Investigating the Afterlife Concepts of the Norse Heathen

Abstract

This paper reviews the modern heathen movement’s commonly accepted
beliefs regarding the heathen concept of Afterlife and compares
them to what is known about the ancient Germanic sense of Afterlife.
The discussion is a continuation of this author’s proposal that the standards
of research among modern heathens be at least consistent with
standards currently acceptable to researchers in other fields of study. As
with previous papers by this author, this document has been subjected to
peer review, and has been adjusted to reflect their comments.

The intent is not to undermine the progress at reconstructionism reported
by various groups of modern heathens but to enhance it since we
have attempted to not only draw directly from heathen sources via the
most current research, but have also suggested methods and techniques
with which one should be able to shift one’s frame of reference from that of
the commonly accepted modern era to that which would have been completely
acceptable to most of the various Germanic peoples living during
the Viking Era.

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