of the gods from a visit to or from the gods), and it had no scripture.
		Although both religions are of the Indo-European tradition, the sacrifice described in the Ibn Fadlan account is not to be confused with the practice of Sati.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norse_mythology (4175 words)

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		In the eighteenth century, Old Norse literature was the lore of antiquarians.
		Old Norse poetry was well enough known to call forth this remark: "They (the 'Runic' odes) have a certain sublime and figurative cast of diction, which is indeed one of their predominant characteristics....
		In religion, in art, in poetry, in economics, he loved the past better than the present, though he was never unconscious of "our glorious gains." In all departments of thought the scanty, the bare, the hard, the unworthy, drew first his attention and then his love and enthusiastic praise.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/3/7/8/13786/13786-8.txt (19094 words)

	Barbarian's Norse Religion Page
		Norse Religion, or Heathenry, is the modern-day practice of the ancient tribal belief systems of the Northern European peoples; the Teutons (continental Germanic tribes) and the Norse (Scandinavian and Gothic tribes).
		Thus you have Odin among the Norse, and Wotan or Wodan among the Teutons; Thor or Thonar among the Norse, and Donar or Donner among the Teutons.
		Asatru is one of the noblest religions, but it's current infrastructure lends itself to some squabbling and infighting among the various sects concerning interpretations of the sagas, due in part to the unavailability of complete information.
	www.wizardrealm.com /norse (748 words)

	Tract
		The religion of the peoples of Northern Europe ultimately derives from the same Indo-European source as those of the Celts and of early Rome, and like them, was influenced by the religions of the peoples who preceded them.
		Old Germanic practice was for the chieftain of a clan or the leader of a district to act as gothi (priest), hosting the feasts and leading the rituals.
		As in the old days, the gothi or gythja is the person who does the work and puts on the ritual, but each man and woman is his or her own priest or priestess, free to seek initiation from the gods.
	www.hrafnar.org /tract.html (1392 words)

	Asatru (Norse/Germanic Paganism) - ReligionFacts
		Thus, Ásatrú; means "religion of the Æsir." The term was coined by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason, in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism.
		The ancient form of the religion is usually referred to as Germanic paganism, Germanic religion, or Norse mythology.
		In the old Germanic religion, the central practice was animal and human sacrifice, conducted in the open or in groves and forests.
	www.religionfacts.com /a-z-religion-index/asatru.htm (1661 words)

	Hurstwic: References
		An indispensable summary of old Norse society and the role of women in that society.
		Turville-Petre, E.O.G.: Myth and Religion of the North - The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia.
		This scholarly study of the Norse religion remains the standard against which other texts are compared.
	www.hurstwic.org /history/articles/text/References.htm (1787 words)

	Chronicles of Wasted Time - Just give me that old-time atheism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To see religion as "a kind of art," as Evans rather sweetly proposes, is possible only when the religion is dead or when, like the Church of England, it has become a set of polite rituals.
		The old Greek religion lives on as mythology, the old Norse religion has left us the Norse myths and, yes, now we can read them as literature.
		Meanwhile religions continue to attack their own artists: Hindu artists' paintings are attacked by Hindu mobs, Sikh playwrights are threatened by Sikh violence and Muslim novelists and filmmakers are menaced by Islamic fanatics with a vigorous unawareness of any kinship.
	blog.obiter-dicta.com /archives/000179.html (776 words)

	Homelands Sagas
		Old Norse beliefs are best known by literature preserved in Iceland, especially through the works of the great Icelandic author, Snorri Sturluson.
		He seemed concerned that conversion to Christianity would mean the death of this traditional old poetic form, so he recorded tales of the Viking gods Odin, Thor, Frey, Freya, Loki, Frigg, Iduna, and of the end of the world, when the Fenris Wolf swallows the moon.
		Repay laughter with laughter again but betrayal with treachery." The picture that emerges from Havamal and saga literature in general is that of a culture bound by strict rules of conduct and a keen sense of honor.
	www.mnh.si.edu /vikings/voyage/subset/homelands/sagas.html (490 words)

	Norse Mythology
		It has also been established that the Norse religion involved worship in sacred groves, which were trees planted to simulate the walls of a temple.
		The Norse myths recount a remarkable story of the deluge, which differs from the Bible in that the flood was said to he caused by the blood of a slain giant.
		In the Norse account, the world is wiped out in this catastrophe, with the exception of one household who escaped on a skiff or boat, and from whom is descended the new race from which the god Odin came.
	www.1335.com /normyth.html (2645 words)

	Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Old Norse Names
		If one or more of the grandparents were dead the old belief would practically decree it and filial love would perpetuate the practice after the belief no longer existed in its old form.
		The basic Old Norse name was usually composed of two name elements, although some names had only one element.
		In Old Norse, the possessive is indicated by a change in the ending of the word.
	www.vikinganswerlady.com /ONNames.shtml (4109 words)

	Valkyrie , Norse Mythology
		Most information about Scandinavian mythology is preserved in the Old Norse literature (Icelandic, Swedish, and Norwegian Literature), in the Eddas and later sagas; other material appears in commentaries by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and the German writer Adam of Bremen (flourished about 1075).
		Fragments of legends are sometimes preserved in old inscriptions and in later folklore.
		There the warriors would spend their days fighting and nights feasting until Ragnarok, the day of the final world battle, in which the old gods would perish and a new reign of peace and love would be instituted.
	home4.inet.tele.dk /svava/valkyrie.htm (1002 words)

	An Argument Among Atheists -- Always Worth Watching
		Evans was first to strike, writing in The Guardian [London] that atheists should strike a softer pose, acknowledging, in essence, that religions can be beautiful, even if they cannot be true.
		"But while many religions still thrive, most of the atheisms that have ever existed are now extinct." Today's atheists, he complains, preach an "old and tired" atheism that appeals to few.
		Religion is just fine, so long as you don't really believe anything about God.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_print.php?id=100 (583 words)

	Wolfspirit's Paganism
		Some people believe paganism to be a religion within itself; others see it as a belief system (such as monotheism) that can be incorporated into religions like Wicca or Druidism; others see it as a broad category including many religio ns.
		The fact that we are re-creating religion for ourselves after centuries of suppression makes us very eclectic and very concerned with the "rightness" of a particular thing for the individual.
		So when you see some people calling it a religion and others not, when you see it capitalized in some instances and not in others, don't be confused -- we're all still basically talking about the same thing.
	www.100megspop2.com /wolfspirit/page5a.html (404 words)

	Norse Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The main body of traditions is contained in the Prose Edda of SNORRI STURLUSON (c.1179-1241), an Icelandic historian who is considered the most accurate editor, redactor, and interpreter of the religious and mythological sources of the old Norse religion.
		The Aesir symbolize other values: Odin is a magician, chief among the gods, and a patron of heroes; Thor, who is god of the hammer, is an atmospheric deity of thunder who presides over work.
		In the Norse cycles the conflict between the gods begins when Odin and Thor, the greatest of the gods, refuse the full status of godhood to the Vanir.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~jasen01/texts/nrw_myth.html (1337 words)

	Research Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Armin W. Geertz: Indigenous religions; Native Americans (esp. Hopi Indians); anthropological method and theory; method and theory in the study of religion; cognition and religion; new and alternative religions; religion and gender
		Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen: Narratives and rituals in the Old Testament; Old Testament theology; Babylonian and Near Oriental religions; Structuralism, mythology, post-structural theories of myth and ritual (e.g., Burkert, Girard); history of religious studies, especially Durkheim.
		Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Method and theory in comparative religion, philosophy / theory of science in / for comparative religion, phenomenology of religion; cosmology and anthropology in Islam, early Islam.
	www.teo.au.dk /en/unit/departments/sr/research (262 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature, by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
		It is the poet's divinely implanted instinct that gathers from the few chapters of an old book a knowledge wonderfully full and deep of the cosmogony and eschatology of the northern nations of Europe.
		Gray has all the culture of his age, when it was still possible to compass all knowledge in one lifetime; Arnold had all the literary culture of his fuller century when multiplied sciences force (32) a scholar to be content with one segment of human knowledge.
		Speaking of the elements that mingled to produce the British character, Kingsley says: "In manners as well as in religion, the Norse were humanized and civilized by their contact with the Celts, both in Scotland and in Ireland.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/3/7/8/13786/13786-h/13786-h.htm (17439 words)

	Proteus Library: Nature Religion for Real
		At least we are spared the problem recounted to me by several Swedish students at my university, who said that for them to show too much interest at home in the old Norse religion of the Viking Age was to run the risk of being called a white supremacist by their peers.
		Yet I meet so many followers of "earth religion" who have no idea of the source of their drinking water, no knowledge of the history of the land where they live, both its human history and its "wild" history, the history of its nonhuman people, so to speak.
		If you would practice "nature religion" or "earth-centered spirituality," learn where you are on the earth and learn the songs of that place, the song of water and the song of wind.
	www.draknet.com /proteus/forreal.htm (2700 words)

