Spirits of the dead appear in many forms across Europe. One such creature, especially, features prominently into those tales, appearing in Norse mythology and folklore: the draugr.
Tag: sagas
It is unfortunate that factions of outspoken white nationalists have increasingly found their way into Heathenry and, perhaps due to this, the subject of lineage and ancestry in the Northern Tradition
Grief is not just the loss of something we loved, but also the destruction of a part of ourselves. Most of all, grief is a loss of control. When everything else has been taken from us, the last thing
Many aspects if our tradition end up getting oversimplified into easy to swallow 'Christianized' binaries. This is most evident in the modern concept of Valhalla. I so often see Valhalla, or in Old Norse: Valhöll, described as this kind of glorious "Heathen Heaven”; a golden hall in Asgard where every day is filled with Fighting and Feasting and Fff....'Frolicking'... The idea of Valhöll goes so much deeper than that, and it's such a shame to see this fundamental part of our tradition's worldview so often be either misunderstood or blatantly misrepresented.