Far from people’s preconceptions

When, as a heathen in this day and age, one dares to express one’s spiritual conviction publically, you are often met by many ideas and preconceptions from people; many hard-wired assumptions about what it’s all about. For example, many people believe that it’s mere a misunderstood view of movies and TV, that it’s role-playing in the woods, or even that we’ve gone mad studying old history books. Fortunately it runs deeper than that, and we will have a closer look at it here.

We praise the ancient primeval forces

Yes, you’ll often find us shouting deep in the woods, on old gravemounds or at ancient stone ships and the like, some dress up in reenactment clothing to feel closer to their ancestors, but it is certainly not a requirement – at least not here in Guðavík. We each have our own way of getting in touch with the primeval forces, and we each have our own interpretation of the faith.

It is popularly said that for each norse pagan you meet, you also encounter a new interpretation of the faith, some have a New-Age approach, other a Folkish, some are heavily into the Viking faith, some are Shamanistic and yet others are there to come in contact with Nature. Common to all, however, is that we praise the primordial powers, we all see the same, but we all see differently.