	Nielsen's Psyc of Religion: Links to Religion Sites
		Their sections on sociology of religion, and on religion and society, contain articles from some of the top scholars in the field.
		The Centre for Psychology of Religion, at Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, is an active research center investigating psychological aspects of religion.
		Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy is a fascinating place dealing with physical and biological aspects of spirituality.
	www.psychwww.com /psyrelig/links.htm (8295 words)

	TwoMorrows Publishing - "Real" Tales of Asgard - Kirby Collector Fourteenth Issue
		Initially, the god of thunder's chief concern seemed to be magicians and Communists, but it was the repeated appearance of his greatest adversary, Loki, that signaled the team's increasing interest in exploring the Viking myths.
		Tyr, the Norse God of War who demanded sacrifices from his followers, was wildly popular until Thor - who apparently desired no such bloody compensation - usurped his position over the years and surpassed even Odin in popularity.
		Odin: The chief god of the Norse pantheon, Odin is called Alfadir (All-father), for he is indeed father of the gods Balder, Hermod, Hod, Thor, and Vidar.
	www.twomorrows.com /kirby/articles/14norse.html (1510 words)

	Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal: From the Mailbag...
		My girlfriends sister and her young daughter were over for a visit this last weekend and our place being the den of two adults has little to keep a three year old girl interested.
		Well the problem and the source of my writing is that that she is convinced that the book will/has been made into a movie, and that of course we all need to see said movie soon.
		I attempted to explain to the girl that their was no movie, however my words hardly stood up against her three year old logic that all books have movies to go along with them.
	www.neilgaiman.com /journal/2003/11/from-mailbag.asp (1451 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Myths and Folktales: Myths: Norse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Norse Fornnordisk Mytologi - English translation of the Hávamál, runic inscriptions and carvings, with images of runestones and deities.
		Norse Mythology - Introduction to the main characters and tales of Norse mythology with bibliography by Nicole Cherry.
		Norse Mythology Page - Genealogy of the Norse deities, stories, and a list of personalities associated with Norse mythology.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Myths_and_Folktales/Myths/Norse (407 words)

	The Bifrost Project
		The Odinic Rite British group reviving the Norse Heathen Religion!
		Yes, the Old Norse and Saxon heathen religion still survives - in fact flourishes - in the modern world!
		Cambridge University Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/dali/55/vikings/bifrost.htm (553 words)

	Religion
		There seems to be a belief that religion is not the domain of the level-minded.
		I recently met an old friend for coffee and one of the things that we talked about was reconciling science and religion.
		Why is there little comparative religion between Santeria, Vodou, Druidism, Wicca, and other pagan and neo-pagan religions.
	www.bcholmes.org /wicca (1174 words)

	Nature Religion for Real
		Witches in particular have been referring to themselves as "the Old Religion" since at least the 1950s; our British co-religionists got a lot of mileage out of their World War II self-identification with embattled Britain--in other words, ancient ethnic Paganism--battling the "invader from the East," a dazzling rhetorical conflation of the German Wehrmacht with Christianity!3
		They give up their own power or any chance of having their own "earth religion" in favor of the imported article--for perhaps more accurately, in favor of a domestic product that is presented as an imported article.
		If you would practice "nature religion" or "earth&endash;centered spirituality," learn where you are on the earth and learn the songs of that place, the song of water and the song of wind.
	www.chasclifton.com /papers/forreal.html (2632 words)

	Advent Children.forums - Religion
		More like Paganism then but most my beliefs and worships are from the old Norse religion of Heathenism.
		I'm a Pagan of non-specific religion with strong agnostic leanings.
		It is sometimes used as a derogatory term for non Christian, Jewish and Islamic religions, sometimes members of those three religions even use it to refer to eachother in a derogatory manner.
	www.adventchildren.net /forums/showthread.php?t=18575 (718 words)

	Different Types of Paganism
		Paleo-paganism: the standard of paganism, a pagan culture which has not been disrupted by "civilization" by another culture - Australian Bushmen modern (who are probably becoming meso-pagans), ancient Celtic religion (Druidism), the religions of the pre-patriarchal cultures of Old Europe, Norse religion, pre-Columbian Native American religions, etc.
		Civilo-paganism: the religions of "civilized" communities which evolved in paleo-pagan cultures -- Classical Greco-Roman religion, Egyptian religion, Middle-Eastern paganism, Aztec religion, etc.
		Neopaganism: attempts of modern people to reconnect with nature, using imagery and forms from other types of pagans, but adjusting them to the needs of modern people.
	occultism.hit.bg /paganism/witchcraft/different_paganism.html (199 words)

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