History Vrs Asatru
If you go to YouTube and look up Asatru, Germanic Pagan ism, or some sort of related topic you will find thousands of videos on the subject. A lot of these videos are very good, and I do watch a lot of them. Many of the presenters are pagan/heathens and in their professional lives are historians, archeologists, and anthropologists. I myself am a historian, so I can relate to them very well. Many of these videos discuss the history of the Germanic peoples “religion” versus modern Asatru practice. They discuss how Asatru was created by our contemporaries and most of the practices are NOT historically accurate. Now, being a historian, I completely agree, modern Asatru is mostly a fabrication by people over the past 50 years who are still alive today. Asatru is not historically accurate. Ok, I can deal with that. When I started down the pagan path, I knew that modern Asatru religion was not the religion of the Vikings, Saxons, or Germanic tribes of yesteryears…. I enter into Asatru with th...