Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.
Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland.
“I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,” said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ãsatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.
We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”
““I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,†said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ãsatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.
We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.—
There you have it- revisionist Norse mythology. The new temple will provide a proper place for the facilitated conversations between the worshipers of Thor and the worshipers of Loki.
🙂 TJ!
“If once we can produce our perfect work – the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping what he vaguely calls “Forces” while denying the existence of “spirits” – then the end of our war will be in sight.” Screwtape Letter VII