We also plug some pagan podcasters, Deo’s Shadow (www.deos-shadow.com) and Mid-Michigan Pagan Podcast (http://midmichiganpaganpodcast.podcastpeople.com). Those Mid-Michigan folks kindly interviewed us (for a change) in a two part series, Episodes 17 and 18. Deo has a snappy interview with Dr. Brendan Myers about pagan Ethics (#39).

Please let us know if you are interested in running classes or vending at ECT, as we would like talk to you for a special podcast.

This is basically a podcast about the application of research. (By request we did more about the Gods.) We pop open our Poetic Edda and Prose Edda and pull a few things out. We hope that folk see the process and are inspired to do some homework themselves.

Feel free to send us ideas for other Asatru 101 podcasts.

Please feel free to send this around.

For all those podcasters out there, you can drop a comment here and we’ll check you out for cross promotion.

The Eldaring website (and in English)

Ingmar also mentioned a site for many Northern European contacts.

Some Lore links about Yule: http://home.earthlink.net/~wodensharrow/yule.html http://www.simnet.is/gardarj/yule2.htm

This year at Yule we focus on the modern celebration of Yule and practices. We do a quick interview with Rick Oberg about his private practice with his family at Yule. I read a fun little poem called the Yule Cat. Sandi and I “discuss” whether Santa’s roots come from Odin or Thor.

Very Merry Yule Everyone!

For more information about the IG have a look at the web page at http://www.irminenschaft.net/

Next Month: Yule!

Asatru is a religion first and foremost but there is a place for magical practices that are outgrowths from the Lore. We talk about what that means and give a very, very quick gloss on the common magical practices.

Please send us ideas for other Asatru 101 podcasts.

Next week we will have out our last National Asatru Organization podcast.

Next Month: The Irminen-Gesellschaft

Many, many translations can be found at Northvegr Foundation Website. Please feel free to plug away, if you like our stuff. Every comment or vote that you leave helps us get out there and is much appreciated.

We greatly appreciate every comment that we receive whether positive or critical. However, we will not approve any comment or respond to any email that attempts to debate the merit of Asatru as a religion. The discussion of Asatru is the entirety of this podcast.

We do not appreciate comments left that attempt to be divisive or in anyway stifle the constructive comments left by others.

We state this, not to limit discussion, but to clarify our thought process. Especially, since in the many months that we have been doing this a grand total of one comment we found inappropriate.

Next Month: the Asatru Alliance

For more information about the The Troth check out http://www.thetroth.org. For those interested in finding local Stewards you can go directly to the Troth Steward Locator page. You can also contact The Troth at troth-contact@thetroth.org.

Next Month: The Odinic Rite

Please remember to follow the links under Podcast Directories. Every comment or vote that you leave helps us get noticed and is much appreciated.

For more information about the AFA check out runestone.org. You can also contact Stephen directly at AFA@runestone.org.

To have a look at what is going on in Washington DC for the Pagan rally on July 4 go to paganreligiousrights.org.

Next month: The Troth

We hope this provides inspiration and structure for folks to do their own Asatru rituals.

Midsummer~ A solid description of Midsummer celebrations and practices Midsummer Wiki Troth description of Midsummer a Midsummer description from the Odin’s Volk Site

Sunna~ Sunna Wiki a concise description of Sunna

Baldur~ Baldur Wiki Baldur’s Myth a concise description of Baldur

Tyr~ Tyr Wiki a concise description of Tyr

a great page for general info on the gods and godesses

Kubb!~ Kubb Wiki Old Time Games Kubb Game

Next month: Midsummer!

We know we came away from this episode with new insights, not just about Loki but about how to research responsibly. It’s with this in mind that we would like to send out seperate Asatru Basics episodes on this feed. So send us your questions . . . we promise to answer them.

In addition we plug our other podcast Spoken Lore. We also thank Odin Lives Radio, for having us on for a guest appearance.

Some of the topics discussed were Asatru community, the nine noble virtues, the idea of Asatru becoming mainstream. The poetic Edda and the Sagas of the Icelanders

We’ve also added some new links under New To Asatru. As the heading implies these are great links to basic information for those just starting.

We pulled information from three specific sagas ~ Grimnismal Reginsmal Olaf’s Saga

We had great fun interviewing Bill Dwinnells about Ethics in this episode. The main discussion is about the reasons for appropriate action by an Asatruar.

Please pay no attention to your sickly hosts

In this Episode The Havamal from the Poetic Edda is used several times as a reference so check it out!

related Links :

the Lay of Alvis ~ http://www.angelfire.com/wy/wyrd/alvissmal.html

Sunna ~ http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ewodensharrow/grimnismal.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_%28goddess%29 Dave retold this story ~ http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/huntsman.html

next month - YULE!

www.myspace.com/totemmusicusa www.ravennorth.org

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Thanks to Jeff Wells for the great music!