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music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Further Videos
Mythic Literalism: youtu.be/eMk59p1ffQE
Recon vs Eclecticism: youtu.be/p9edwMiYsX4
Which Pantheon is True?: youtu.be/WE44CHjvzcA
Can We Know the Gods Exist?: youtu.be/LzxIFxCxJ9Y
Reciprocity with the Gods: youtu.be/D2pCGqtfxZc
Offerings: youtu.be/OmGmpBGl1yA
True Reconstructionism: youtu.be/9tCLjFT6J2w
The Ancient Germanic Faith: youtu.be/CDWC6mqdp2Y
Freyr: youtu.be/N5norUmt7mE
Ullr: youtu.be/dlE-Or8N5bk
Aegir and Ran: youtu.be/FiyZTlCczDw
Loki: youtu.be/r4Tk_vBthJE
Hel: youtu.be/ktEdpreG2mg
Jormungandr: youtu.be/RnOrlpKDIyE
Fenrir: youtu.be/A0dNasvVewk
Sol and Mani: youtu.be/e2YmvQUmeZ8

Further Reading
- Volcanos in Old Norse Mythology - Mathias Nordvig
- Myth and Religion of the North - EOG Turville-Petre
- The Pre-Christian Religions of the North
- Dictionary of Northern Mythology - Rudolf Simek
- Norse Mythology: A guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs - John Lindow
- The Book of Settlements / Landnamabok
- Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson
- Poetic Edda, especially Voluspa
- Eyrbyggja Saga
- Saga of Grettir the Strong
- Saga of Gisli Sursson
- Our Troth 3rd Edition, Volume 2
- Characters - Theophrastus (Particularly The Superstitious Man)
- On the Nature of the Gods - Cicero
- On Superstition - Plutarch

- Surtshellir: A Fortified Outlaw Cave in West Iceland, Olafsson, Smith, McGovern
- Ritual Responses to Catastrophic Volcanism in Viking Age Iceland: Reconsidering Surtshellir Cave through Bayesian Analysis of AMS Dates, Tephrochronology, and texts - Olafsson, Smith, Palsdottir
- All That Glitters is Not Gold: Multi-Instrumental Identification of Viking Age Orpiment (As2S3) from Surtshellir Cave, Iceland - Olafsson, Smith

00:00 - Intro
03:01 - Muspell, Ragnarök & Freyr
08:36 - Iceland & Volcanoes
11:10 - Surtshellir
12:52 - Outlaw Hideout
15:37 - Ritual Site
17:44 - The Fire, The Cross & Conversion
23:37 - Worshipping a Demon?
27:20 - The Troth & Selective Perceptions of Destruction
31:21 - Historical Evidence for Worship Standard
35:11 - Spirituality, Poetry and Reconstructionism
42:14 - Modern Views and Oversimplifying The Gods