You are aware that I’m not a Norse pagan FOR RU-vid? 🤣 I followed this religion long before I started my channel. So if you don’t know someone personally - better don’t assume stuff about them and blurt them out on the internet - that’s pathetic and unjust. Tyr would not approve 😉
This was excellent. Would have loved to have come across this years ago. Especially like the point about honouring. As I say to people who ask me about my faith - we don't ask our gods for favours, we honour them with our actions.
Love your channel. As an American I try very hard to find European youtubers discussing this religion because I know my own country's cultural machine has sort of overwhelmed everything especially in the digital space, and most American norse pagan youtubers are totally full of shit. Besides you, there's one Norwegian youtuber I really like. Bitte, machen sie mehr videos 😛
Summary on how to become a Norse Pagan: Educate yourself about it:Read the Eddas and the Sagas, believe in it, have reverence for the Gods, for Nature and for the Spirits around you.
This is fab. I've been a Norse pagan for about 10 years. I am still wondering if I'm doing it right. 😂 I think these videos will help me out a little. 🤘🏻
wow! when I listen to what you tell me about the kind of northern paganism, I understand more and more, my own behavior and my thinking. thanks again! 🙏✨🦊
I really just want to say thank you for all of this. I've felt the call before in my life but didn't think it would be appropriate to answer given that I wasn't sure it would be appropriate for somebody of my background to embrace this faith but your videos (and especially the one where you addressed gatekeeping) have given me the soft push I needed to finally see through this path that my heart clearly wants. Thank you so, so very much!
@@TheNorseWitch Such as ignoring all archaeology and literary sources? Including Tacitus and Caesar. Wulf Sorenson and Dietrich Eckhart were right. Now you let Abrahamic Esther and Lilith archetypes continue their transvaluation of values in favor of Marxist slave morality to degrade and destroy the tribe. As above so below.
Well said. I don't prefer the company of others. Not just with faith. The more I get to know my fellow man, the more I appreciate the squirrels in my backyard. I felt drawn to this faith by accident. My mother made me promise she wouldn't get a Christian funeral. After researching different faiths for her, I felt really good about Hel. I did a small service with my mother's ashes, an altar to Hel, an offering and intent. I did not expect to continue to be interested after my service for my mom. I continue my own studies and practices a year on, now. I traded in my crucifix for a mjolnir. And I haven't looked back.
Respectfully, I would disagree that belief, especially rigid literal belief, is necessary to be a pagan. There are many examples of learned Greeks who would have been pagans but saw the gods or the mythology as allegorical or illuminating spiritual/ philosophical truth rather than literal truth. Keys to unlock esoteric doors in the mind and reality around us. We don’t have the same wealth of written information about Norse pagans but it is reasonable to assume there would have been similarities in this sense. Utter adherence to a religious text as literal truth is really a Christian paradigm that has now been assumed to be a tenet in all religions. That said, loved the video and the channel. Keep up the good work!
Hey, you mentioned good translations of the eddas and sagas that are available online; could you give us pointers to those? Both English and German ar very welcome 😊
I died of laughter when she said “wow that’s some bullshit” lmao! ALSO when she said Norse Paganisms 😂😂😂 It gave me quite the laugh. Anyway, great video, very informative. Thanks 🙏
Where should I go to find out if I want to start? I am on a path of self discovery, and so far Ive been down a path that has led me here. I am of the Norse decent, I found this out like... today. Prior, like maybe a month ago after explaining my beliefes for years but not knowing what to title myself as I stumbled across paganism, and was like THATS IT! I think... I know nothing of gods, godesses, I know I believe in the divine, and they dont take human form, I believe in nature, I believe in energy and everything has it. Ive never seen a "ghost" and dont believe in spirits "haunting" you. I do believe in (again) in ebergy and spirits can visit but in forms of energy its a feeling not vision... but thats me and what I believe, not saying I am a pagan... I know technically I come fro Norse decent so here I am. HELP! please
I would suggest you read up about Norse mythology and then just try to find out if it resonates with you or not. As a good beginners book for people who have NO clue I always recommend Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman because it’s very easy to read ☺️
You too?! I could have written this myself...word for word! Can we talk at all? I was awoken 3 months ago too. I'm first gen aussie born, my grand mother is (was) danish.
F.Y.I I do have an interest in Norse mythology and for awhile and even to some extent now I did have an interest in Norse Paganism but at some point I got into a disagreement with some guy on a Norse pagan Facebook group about what can be considered proper offerings to certain gods/dieties and he called me a fake Norse b***h and a poser and he said that I would never be capable of having a proper connection or relationship with the Norse Gods or be a true Norse pagan however then after that happend I sort just settled for Shinto which is a polytheistic animistic religion which is indigenous to Japan because I felt that it was probably more so right for me and that I simply didn't want to associate myself with rude jerks like that even though I probably should have just connected to other Norse pagans who weren't so unpleasant and would not have been so judgemental towards me.I don't really do all kinds of Shinto rituals other than maybe clapping my hands and bowing in order to salute and gain the attention of the Kami and directing my thoughts feelings desires and prayers towards various Kami including Amatarasu.I don't know if I would ever consider myself to be a Norse pagan ever again but part of still feels a pull to it even though I don't know if I'm really truly meant to be one or not.
As far as I know they didn’t. There were some kinds of rites of passage. For example babies that had survived a specific period of time and so were „worthy“ of life, were sprinkled with water to resemble that rite of passage into life. But I don’t know of any actual baptisms
do you have a fav Edda/sagas edition in English?? I've been looking on Amazon but the ones I've found are not that good and don't have illustrations :((
Unfortunately I don’t. I don’t even own an Edda in English. But I thought about buying one, because the only Eddas I find in Germany are all the same translation and I hate that one 🤣 so maybe an English one will feel better?
Have you looked into Jackson Crawford? He has a RU-vid channel & also books that he has translated into English as well as kept the originals in them as well. His channel is very educational if you want to look into it. His sagas don’t have illustrations. I’m afraid I have not come across any that do unless you possibly look into children’s versions that may have pictures.
Their is no mandatory things you HAVE to do to believe, but. Their are certain things you HAVE to do if you choose to call yourself a follower and practitioner of the Northern Perspective. Practicing seasonal “Blots”, ancestral and land spirit veneration, meditation on the runes, understanding that the Sagas are “Kenning” (‘appellation’ or ‘metaphor’) and understanding Animism. Good take Seiðr.
I disagree… especially on the thing with the runes. Not even back in pre Christian Scandinavia was everyone able to read or write or divine with the runes. So it makes no sense to have this be a mandatory skill as a Norse Pagan.
I agree tho, that these things are important. Especially Blóts. But saying that someone isn’t Norse Pagan because they can’t perform Blóts (eg because of disabilities) is ignorant in my opinion. Someone who doesn’t perform Blóts can still have an extremely strong connection to the gods. Also there are some people who don’t feel safe or comfortable venerating their ancestors because of Trauma. They’re still a valid Norse Pagan.
