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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:46 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:53 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:24 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:26 am
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Living Asatru -by- Greg (Dux) Shetler This (extremely short, with introduction and bibliography, the book is only 88 pages.) book is like a snapshot into some of the main points of the faith. It won't give one any belief altering information, but it would make a good book to hand to someone who is interested in what one believes. Even if some of the details are not exactly what one believes/practices, it still gives a better indication of the faith than other books.
A Practical Guide to the Runes -by- Lisa Peschel Don't even think about this book. The first indication of how off this book is would be the inclusion of the "wyrd' rune. It also gives ways in which to 'spread' the runes so as to read them like tarot cards. This book is a Llewellyn publication.
The Nature of Asatru -by- Mark Puryear This book is nothing but thinly veiled racism. Avoid it.
Jakob Grimm's Teutonic Mythology This book is a good resource for non-beginners, but does have it's faults. In the time Grimm was writing, it was thought that the world was only a few thousand years old and the notion of Divine Rights of Kings was still practised. In an attempt to prove some points, Grimm takes to comparative religion in some spots and makes some connections that left me chanting "cr*p, cr*p, cr*p" while reading it. There are a few spots where he cites something as being in the Teutonic faith because there is something similar in Slavic, Roman, Greek, and even Biblical traditions. This work should be taken with a grain of salt, and a bit of caution.
Eddas, Poetic and Prose These (well, the Poetic at the very least) should be the very first book one ever reads if going towards a Teutonic/Nordic/Germanic path. There are different translations, but the general gist is the same. The translation of the Poetic I have is Bellows and for the Prose I have the Brodeur translation. One should take a little caution with the Prose Edda. Snorri Sturluson is believed to have changed details so that it fit his own ideas.
Other books that I have queued: Myths and Symbls in Pagan Europe by Ellis Davidson, The Danish History -by- Saxo Grammaticus (I think it's the Elton translation), The Agricola and The Germania -by- Cornelius Tacitus (not sure of the translator, the intro is by Edward Brooks Jr though), and finally Essential Asatru -by- Paxson (nope, haven't read this one yet redface ) if anyone else has reviews of these, please post! Also, if you have other books to recommend, tell me!
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