Aldsidu (Old Saxon Heathenry)

Historical Germanic Heathenry had three major blots, which lasted for three days. Historical Heathens also had a minor celebration which...

DISCLAMER: Please see Aldsidu's Mission Statement: We outlaw all forms of bigotry and racism. https://www.aldsidu.com/about In the U.K...

Let me begin this article with a simple fact: Modern Asatru ignores the moon, and has a pure solar calendar. It has never taught that his...

In twenty-one years in Heathenry, I have had someone say this to me so many times I lost count: "We do not do the Old Ways and should ab...

Many university scholars and professors claim that Ancestor worship is an invention of modern Heathenry. I am fanatical about research, ...

All bloggers and YouTubers have a target audience. I am NOT going for numbers. If I were, I would mix Christianity and Wicca in with Sc...

On Easter Sunday (not a holiday for me obviously) I get a lot of questions every year, questions like: 1. Why is Ostara not in the Eddas...

You have to love the internet. Today I saw that some are teaching that the origins of Ash Wednesday are from Norse Paganism. The origins...

Once there were a people known as the Saxons. They lived in an area that is now in Northwestern Germany. Saxony’s government was a republ...

As a follower of Aldsidu, I obviously have great respect for the Saga of Ragnar Loðbrók and the Saga of Ragnar's sons. It is possible (p...

In a recent study on the cult of the god Thor in the Viking Age, Lasse Christian Arboe Sonne (2013) argued that we have no evidence whats...

I am always amazed at the amount of mis-information on the internet, especially on "pagan" websites. Dr. Andreas Nordberg of Sweden, the...

Historical Heathen Temples Please see the historical quotes on Heathen Temples at the bottom of this article. These include Uppsala, the ...

This article is intended for discussion. What was historical Heathenry? Is it different from Modern Asatru? (And upfront, I will say Asat...

The Indiculus superstitionum et paganiarum (Small index of superstitions and paganism) was written in Latin in the eight century and is a...

Asatru has done some good things, but recently, due to the constant issues (and ongoing discussions) of bigotry and racism, and constant ...

An Asatru group recently posted on Facebook an article about this upcoming time of year, when Pagans historically chopped down trees, bro...

Doing a search on Google for the word "elves" you will get a plethora of pictures of Legolas from Lord of the Rings, or Santa's Elves, or...

Arminius (Latin) or Hermann (German) or Irminas (in proto-Old Saxon *see below) was born in the year 18/17 BC and was killed in 21 AD. Ar...

This article is in direct response to a public list by Social Justice Warriors claiming that I was a racist. Now that comment is removed...