ODIN'S WARRIOR TRIBE

In light of the recent changes to military religious preference codes, Odin’s Warrior Tribe strongly recommends that all Heathens — especially active-duty military, veterans, law enforcement, and first responders — prepare a will and written instructions for their next of kin on how they wish to be buried and how their funeral services should be conducted in the Heathen tradition. This should be part of your personal readiness. It may be attached to your will, placed with you

When we read the Icelandic sagas, we are not merely following old stories of quarrels, marriages, voyages, and killings. We are probing into the lives of people in the sagas: their loyalties, their pride, their errors, their moments of greatness, and the hidden wounds that drive them. Few figures reward that kind of close attention more than Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir of Laxdæla saga. She is one of the most vivid women in all Old Norse literature: beautiful, brilliant, proud, wound

Animals were never merely background scenery in the Norse world. They pulled carts and sledges, guarded homes, hunted beside men, carried riders across land and battlefield, kept ships and storehouses free of vermin, provided food and clothing, and stood at the edge of myth as companions of gods, omens of fate, and powers in their own right. They also accompanied often into the afterlife. To understand the Viking Age without animals is to misunderstand the living world in wh

Odin’s Warrior Tribe rejects both folkish and universalist attitudes in heathenry because both, in different ways, distort what a serious tradition must be. We reject folkishness because it reduces the sacred to race, ancestry, and fantasies of blood purity. Some of the claims made by folkish voices about their “pure” ancestry are historically weak and far too simplistic for serious people to accept uncritically. Worse, folkish circles too often draw racists, extremists, and

These three snippets in the title come from the Havamal, a comment by an Englishman on Norse men attracting English women, and the account of Ibn Falan in "Risala" and what we presume was his encounter with Swedish "Volga" Vikings – Rus. The familiar claim that “Norse were cleaner than everyone else” is catchy, but it is not the strongest way to frame the subject. The better argument is more precise: grooming, washing, hair care, and bodily presentation mattered in Vikin

Few phrases capture the old northern inheritance of Shetland and Orkney more powerfully than Með lögum skal land byggja — “By law shall the land be built.” In Shetland it survives as the council motto, but its roots reach much deeper into the legal culture of the medieval North. The proverb appears in a fuller form in Njáls saga, and a related form opens the preface to Jyske Lov, the Law of Jutland issued in 1241. It is one of those rare sayings that still carries the weight

In Odin's Warrior Tribe, we do not claim to resurrect the past as if we could step backward into it unchanged. No one can do that. We are not reenactors of belief. We are reconstructors of a living faith—men and women who have chosen to stand again beneath the old sky, not because we imagine ourselves perfect descendants, but because we feel the gods as real and present, and we refuse to let the sacred inheritance die. The Norse faith we carry is not a museum piece. It is a

In the Eddic sources, the World Serpent is most often named in two intricately linked forms: Jörmungandr (a name carried in the prose tradition and scholarly usage) Jǫrmungandr (Old Norse) and Miðgarðsormr (“Midgard Serpent,” literally the serpent associated with Miðgarðr, the human world) Snorri’s Gylfaginning explicitly glosses Jörmungandr as “the Midgard Serpent,” making the identity unambiguous in the prose record. What matters in the Eddic portrayal is not only that the

Visit to Vrak Museum and "Vikings Before Vikings": Stockholm, August 2025 In August 2025, the Chieftain walked into Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm and into an exhibition that quietly rearranged the internal map of the Viking Age. Vikings Before Vikings does not argue that Lindisfarne (793) didn’t happen, or that the raid shouldn’t remain the clean “start line” for the Viking Age in popular history. It simply does something more dangerous to our assumptions: it puts ph

In the Norse worldview, strength was not merely physical. Power was not always about domination. And this power was not just muscle or arms. In the language of our ancestors, there existed a deeper word for sacred strength — one rooted in life, in will, in divine sanction. That word is MEGIN. Megin (Old Norse) refers to innate might, a life-force or spiritual power that lives within a being, a place, or even an object. It is the animating strength behind heroic deeds, godly

Thoughts drawn from the Hávamál, the Sagas, and the lived experience of Odin’s Warrior Tribe Introduction In the old world, the Germanic Tribes and Norse understood that love and marriage were not passing pleasures but sacred bonds shaping family, tribe, and fate. The Hávamál and the sagas tell us that a wise match strengthens the hall, while a foolish one sows ruin. The same truths echo today, though the forms of trial have changed. This teaching gathers ancient counse

The crisis of suicide among post-9/11 U.S. veterans has generated a vast literature seeking to explain its unprecedented scale. According...

Weyland the Smith – known as Völundr in Old Norse and Welund in Old English – is a legendary blacksmith whose tale spans the Norse,...

The Överhogdal tapestries (Överhogdalstapeten), discovered in 1910 in a medieval church in Härjedalen, Sweden, are among the most...

“Washed and fed, one may fare to the Thing: Though one's clothes be the worse for Wear, None need be ashamed of his shoes or hose, Nor of...

Introduction The Viking Age trading town of Birka, located on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden, was one of the most important...

By the Chieftain - A critical, location-based analysis of the temple, grove, and sacrificial tree in relation to today’s Gamla Uppsala -...

Much like many Tribe members wear their EDC knives – more on that in a bit, accounts in the Icelandic Sagas indicate that the personal...

To project modern ideologies—whether political or religious—onto the world of our ancestors and our faith is not merely a historical...

Throughout ancient northern Europe, wetlands served as sacred portals between the human world and the divine. Germanic peoples –...