{"id":48210,"date":"2015-02-03T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_iceland_to_build_first_temple_to_norse_gods_since_viking_age\/"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:00:37","slug":"guardian_iceland_to_build_first_temple_to_norse_gods_since_viking_age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48210","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island\u2019s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,\u201d\u009d said Hilmar \u00c3\u2013rn Hilmarsson, high priest of \u00c3\u0081satr\u00c3\u00baarf\u00c3\u00a9lagi\u00c3\u00b0, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.<\/p>\n<p>We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/feb\/02\/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island\u2019s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48210\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,200,133,480,155,108,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-history","category-iceland","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-wicca-paganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}