Boozhoo Anishinaabeg. My name is Trevor Swoverland. I grew up in northern Wisconsin and I currently live in northeastern Minnesota. My people arrived here from the Highlands of Scotland, the southwestern part of Ireland, and near the Black Forest in Germany. I have written this to you because I am in your debt, and I [...]
By Honor Schauland The idea that we are separate from the land and the ecosystems we live in is hilarious. How can we possibly be separate? I live in an ecosystem. I am an ecosystem. I travel through many ecosystems in a day or in a week. I am made up of many ecosystems. My [...]
By Trevor Swoverland In my last essay Tribe as the Foundation for the Reconstruction of Heathenry I wrote about how our experiences in the Nordskogen Stamme have really driven home for us the importance of rebuilding tribal relationships and identity in the effort to reconstruct pre-conversion Germanic worldview and lifeways. We have also written essays [...]
By Trevor Swoverland There have been several threads on the Facebook group associated with this website recently in which the idea of reconstituting tribal relationships in the effort to reconstruct Germanic tribal spiritualities that existed prior to colonization and conversion has been looked at as unnecessary or even toxic by some participants. While most of [...]
by Crystal Shilling Originally posted on realheathenry.com For two thousand years Christianity has spread across the Old World and into the New World with great fierceness. Much of the ancient world is lost because of this and yet some things have survived or have been discovered. In the modern world, our culture is saturated with [...]
3/25/2019 This article, written by Lee Gregsson, is an effort to share the collective understanding of worldview according to the families that constitute the Nordskogen Stämme. Our Stämme (tribe) feels that there are some important aspects of a traditional and functional heathen worldview that are commonly missed, or even argued against. As such we have [...]
By Michael Spires 3/19/2019 There was once a people, a people in possession of learned and scientific mind. They turned from the ways of those who came before, and instead of worshipping the gods and goddesses, they worshipped a philosophy. They worshipped Progress. This philosophy, this Cult of Progress served the people well. New innovations [...]
The articles on this site are created out of conversations that occur in the Decolonizing Heathenry facebook group. As such, the authorship credit goes to the people in that group. That being said, this essay was compiled (and narrated) by Kaare Melby. The way wild space is viewed when you live in the city is nearly opposite [...]
Heathenry faced colonization. Its peoples were coerced to convert to a new culture and religion.
For most Heathens, the only worldview they have ever even conceived of is the colonized worldview.
Decolonizing Heathenry 