Arts & Culture
Jethro Tull’s Regressive Rock Ragnarök
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Karl E.H. Seigfried reviews “RökFlöte,” the new Jethro Tull album whose songs are inspired by Norse mythology.
Paganism
Review: Setting Sails toward new horizons with “Heathenry and the Sea”
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Lyonel Perabo reviews the new book by Dan Coultas, “Heathenry and the Sea.”
Paganism
Column: Njord
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“Did you know that this idol once received a blood sacrifice?” The Icelander and I were standing in the assembly hall of Ásatrúarfélagið1, the Icelandic Ásatrú church, waiting for our companion, Tandri, to finish putting some supplies away in the back room. We were standing in front of a carved wooden idol, six feet tall, made of pale, honey-colored wood. Dozens of runic inscriptions had been carved into the idol and marked with red paint; I might have been able to work out their meanings, assuming I had an Icelandic dictionary and about twelve hours of spare time. I only knew that the idol represented Njord2, the sea-god, because the Icelander told me so.