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Welcome to the publications catalog of the Troth! We in the Troth practice the Germanic/Norse religion of Heathenry, commonly referred to as Ásatrú. There are many variations, names, and practices in Germanic Heathenry, including Theodism, Irminism, Odinism, and Anglo-Saxon Heathenry. What we all share is a defining personal loyalty to, or Troth with, the Gods and Goddesses of the Northlands. Our Gods are of two tribes: the Æsir, and the Vanir. These Gods are: Odin, Thor, Frigga, Frey, Freya,Tyr, Idunna, and many others. We are deeply proud of our Norse/Germanic religious, cultural, and historical heritage. We welcome all, whatever their religious background, who have heard the call of our Gods, and would like to know more about Germanic/Norse Heathenry. Our main Website is http://www.thetroth.org/, where you can find out more about our beliefs and practices, our organization, and our activities. We'll be periodically adding publications here -- especially back issues of our journal IDUNNA, as we get those converted to electronic format -- so if there's something you don't see on this page, drop us a line at troth-contact@thetroth.org and ask. Thank you for your interest!
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Print: $6.48 Download: $2.50 The ancient religious ways of the Germanic peoples -- the Norse, Anglo-Saxons, Goths, Germans, and many other tribes -- have not been extinguished. Many persons and groups have been working for years to revive them as a serious and meaningful religion for today. Asatru, Heathenry, Theodism, Odinism, Forn Sed, and the Elder Troth are just a few of the names for various modern sects and variants of this ancient, yet ever-growing religious tradition. This book is a brief yet comprehensive guide to this religion, written by one of its foremost and best-known scholars, ideal for anyone who has heard the call of the ancient Gods and is looking for the best way to answer.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $6.00 First published in 2004, this book is a compilation of over fifty scripts for a wide variety of Heathen rituals, written by Troth members and other Tru folk in a wide variety of styles. Rites in honor of the Gods and Goddesses are here; so are rites for the seasons of the holy year. The scripts are complemented by essays on Heathen religious practice, on creating your own rituals, and on daily devotional practices that anyone can do. Anyone who wishes to worship the Germanic Gods and Goddesses will learn much from this book.
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Print: $6.63 Download: $2.50 Prison is perhaps the most difficult place for spiritual growth and committment. The ancient pre-Christian religious ways of Scandinavia and the Germanic countries—commonly known as Asatru, Odinism, Heathenry, or by still other names—are one of the fastest-growing religions among the US prison population. Unfortunately, this religion is all too often tainted with a foreign ideology of racism and "white supremacy". How can prisoners who are Asatru, Odinist, or Heathen learn about their faith and live it out in daily life, in an authentic way? This book offers a course of study for incarcerated Heathens. It should also be useful for families and friends of inmates, and prison chaplains and administrators, who are interested in learning about Germanic religion as a living tradition today.
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Print: $7.27 Download: $3.00 Here's a blast from the past: our reprint of IDUNNA #5 (Vol. 2, issue 1) from back in July 1989. Our journal's "look" has evolved quite a lot since then -- and in fact, so has our entire organization. But this issue features excellent scholarship: James Chisholm on the "Lay of Alvis"; Dianne Luark Ross on "Women and the Runes"; Edred Thorson's "Who Will Build the Hearths of the Troth"; Dianne Luark Ross again on "A Symbol from Our Heritage"; Edred Thorson's Harvest blessing; James Chisholm's translation of the "Skirnismal" from the Poetic Edda; songs and reviews by Kveldulf Gundarsson; news and announcements; and the now-legendary "An Axe In The Park" story by Janos Gyori. Have a look at some of the deeper layers in the Well. . .
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Print: $7.14 Download: $3.00 Another classic issue from way back in our history: IDUNNA #10 (Vol. 3, Issue 2) from August 1991. Here's Edred Thorsson on "The Way of the Wanes" [Vanir]; William Bainbridge's account of an early version of Hrafnar's seidhr rite; Thorolf Ulfsson on Northern fighting techniques; Kveldulfr Gundarsson on "Soul and Afterlife"; James Chisholm on "Art in the Hearth"; and Dianne Luark Ross on "The Dises". Plus there's plenty of poetry and correspondence by Swain Wodening.
