Children’s Frigga Blessing

written by Skarpheðinsson of the Great Bear Kindred Based upon Steve McNallen’s Frigga Blót and the ritual of the Great Bear Kindred, with suggestions by Eirikr of the Hofbrau Kindred (The Gyðia faces north, takes the sword from the adult assistant, and raises it, saying): Sword in the North, hold and hallow this holy stead!…

The Nine Noble Virtues For Kids

The Nine Noble Virtues For Kids (And Other Interested Parties) By Annette Hinshaw The Nine Noble Virtues (NNV) are guidelines for how you should behave, both what kinds of choices you make and how you act. In the Ásatrú religion, the NNV are there to help people decide what to do in their everyday lives.…

Eric Brighteyes 10

HOW ASMUND SPOKE WITH SWANHILD Now as the days went, though Atli’s ship was bound for sea, she did not sail, and it came about that the Earl sank ever deeper in the toils of Swanhild. He called to mind many wise saws, but these availed him little: for when Love rises like the sun,…

Eric Brighteyes 9

HOW SWANHILD DEALT WITH GUDRUDA Now Jon, Eric’s thrall, watched all night on Mosfell, but saw nothing except the light of Whitefire as it smote the Baresark’s head from his shoulders. He stayed there till daylight, much afraid; then, making sure that Eric was slain, Jon rode hard and fast for Middalhof, whither he came…

Eric Brighteyes 8

HOW OSPAKAR BLACKTOOTH FOUND ERIC BRIGHTEYES AND SKALLAGRIM LAMBSTAIL ON HORSE-HEAD HEIGHTS Now Skallagrim led Eric to his cave and fed the fire and gave him flesh to eat and ale to drink. When he had eaten his fill Eric looked at the Baresark. He had black hair streaked with grey that hung down upon…

Eric Brighteyes 7

HOW ERIC WENT UP MOSFELL AGAINST SKALLAGRIM THE BARESARK Now Atli the Good, earl of the Orkneys, comes into the story. It chanced that Atli had sailed to Iceland in the autumn on a business about certain lands that had fallen to him in right of his mother Helga, who was an Icelander, and he…

Eric Brighteyes 6

HOW ASMUND THE PRIEST WAS BETROTHED TO UNNA For a moment there was silence, for all that company was wonderstruck at the greatness of the deed. Then they cheered and cheered again, and to Eric it seemed that he slept, and the sound of shouting reached him but faintly, as though he heard through snow.…

Eric Brighteyes 5

HOW ERIC WON THE SWORD WHITEFIRE Now Asmund the priest bent down, and Eric saw him and spoke: “Thou badest me to thy Yule-feast, lord, by yonder slippery road and I have come. Dost thou welcome me well?” “No man better,” quoth Asmund. “Thou art a gallant man, though foolhardy; and thou hast done a…

Eric Brighteyes 4

HOW ERIC CAME DOWN GOLDEN FALLS Now Ospakar rode up to Middalhof on the day before the Yule-feast. He was splendidly apparelled, and with him came his two sons, Gizur the Lawman and Mord, young men of promise, and many armed thralls and servants. Gudruda, watching at the women’s door, saw his face in the…

Eric Brighteyes 3

HOW ASMUND BADE ERIC TO HIS YULE-FEAST Now it was supper-time and men sat at meat while the women waited upon them. But as she went to and fro, Gudruda always looked at Eric, and Swanhild watched them both. Supper being over, people gathered round the hearth, and, having finished her service, Gudruda came and…