Recent Articles
My Path Toward Profession
By Hariulf OR
The decision to take the Oath of Profession was a very long process. I am not a person who makes decisions on a whim. Some years have passed now since I joined the Rite. I must say that from my first contacts with the OR, I knew it was an organization where I would feel good, and I knew that I made the right choice. Continue reading
The Runic Era: Some History of the New Awakening
By Heimgest DCG
We receive many enquiries about OR practices and questions/misunderstandings about the Runic Era are not rare. Here then are the facts. Continue reading
Profession and Naming Ceremony
By Wolfram OR
Let me start by saying, it was a great honour for me to be professed as I have been a member for several years now. I’ve held off until recently in applying to be professed as there were conditions/circumstances in my personal life that made me feel unfit for the commitment. I’m now a father of two lovely baby girls and we are an Odinist family Continue reading
Death: The Meaning of Life
A Great Moot talk by Eowyn OR
How many of you here know the meaning of life? How many of you are searching for it? Well, I will tell you right now what it is. You, you, you- and you- are all going to die! Every single one of us in this room. It could be today, tomorrow, a year or decades from now. But the immutable fact of life is that nobody but nobody escapes death. It is the one uniting factor of all life on Earth. Continue reading
Odin and the Tower
By Harry S AOR
Nothing could escape Odin’s eye when he sat in his High Seat of Hlidskjalf. He would cast himself onto its velvet upholstery, and let his mind move over all the worlds. One particular day, not so long ago in the memory of our people, he sat there and gazed over the multiverse. Continue reading
From a Word to a Word
By Volksieg AOR
Language is one of the greatest tools and gifts mankind has ever wielded. Imagine a world without language? The rich inner world we each inhabit and explore cannot even take shape without the tools which language has provided. Continue reading
Freedom
by Redwald OR
When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, “Are you a man as ought to escape from a yoke?”, he sparked an interesting dilemma for anyone of an evolutionary Odinic mindset. Continue reading
Function, Faith, Frith
by Michael Boyd AOR
In the microcosm and macrocosm there exist paradigms, or patterns, that determine everything. Plato called these “forms”, they are also known as Ideals. This is true of physics as it is of metaphysics yet our focus here is of course to the spiritual and the Odinic ambition of continual “Becoming”
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The 3 Secrets
By Reginhard OR
I heard it said once; “If you see a problem in the world, you be the change that solves the problem.” So what I would like to discuss is how do we stand up and be that solution. How can we work towards strengthening our folk. Continue reading
The Great Theft – Part 1
By Wayne W AOR
The Boy sat forward as if he knew the words being spoken were for him and him alone. And in the flickering light at the dying of the year The Old Man told The Boy the tale of The Great Theft. Continue reading
