Modern Heathen

The best thing that Asatruars could do would be to get over the idea that we're the direct inheriters of the "the Northern Way".

We're Reconstructionists. It's a perfectly honorable thing to be, and better yet, it's an accurate way of describing who we are.

We study, we learn, and sometimes we intuit. Some people are better at this than others, or at least they seem to be. Some people appear distinctly deluded in what they come up with. All of this is part of the process.

If you don't think we're Neo-Pagan, if you think we're some kind of tribal religion, or traditional folkway, you're clearly not very familar with Neo-Paganism or tribal religions.

Oh, and if you're the type of person who blathers on and on about how, "Our religion is OLD. Not like the WICCANS!"?

Just save us all the time and trouble and stick a sign around your neck that says, "I Suffer From Acute Sexual Inadequacy".

Thank you, that'll make life easier for everyone.

Just doing some looking around.

Original text and facing translation from Beowulf in Cyberspace.

The translation from Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, reproduced here at Habitat a online blog dealing with environmental news in the UK. Interesting that they include the NHC on their site, no?

I put the purling aside. Instead, I'm knitting the first project in the Stich'n Bitch book, a very simple scarf, just garter stitch, good practice for color changes.

The book has good basic instructions, I think I'm ready to try purling again with the next project.

I recently read Runes of Elfland and I was pretty disappointed. I was anticipating pretty faerie pictures, with some creative interpretations of Germanic cosmology. In short, I was pretty open-minded. It didn't even deliver that much, and frankly, I have no idea why the author used the term "runes".

This may seem like quibbling, if a work isn't academic, if it's supposed to be a sort of inspirational fiction, how can it be disappointing? This misses an essential rule. Good fiction, especially good fiction based on mythology, needs to present itself with verisimilitude. There's nothing compelling about it otherwise, and there was nothing compelling about Runes of Elfland. I'll post a link to a full review when I've thought it all out.