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Print: $7.19 Download: $3.00 Issue #33 of the Troth's quarterly journal, IDUNNA (Fall 1997), focuses on Thor, and on warriors in general. Here you'll find Birgit Knorr's translation of the Hildebrandslied and Kveldulf Gundarsson's translation of the Ynglingatal. Paul Zimmer, Angela Turner, and Thorskegga Thorn all offer their thoughts on Thor; Lynn Goodnight writes about William Tell; Dirk Mahling writes about the "Wehrbauern" or "fighter-farmers" of Germany; and Diana Paxson offers her short fiction "Oesc's Seat". There's letters to the editor, poems and artwork, recipes and reviews, the usual columns, and much more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 The Winter 1997 issue of the Troth's quarterly journal, IDUNNA (#34) focused on "Yule" as a theme. Here you'll find Alice Karlsdottir on dancing and ritual theater, Kveldulf Gundarsson on Yule and the dead, and a large selection of Yuletide carols, old and new. Plus seasonal recipes, book reviews, columns, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA #35 (Spring 1998) centers around the theme of "The Vanir". Here you'll find Alfgeir Freyjasgodhi on "The Rest of the Vanir" and "Brisingamen"; Kveldulf Gundarsson on the Wanes (Vanir); Jenny Blain's "Meditation on Yngvi-Freyr"; and Sheena McGrath's essay on "Are the Vanir Fertile?" Plus there's poetry, recipes, book reviews, and much more!
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Print: $7.19 Download: $3.00 The Troth's journal IDUNNA issue #37, from the autumn of 1998, focuses on "Seidh" magic. Here you'll find Diana Paxson writing on oracles in the Northern tradition; Yves Kodratoff on Nordic magical healing; Alfgeir Starkhendr and Jordsvin on aspects of seidh magic; and Stefn Thorsman on the "wheat mare" custom -- plus reviews, poetry, and columns.
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA #38 (Winter 1998), with the theme of "Runes", is now available from the Troth. With articles from KveldulfR Gundarsson and Stefn Thorsman, fiction from Charles Elsden, recipes, book reviews, columns and poetry, this surely belongs on the shelf of everyone who honors the Aesir and Vanir, the Gods of the North.
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Print: $7.19 Download: $3.00 Issue #39 (Spring 1999) of IDUNNA, the Troth's quarterly journal, has the theme of "Heathen Crafts". Robert Stine describes the Hof he built himself; Sagadis discusses Nordic knitting; Bekhildr talks about tablet weaving; Stefn Thorsman reports on the work of top craftsmen in many fields; and Diana Paxson writes about blessing magical tools. And as always, there's columns, letters, poetry, recipes, book reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue 40 of the Troth's journal IDUNNA (Summer 1999) features the theme of "Marriage". Winifred Rose describes Germanic marriage customs in her essay "The Purchase of a Bride". Birgit Knorr writes about daily life in Haithabu, or Hedeby, a Viking-era trading town on the Danish-German border. Diana Paxson presents a script for a contemporary Heathen wedding, and several folks discuss the meaning of marriage from a Heathen point of view. Plus there's recipes, poetry, book reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA #41 (Autumn 1999) is dedicated to the god Odin—also known as Woden, Wotan, Ódhinn, and by hundreds of other names. Freya Aswynn writes about her experiences with "Odin the Initiator", Swain Wodening writes about "Woden", Stefn Thorsman describes his own "Wodenic Rune Ritual", and Steve Wilson writes about "Basic Blót Construction". Several heathens describe their personal experiences with Odin in "Close Encounters of the Thridhi Kind". There's book and Web reviews, columns, recipes, news, artwork—and as you might expect, plenty of fine poetry.
