Statement of Faith

Our Statement of Faith

We believe in the goodness and beauty in the world, and we believe that it’s greatest expression is to be found in the peace and joy that we call Frith.

We believe in the power found in our Gods and Goddesses, and their relationships with our ancestors, which provide us with a connection to them today and into the future.

We believe in the spirits of the land, known as Landwights, and we seek to strengthen our bonds to them by acknowledging them as our intercessors between the land itself and Mother Earth.

We believe in accountability for our actions, and in the necessity for right conduct and respect for all men and women.  We are informed in this by the words of Allfather Odin in the Havamal.  We recognize that the tales of the Gods and Goddesses in the Eddas and Sagas are a treasured example passed on to us for how to live and strive to be like our Gods and Goddesses.

We believe that men and women are judged by words and deeds, and that the words spoken during Blot and Sumbel are holy, as they are spoken at a time when we are assembled to openly pay our respects to the Gods, Goddesses, and Ancestors.  

We believe that these words spoken in our holy rites are passed into the drink they are spoken over through Galdr, and that their power is infused into that drink to be shared with all.  We believe that when we pour out a libation, the power and good will in that libation is shared with the Gods, Goddesses, and Ancestors, a gift for a gift, from the Gods to the Earth, to us, and from us to the Earth, to the Gods.

We believe that the spirits of our ancestors, our Disir, watch over us always, and that we are never alone as we walk through this world and the next.  We believe that these ancestral spirits will be waiting for us in the next world after death to guide us to the Judgement of the Gods, and that they will speak well for all but the most evil of souls.  We believe what is written in the Eddas, that our Gods and Goddesses will judge us leniently, and welcome us into the halls of our ancestors or abodes of the Gods as best befits us after death.