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 [...]
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We are Part of the Soul of the Land: Relationship is the Root of Everything
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 [...]
Tribe as the Foundation for the Reconstruction of Heathenry
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 [...]
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
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 [...]
Heathenry Faced Cultural Colonization
Heathenry faced colonization. Its peoples were coerced to convert to a new culture and religion.