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue #42 of IDUNNA (Winter 2000) features the theme of "The Norns". Here you'll find William Bainbridge on the relationship between frith and wyrd; Muninn on orlog; Dana Kramer-Rolls on Urth's well and Northrn cosmology; Diana Paxson on the Norns, wyrd and orlog; Swain Wodening on genealogy; and Erin Lale on "rune secrets of a phone psychic". Plus there's book reviews, letters, columns, poetry, recipes, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue #43 (Spring 2000) of IDUNNA, the Troth's quarterly journal, features the theme of "Frigga". Herein you'll find Diana Paxson writing on Frigga and her maidens; Rod Landreth on his own view of Frigga; Dana Kramer-Rolls on Northern cosmology; Laurel Mendes's blót to Frigga for brides; Sagadís on crafting cloth; Swain Wodening on neotribalism; and Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis on seidh and gender. Plus the usual columns, recipes, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA #45 (Autumn 2000), published by the Troth, has the theme "Vinland". Contributors include: Diana Paxson on visiting L'Anse aux Meadows; KveldulfR Gundarsson on Thorhallr in the Vinland Sagas, and on candle-making; Gus Sigmundsson on growing wheat; and Laz Chernik on his visit to Iceland. Plus a ritual to Nerthus, reviews, poetry, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Idunna #46, published back in winter 2001 by the Troth, focused on "Children" as its theme. You'll find Birgit Knorr writing on German folklore surrounding Frau Holle, Diana Paxson on "Kindreds and Kinder", tips on parenting for Heathens, short fiction by Charles Elsden, book reviews, recipes, poetry, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA #49, published in fall 2001 by the Troth, had "Ancestors" as its theme, and included articles by Jordsvin, Birgit Knorr, Nell Kraemer, Jenny Blain, and Galina Krasskova -- plus poetry, recipes, book reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue #51 (Spring 2002) of IDUNNA, the quarterly journal published by the Troth, featured the theme of "Freyja". Featured authors include Jordsvin and Patricia LaFayllve on the goddess Freyja, Gangar on magic, Birgit Knorr on the Second Merseburg Charm, plus poetry and stories, recipes, book and music reviews, our usual columnists, and much more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #53 of the Troth's journal IDUNNA focused on music. Freyjavin Grafeldr and Hrafnkel Anders review modern groups that play everything from reconstructed Viking-era music to the heaviest heavy metal. Lavrans Reimer-Moller talks about building and playing authentic Germanic lyres. Ben Waggoner pontificates about Richard Wagner's operas, Patricia LaFayllve reports on Norwegian folk songs, and Anthony Terpstra gives his personal insights into jazz and Heathenry. There's the usual columns, plus news, recipes, reviews, and of course, songs!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #54 of the Troth's journal IDUNNA, published in winter 2002, focuses on the god Tyr. Here you'll find essays on the god by Daniel O'Halloran and by Jordsvin. Patricia LaFayllve writes about honor, Rich Culver contributes his essay on the god Forseti, Galina Krasskova writes on martial arts, Charles Gadda talks about buying a sword, and William Bainbridge discusses metaphysics in "Laying Down: Law, Life, Time". Plus there's poetry, columns, reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 The Summer 2003 issue of the Troth's journal IDUNNA, issue #56, featured "Mead" as its theme. In this issue you'll find: Birgit Knorr on mead and the Indo-Europeans; Dan O'Halloran on Teutonic drinking customs; Hrafnkel Anders and Freyjavin Grafeldr on Viking drinking customs; Mike Murray on mead brewing; and Jordsvin on "Adventures in Mead Brewing". Plus there's a report on Trothmoot 2003, our usual columns, book and music reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue #57 of the Troth's quarterly journal IDUNNA, published in fall 2003, focused on the theme of "Freyr". Contributors include: Jordsvin on Yngvi-Freyr, Diana Paxson on Freyr and the cult of the ancestors, Jessica Blalock on her journey from Odin to Freyr -- plus poems, rituals, our regular columns, book and music reviews, and more!`
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue #58 (Winter 2003) of IDUNNA, the Troth's quarterly journal, featured the theme of "Fire and Ice". Authors include: Winifred Hodge Rose on the powers of creation; Ben Waggoner on heathenry and evolution; Patty Lafayllve and Jordsvin, both writing about fire and ice in Norse cosmology; Laure Washington on Rig's wisdom; short fiction by Diana Paxson; plus recipes, columns, book and music reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 The Summer 2004 issue (#60) of the Troth's journal IDUNNA focused on the theme of the Germanic hero. Here you'll find Jordsvin on Germanic heroes, Birgit Knorr on the hero Arminius, Kveldulf Gundardsson on Odin and Odinnic heroes, Jolene Dawe on Egill Skallagrimsson, and Jana Barkley on falconry and hunting. Plus there's book reviews, music reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #61 (Fall 2004) of IDUNNA, the quarterly journal published by the Troth, featured the theme of "Wayland the Smith". Here you'll find Jordsvin writing about Weland, Raudhulf Runameistari's translation of the Old Norse poel "Volundarkvidha", Rostan Fowlbeard on creative metalworking, Winifred Rose on the Anglo-Saxon charm "Against a Dwarf", Kurt Oertel on the hero Arbogast, Angela Carlson's report on the Parliament of World Religions. . . plus the usual columns, music reviews, book reviews, poetry, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA is the quarterly journal published by the Troth. Issue 62 (winter 2004) featured the theme of "The World-Tree", with contributions from Jordsvin on Yggdrasil, Winifred Hodge-Rose on Norwegian folk spells, Ben Waggoner on the Old Saxon poem Heliand, and Kurt Oertel on the hero Arbogast. Plus there's stories, song, columns, book and music reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 Issue #63 of IDUNNA, the Troth's quarterly journal, featured the theme of "Poetry" and showcased the work of many different poets working in a variety of forms and themes, as well as an article on the god Bragi written by Jordsvin, and the usual book and music reviews, columns, and more.
