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It's almost as if the Icelandic Tourism board turned to the Ásatrúarfélagið for help bringing tourism back. 'Guðmundur, everyone's dreaming of flying towards th

by nanna 6y ago

It's almost as if the Icelandic Tourism board turned to the Ásatrúarfélagið for help bringing tourism back. 'Guðmundur, everyone's dreaming of flying towards the equator when they're allowed, not towards us in the Artic circle. What can we do?' 'WE SHALL SUMMON SURTR'!

runarberg 6y ago
There was a huge debate some time ago about Christianity vs. Ásatrú on Alþingi (the Icelandic general assembly). During this debate news broke that an eruption had started in Svínahraun—a few dozen km east of the current Geldingadalur eruption. Allegedly some proponents of Ásatrú suggested that the eruption was the fault of the gods not liking the fact that this debate was happening. However this argument was quickly dismissed as the debate was already happening on top of an ancient lava field and the debaters couldn’t fathom what must have angered the gods that caused it to erupt in the ancient times. See Kristni Saga (chapter 11)
- nanna 6y ago
  When the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built the Ásatrú would visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun (Iceland's power company) would send priests down to sprinkle holy water over it, to which the Ásatrú responded by cursing it, and the priests again sent in... this went on round and round. The Ásatrú were broadly against the project. Arguably this had some effect. When a prominent anti-dam farmer from near Egilsstaðir was excavating his land to build an extension to his house, strange things kept on happening: His cows treading on their udders, workers falling into the pit and breaking bones. His wife claimed to see two figures when each time one of these happenings occured. An old man and a young. Finally in the pit they came across the central beam of an ancient house, and a magnificent circle made of a spherical stone made of spheres containing crystals - you found individual spheres - I know this is the wrong term sorry - scattered around their farmland. Anyway upon finding these the farmer called to the ghosts and promised that the stone would be taken to the museum in Egilsstaðir and the beam would be featured prominantly in their new farmhouse, in exchange for the ghosts leaving them in peace and haunting Kárahnjúkar instead. It was then in the process of its initial flood. Soon after very strange things occured at Kárahnjúkar. Workers were injured, serious technical problems manifested. If there's anywhere in the world where making pacts with supernatural forces is possible, it's Iceland.

by nanna 6y ago

runarberg 6y ago

There was a huge debate some time ago about Christianity vs. Ásatrú on Alþingi (the Icelandic general assembly). During this debate news broke that an eruption had started in Svínahraun—a few dozen km east of the current Geldingadalur eruption. Allegedly some proponents of Ásatrú suggested that the eruption was the fault of the gods not liking the fact that this debate was happening. However this argument was quickly dismissed as the debate was already happening on top of an ancient lava field and the debaters couldn’t fathom what must have angered the gods that caused it to erupt in the ancient times. See Kristni Saga (chapter 11)

nanna 6y ago
When the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built the Ásatrú would visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun (Iceland's power company) would send priests down to sprinkle holy water over it, to which the Ásatrú responded by cursing it, and the priests again sent in... this went on round and round. The Ásatrú were broadly against the project. Arguably this had some effect. When a prominent anti-dam farmer from near Egilsstaðir was excavating his land to build an extension to his house, strange things kept on happening: His cows treading on their udders, workers falling into the pit and breaking bones. His wife claimed to see two figures when each time one of these happenings occured. An old man and a young. Finally in the pit they came across the central beam of an ancient house, and a magnificent circle made of a spherical stone made of spheres containing crystals - you found individual spheres - I know this is the wrong term sorry - scattered around their farmland. Anyway upon finding these the farmer called to the ghosts and promised that the stone would be taken to the museum in Egilsstaðir and the beam would be featured prominantly in their new farmhouse, in exchange for the ghosts leaving them in peace and haunting Kárahnjúkar instead. It was then in the process of its initial flood. Soon after very strange things occured at Kárahnjúkar. Workers were injured, serious technical problems manifested. If there's anywhere in the world where making pacts with supernatural forces is possible, it's Iceland.