Core tenet of Heathenry (Ásatrú)
Honor is the measure.
Right action is reckoned in courage, hospitality, truthfulness, and troth — the Nine Noble Virtues in some halls, plain decency in others.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Heathen ethics is reputation-based rather than commandment-based: what survives a person is what people say about them, and the Hávamál says so explicitly. Various modern lists (the "Nine Noble Virtues") circulate, and are known within the community to be twentieth-century compositions rather than inherited codes. The core that is genuinely attested is narrower: keep your word, host well, repay both gifts and injuries, and do not be a coward.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The dharma of one's station.
Hinduism · precept
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The Five Precepts.
Buddhism · precept
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Ahimsa at the table.
Jainism · precept
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The commandments are how the covenant is lived.
Judaism
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The Ten Commandments.
Christianity · precept
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Halal — the lawful.
Islam · precept
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