Aldsidu (Old Saxon Heathenry)

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 Scandinavian Gods and ...

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? 2. Why is the Chur...

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 are Frankish. Peop...

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 republic. Saxony was divid...

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 (pending which scholar...

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 whatsoever that the Vikin...

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

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

This article is intended for discussion. What was historical Heathenry? Is it different from Modern Asatru? (And upfront, I will say Asatru is no better or w...

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

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

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

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 a variety of cartoo...

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. Arminius was the son o...

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. The SJWs updated t...

Alfablot, and Old English Blood Moon. Two holy tides that happened at the same time. Two holy tides that could be completely different in meaning. All Germa...

When people think of "Heathen" leaders, they think of Asatru leaders, not people who are leading the various reconstructionist communities, i.e. those trying...

The following is a culmination of field study on location in Old Saxon lands. Like my Historical Saxon longhouse article, and the Saxon Jewelry article, thi...

The traditionally accepted story is that the Saxons were a tiny tribe at the base of the Jutland Peninsula, who in the Migration Period had the military prow...