Wyrd gaéð á swá hío sċeal.'
(Fate goes ever as she shall’)

The soul has a course of life inherent in it, as one of its qualities. Fate, or as we also might say, history, is not, any more than luck, a thing lying outside a man; nor does it merely hang about him as a necessary result of his character. It is luck itself, it is his nature. It is born out of him in the same way as fruitfulness and victory. It is on this identity between fate and will that the bold fatalism of the Northmen depends.

― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1

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Luck & Frith is life; fate

“Hamingja is a nature that can only act in its determined manner, and only to the end that lies in itself. Hamingja can only produce its predetermined effect: this particular honour, will, and fate, and must create these or those personalities, in their peculiar relations within and without. Therefore it comes as a personality, a force — and always it is itself. Luck constitutes a whole, alike throughout and indivisible; therefore, every quality of man possesses the whole force of the hamingja. Frith is life, and in Germanic thought, it is as the soul itself, and thus to lose frith and luck is to die.”

― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1

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Everything is Spiritual

The ancient thought does not oscillate over the contrast between soul and body. There is a contrast between the material and the spiritual existence, and the divergence between the two forms of human manifestation is great enough to set thoughts in motion, but not wide enough to range them into two hostile arrays. The tension between existence of the spiritual and sensing of the tangible is not yet grown so strong that the two poles will separately draw experiences to them and hold them fast in two groups, so as to make a breach or a problem.

― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volume 1

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Build your Clan

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The Old Belief

From the ancient North comes the spiritual legacy of our folk, passed on from the very words of our highest God, whom we call Wóden. His blood flows through our veins, for he is our creator, our earliest ancestor who gave us life with his divine wisdom. He and his brothers, Hanwer and Léod, found two trees or logs lying on a beach and from them created the first of our kind, known as Æsċ and Elm. Léod gave them the ability to move, as well as their divine image, what is called blood with ġebǽru and wlite goda. Our All-Father, Wóden, then gave them gást, a ‘Spirit,’ to connect us to him and all the other Gods and Goddesses through sacred practice. His is the ability to sing, to pray, to chant, and to speak with our breath. Finally, Hanwer gave the sáwol, which is our ability to be inspired by the Gods, and how we manifest that inspiration. Wóden is the God whose primary function is to send inspiration through his power of the runes. It is the "gift for a gift" tradition of praying and receiving that is so holy to our ancient way.*

~ Mark Puryear, Odisbook: The Book of Odr

*With ON terms translated into OE

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Ésatréow Arise

For several decades now, there has been a religious revival taking place all over the Western world among the descendants of the indigenous peoples of Northern Europe. This religion, known as Ésatréow (Ay-zah-tray-oh), meaning ‘Belief in the Gods’, or Wodendom, embodies the wisdom, lore, and customs of an ancestral culture developed in Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Sweden, England, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. The children of these lands, who have explored the entire world, spread the values and ideals ingrained within this belief system wherever they went, even after they were converted to a foreign dogma. These values include a respect for honor and valor, as well as kindness and compassion, and a fierce devotion to the concepts of liberty and independence. We worship many deities, and therefore understand that, just as there are various Gods and Goddesses, there are various ways to connect to them. As one source states “There is no truth, but there are truths,” so we will not dictate to one another how each are supposed to live their lives on the Wodenish path, as long as we do so with honor and integrity. However, when we establish our Schools of Thought, as other polytheistic systems have, we can build a solid foundation of belief and moral integrity.

~ Mark Puryear, Odisbook: The Book of Odr

*With ON terms translated into OE

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Old English Terms (with Modern English forms):

Treówþ - 1. truth, good faith, honour; 2. fidelity 3. a covenant, an assurance of good faith.
MdE Truth

Tréow - 1. truth to a promise or engagement, faith (as in good or bad faith, to keep faith with a person), troth: 2. truth to a person, fidelity, fealty, loyalty 3. the truth of the stronger to the weaker, grace, favour, help 4. an assurance of faith or truth, word (in to give or pledge one's word), a promise, an engagement, a covenant, league
MdE Truce

Tréowa - An assurance of good faith, a covenant
MdE Truce


Tréowe - True, faithful, trustworthy
MdE True

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