Asatru question?

Question

what is a "Forn" and why doesn't wikipedia have any info on it??? LOL

Thank you so much :)

P.S. Is it possible to be a Solitary practitioner of Asatru? I ask this because i know that Asatru holds the Tribe above most all other things, it has a Huge emphasis on Family.

Thanks again :)

Answer 1

I suppose I am considered "solitary". LOL
I do not belong to a kindred BUT I do like to be around people. I am all about home and hearth and I was like that even before I was called to the Gods. It happens to be something my religion is about so I lucked out.
I am friends with people of all traditions. I have done moon magic with Sumerians, Samhain with Kemetics, Midsummer with Wiccans...its fun! Yule is my holiday. I have laid dibbs on it. So Yule, we will do it Heathen style. ;)
"Practicing" is every day in everything you do. It's how you apporach life, approach family, approach yourself. It's family, and freinds and kindred. It's home and hearth and folk.
This includes anyone of importance to you who is worthy of that place. They don't have to "pass the mead" to be a part of your kin. The only person in my immediate family who is heathen is my brother in law. While I have pagans in my family, only the two of us have heard the call of the gods. I find no offense in that either way.
My kin spread over the miles and over the years. In that sense, I'm never "solitary". They are an IM, phone call or car ride away. Rituals are just that rituals. But LIVING Asatru is much harder.

Answer 2

I agree with Adam. The Old Norse-English dictionary I have says 'forn' = 'old.'

Also, most practitioners of Asatru that I know were once Christians or members of another religion. As such, they have generally become outcasts from their family members who still belong to their previous religion. Solitary practitioners are certainly possible, although the Asatruars I know tend to form small groups of like-minded individuals, just like the practitioners of most other religions.

Of course, I don't know a huge number of Asatruars, so it might not be a representative sample. Still, it does seem a bit ironic that a religion which values the family can tend to divide it.

Answer 3

"Still, it does seem a bit ironic that a religion which values the family can tend to divide it."

It is not ironic at all, it is more often than not just not logistically possible for people to be part of a group of like minded individuals due to geographic location or the fact that there may not be that many heathens "near" them.

Where I live we are all over the place, some live 10min away, some an hour, some in between, others farther. I know of heathens who travel long distances to meet and blót with other kindreds because the support structure where they live just isn't there so they go where they can.

And the most inportant part of that is that unless they are completely rude and...the real deal maker/breaker...inhospitable, they are welcomed with open arms.

Answer 4

As human beings have already stated, it somewhat is bull. there is not any longer something interior of asatru that could desire to dictate such attitude. i'm afraid your pal had entirely very own, homophobic and racist motives for no longer conversing with you anymore. nicely, what am i able to assert, if she's keen to overlook your friendship over something like that, she by no ability improve right into a genuine pal firstly. tell her to take her racist and homophobe cr*p someplace else and seek for a genuine pal who will settle for you as you're.

Answer 5

Forn just means "old" in Norse. Wiki doesn't have an entry on every word in every language. Forn siðr, for instance, is Old Icelandic for "old customs," meaning the old religion.