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Part Two: American Gods In the 1970s there was a revival of the “old ways” in Iceland, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and Australia (All places that people of Germanic ancestry ended up by the 20 th century). The cropped up pretty much independently of one another. This independent development meant that there was no basic structure, outline, or anything for what would become Asatru. From the get-go in the United States Heathenry was giving out mixed signals. There were neo-Nazi groups that built on the old Nazi stereotypes and there were some legitimate Heathens trying to make a difference. Stephen McNallen In 1976 the first legitimate Asatru organization emerged; the Asatru Free Assembly founded by Stephen McNallen. The AFA, formally the Viking Brotherhood, sought to make Asatru a legitimate religion. McNallen was not alone, Edred Thorson, James Chisholm, Michael J. Murray, along with all the other old faces in modern Asatru work together to make Asatru

Introduction In this multi part series I want to give a brief history of Asatru in the United States from my perspective. American Asatru really got its start in the 1970s and it took decades to take root. I started on the True path in the early 1980s and have followed it thought to today. I am raising the two children in the Heathen ways, the first generation of true heathens who have not been Christianized first. I started writing this months ago. With the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the country and around the world, I have had to put my focus elsewhere. I have had very little time to write, but I hope all that will change. Thank you for you patience and I hope you all are well.  Part One: My History Me in 1987 I have been around the Asatru, Heathen, community going back to the early 1980s. In those days if you rediscovered yourself as Heathen you did not have a lot of options. In the 1980s, we called ourselves Odinists. As far as we knew there was no Heathenry