Arts & Culture
Review: Jackson Crawford’s “The Wanderer’s Hávamál”
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Lyonel Perabo reviews Jackson Crawford’s “The Wanderer’s Havamal,” a translation of the Old Norse wisdom poem alongside several additional texts.
Arts & Culture
The Search for Pagan Friendly Kids’ Media
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Lyonel Perabo provides a selection of ten favorite children’s stories and entertainments with Pagan themes.
Europe
A Low-Kew Nordic Yule
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With just two days to go, I made use of one of my few free days to go downtown and get a few supplies: gift wrapping paper, thick craft rope, glue, and a big burlap bag. I had found out what to do: instead of having someone dressed as Santa delivering gifts, I would have someone don a homemade Yule Goat costume.
Arctic
Stepping into the Polar Night
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It is like living in a lighthouse, surrounded by nothing but the wild, often unwelcoming nature. You merely need to take three steps outside the door to remember where you are. Locals have a saying about that: “Vi vet kor vi bor” (“We know where we live”) and it is often in November that you start hearing it out loud.
Asatruarfelagid
Freeing Paganism from the past: a talk with Magnús Jensson, architect of Iceland’s heathen temple
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“Many people think of Paganism as belonging to the past,” says Magnús Jensson, architect of the still in construction Ásatrú temple in Reykjavík. “But this is wrong. Paganism is not the past, Paganism is the present.”