Stories
the narratives it tells itself
Odin on the tree.
Nine nights wounded and hanging on the windswept tree, himself sacrificed to himself, until he saw the runes and seized them screaming. Whoever wants what the depths hold must hang for it.
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The Eddas.
The old myths survive because a Christian Icelander wrote them down two centuries after conversion — Heathenry rebuilds from sources it knows are secondhand, and says so.
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