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As the harvest season is nearing its end, we come to a time of year where we look back with pride on the work we have accomplished...

Born in October of 1848 in Vienna, Guido Karl Anton List was the son of a prosperous middle-class family who traded and worked in the...

The AFA would like to wish all our Folk a bountiful Winter Finding! The ancient calendar only recognized two seasons. There was summer,...

Grimm’s fairy tales, as well as the classic book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, taught me as a child that some gardens...

This is a simple ritual to connect with the goddess Eir. Eir is connected to healing, whether that be recovery from a physical ailment...

For many of us, it is a foreign concept that our word has meaning. For our ancestors, over many millennia, an individual’s word was their...

"Show yourselves men this day, for tomorrow will be too late. There is no safety for you but in victory!” -King Totila of the Ostrogoths...

Beneath the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil is a well whose water contains much wisdom and intelligence, and the master of which is...

An experience; Many years ago, while just recently aware of our Elder Traditions, I came across Edred Thorsson's books about Runes. The...

Our celebration of Freyfaxi, the beginning of the harvest, is quickly approaching. In olden times, the significance of this season was...

Though Freyfaxi is, in name, a modern holiday the celebration around which it is centered is much older. Dedicated to Freyr, our...

Hails from Northern Idaho! This month we discussed the Rune Kenaz of the Elder futhark and KA from the Armanen runes. Old English rune...

Yo-Ho! Hail Njörð! Njörðr, lord of the sea; Yo-Ho! Hail Njörðr! Grant us prosperity. Down by the shore – in Nóatún lives; a prince of...

Radbod, known as the greatest King of the Frisians, spent his life tirelessly fighting against the subjugation of the Franks. While his...

I have joked a few times this summer about how "it sure has been a hot summer for the AFA". We have had some people, inside and outside...