"Give away The Big Lie."
"Possibly I'm not righteous to take part in this argument - I don't clatter to understand the American interpretation of heathenry you are criticizing.
"I am Icelandic, a heathen person as were my forefathers and mothers, I'm a godi (Kjalnesingagodi) and all my life is highly seasoned to Our Way: Asatru. Hip in Iceland there's no affiliation along with heathen associates of Asatru and adherent movements and due no affiliation along with heathenry and guns.
"Heathen associates in Iceland do not read the Sagas and sense of balance the stories as a way of life to glorification. Heathenry and norse mythology is one thing - Viking sagas of our forefathers is newborn. The sagas warn stories of defiant associates that had to differ for their lives in so several ways. Iceland is a determined place and life was (and is) not easy.
"But may I remember you all that the sagas were written in christian time in Iceland- by christian associates. They believe stories about families, stories that had previous been standoffish live by storytelling in the home - but they were written when you come right down to it for merriment and it shows at the same time as you read them.
"The truth about our Icelandic Viking descent is that the heathen associates that positive in Iceland were unworried associates like the largest part immobile is today. The heathen settlers of Iceland were well off, as they stimulated within with their families and cases on ships that were owned by one of the settlers, and the associates on board were not slaves but free farmers that moreover got the conviction to own land and be one-sided. You can read about that in several sagas. The settlers were adherent refugees, they fled from the norwegian king (the native land) having the status of they wanted to active in nation. Our Althing was main immediately whilst they came within, and it stood until the norwegian native land had unavailable higher the territory.
"The patch up of christian ways in Iceland started at the same time as the norwegian king forced Icelanders to become christian in the engagement 1000. That was a adherent capture or automobile everywhere the king Olafur Tryggvason hand-me-down all his powers (booty hostages, bribing and night with firepower on Althingi) to stick us to take christianity. It was a capture achieved knock back arms - everything that the settlers in Iceland had fled from. This warlike automobile led to the fall of the Icelandic nation and softness surrounded by the associates.
"The heathen settlers of Iceland were one-sided farmers, inventors, craftspeople, traders (and no-one else a few of them everywhere raiders or vikings), well educated storytellers and observers of facial appearance (scientists of a tidiness). The settlers and their families were heathen associates (all if not 5 of them) and heathenry is NOT a glorification for lovers of anarchism or guns. The heathen associates took look out of each other (a broadminded, outgoing interest group) and if you read Havamal and Sigurdrifumal you can see the addiction of how to work towards other associates. You are told to be noble and melodic towards others - heathenry is based on accuracy, vacancy and curb towards other associates.
"Heathenry is a very simple and believable nature-wisdom, and our gods are tokens of the powers within the world and ourselves - and that is the way it has perfectly been and motivation perfectly be. The gods, like all other powers, have available whichever their good and bad sides; so do we, and it's our levy to make the best of them...
"The good way to use our powers is to take look out of each other in a unworried way.
"I do not utterly grant with you on the announce of slaves and women. Slaves were brought to Iceland by the Vikings (the few intimates that were raiders), but peak of the slaves were not unspeakably treated as you can read whichever from Icelandic and British sagas. I may possibly warn you several stories of that. Women had a in good health honor and leader power within than in peak parts of the world. I wish I was expound to do by it, but it is too yearn for a story to recruit in a unexpected native tongue within and now."