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA #64, published by the Troth, featured the theme of "Viking Games". Here you'll find: Ben Waggoner on both board-games and ball-games in the Norse sagas; Cliff Raeder on "loggets"; Stefn Thorsman on modern-day Viking games; Vidar on nine-men's-morris; and David Ballard on "The Games of the Gods". And of course, this issue features book reviews, music reviews, the usual columns, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #65 of IDUNNA, the quarterly journal published by the Troth, featured the theme of "Magic". In this issue we feature Birgit Knorr writing on German household magic, Jordsvin on seith and spae, Konstanze Hesse on help-runes, Ben Waggoner on letter divination, Jordsvin again on the Havamal, and Lorrie Wood on the nidhstong. And as always, there are book and music reviews, regular columns, poetry, news, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 This is issue 66 of IDUNNA, the quarterly journal of the Troth, with the theme of "Jotnar". Here you'll find: Diana Paxson on giants, Ben Waggoner on Norse cosmogony, William Bainbridge on elemental forces in spiritual practice, Juleigh Howard-Hobson on "troll-runes"—plus poetry, columns, news, book and music reviews, and more!
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Print: $7.21 Download: $3.00 The Troth's quarterly jounal IDUNNA #67, with the theme of "Idunna". Featuring short stories "Idunna and Thjassi" by Dottye Blake and "Idunna's Apples' by Winifred Hodge Rose, plus articles by Kveldulf Gundarsson on Ostara, Winifred Hodge Rose on Heathen soul-lore, and Juleigh Howard-Hobson on the Uthark runic theory. Plus there's poems, book reviews, music reviews, news, and much more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #68 of IDUNNA, the Troth's quarterly journal of Heathen religion, focusing on "Anglo-Saxons". In this issue, you'll find Stephen Pollington's "The Anglo-Saxon Background", Birgit Knorr on "The Saxons", Jennifer Culver on "The Significance of Gifting", Swain Wodening on "Wod and Will", and Diana Paxson on "Exploring Sutton Hoo" -- plus poetry, reviews of books and music, the usual columns, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #69 of the Troth's quarterly journal IDUNNA, with a focus on "Law". Featuring Ben Waggoner on law, Birgit Knorr on the Saxons, Ulf Asgardson on the runes, Winifred Hodge Rose on heathen soul-lore, Everte Farnell on success, plus book and music reviews, artwork, poetry, columns, news, and much more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #70 of the Troth's quarterly journal IDUNNA, featuring the theme of "Afterlives". Here you'll find: short fiction by Ben Waggoner and by Diana Paxson, Winifred Hodge on heathen soul lore, Lorrie Wood on draugar (undead), and Melanie Rowand-White on the virtue of courage. Plus book and music reviews, heathen news, poetry, columns, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 Issue #71 of the Troth's journal IDUNNA features the theme of "Walpurgisnacht", the May Eve festival of the Germanic lands. Winifred Hodge Rose and Ben Waggoner present their views of the holiday; there's fiction from Patty Lafayllve, songs and poems for the season, plus book and music reviews, regular columns, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 The Summer 2007 issue of IDUNNA, the quarterly magazine published by the Troth, is now available! The theme of this issue is "The Runes". Here you'll find fact-filled articles from Patricia Lafayllve, Mike Smith, Steve Pollington, and Ulf Asgardson. Plus there's poetry. . . columns about mead and herb-lore. . . book reviews, music reviews, columns, news, and more!
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Print: $7.23 Download: $3.00 IDUNNA issue 73 (Fall 2007), published by the Troth, focuses on the theme of "The Land". Here you'll find Mike Smith's essay "The Land and its Glories", Ben Waggoner's discussion of global climate change from a heathen perspective, Michaela Macha's short story "In The Beginning", and the next in Winifred Rose's series of essays on heathen soul-lore. And you'll find heathen news, poetry, music and book reviews, our children's corner, regular columns, and more!
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Print: $7.25 Download: $3.00 Here's the Winter 2007 issue of the Troth's journal IDUNNA (issue #74), with the theme "Yule Fires". Here you'll find Frigga Asraaf on the Sunwheel, Ben Waggoner on runes and divination, Michaela Macha's travelogue of her visit to the Danish heathen group Forn Sidr, Gary Penzler on drinking horns -- plus poetry, regular columns, book and music reviews, and much more!
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