Asatru Bibliography

      Guido von List is a foundational figure in modern Asatru. As a child, he simply developed an obsession with pre-Christian religious sites in Austria. These were initially Roman-pagan, but he quickly learned that there were people in Austria before the Roman empire, and they were called Teutons and indeed had a religious and cultural history. He studied Tacitus and the other classical writers, and in a flash of inspiration decided that instead of simply studying the ancient Germanic gods, he would worship them as if the Christian millennium had not intervened. List was not however created in a vacuum; there were many proto-archaeologists working diligently throughout Europe at this time, completely overthrowing Christian dogma in the field of history and science. Von List is important to us as being a conduit between the researchers of the late 18th and early 19th century and the modern resurgence of our ancient religion today.      One book ...

  First chapter. Erchantaug and Gisalhild. In the rosy fragrance of the morning, the Danube rolled its roaring flood of foam through the wooded floodplain, out of whose thicket of trees the boldly jagged cliff head of the Maidenberg towered tall and silent. It seemed to look down contemptuously on the dwarfish, defiant tower of the Roman city of Carnuntum; large and silent like the thought of a spiritual giant above the noise of the everyday world. High-stemmed, broad-branched elms and knotty alder thickets formed the centuries-old floodplain forest along the banks, as on the islands of the many-armed stream: densely intergrown tree crowns were inextricably interwoven through the network of climbing plants. Wild hops, tangled clematis tendrils entangled the branches of the forest giants, from whose leaf clouds colorful flower umbels of the climbing plants nodded down. Like slender pillars, shafts of vines rose up from the swampy ground, which incubated withered undergrowth and ramp...

  To begin Dear reader! It is a peculiar thing about the preface; it is often written not to be read at all by most. But now I have such an excellent opinion of you, best of all readers, that I trust you will read this preface of mine at the very least after the twenty-second chapter. Thereupon be it ventured. My book was like the seed of the vine: it takes a long time until it comes to drinking wine. It was more than twenty years ago. There I first saw those mysterious labyrinths inside the earth, there I first saw those strangely shaped hills. I felt indeterminable, unclear at the sight of them. But I felt powerfully attracted to them, I drew, painted, collected. Later came the realization. Many a learned researcher has since sewn himself to those enigmatic buildings and, with more or less luck, tried to interpret them. Already Friedrich Panzer mentions them in words and pictures in his solid "Contributions to German Mythology", Munich 1848-1855. He was, concerning the inte...

  German Sports Badge for Men Current Hardest Requirements and Descriptions This page will detail the hardest possible requirements, so if you pass these, you can pass any age group. At the bottom, I give the easiest, one-day measurement program in English. Men Endurance:  3K run : Bronze: 17:20, Silver: 15:20, Gold: 13:20. 10K run : Bronze: 62:30, Silver: 56:30, Gold: 50:00. 7.5K Walking : Bronze: 57:00, Silver 53:00, Gold 49:00 800M Swim:  Bronze: 22:10, Silver: 19:30, Gold 16:25 20 km Cycling : Bronze: 46:30, Silver: 42:00, Gold: 37:30  Notes: 3K in 13:20 is quite fast - 4:27 per K, or 7:10 mile pace; 10K Pace per mile is 8:03 ; in America I would change the 3K run to a 2 mile run in the equivalent time of  14:20) Men Strength: Medicine Ball (2kg) Throw: Bronze: 10.5m (34'5"), Silver: 11.25m (36'11"), Gold: 12.00m (39'4") Shot Put (7.26kg/16lbs.): Bronze: 7.75m (25'5"), Silver 8.50m (27'11"), Gold: 9.00m (29'6") Stonetossing (15k...

 German Sports Badge for Women Current Hardest Requirements and Descriptions This page will detail the hardest possible requirements, so if you pass these, you can pass any age group. At the bottom, I give the easiest, one-day measurement program in English. Women Endurance:  3K run : Bronze: 20:20, Silver: 18:20, Gold: 16:20. 10K run : Bronze: 84:40, Silver: 78:40, Gold: 72:40. 7.5K Walking : Bronze: 66:30, Silver 63:00, Gold 59:30 800M Swim: Bronze: 24:00, Silver: 21:10, Gold 18:25 20 km Cycling : Bronze: 57:30, Silver: 52:00, Gold: 46:30  Notes: 10K Pace per mile is 13:38, 12:40, 11:42; in America I would change the 3K run to a 2 mile run in the equivalent times of 21:48/19:40/17:30) Women Strength: Medicine Ball (2kg) Throw: Bronze: 7.5m, Silver: 8.0m, Gold: 8.75m Shot Put (4kg): Bronze: 6.5m, Silver 7.0m, Gold: 7.50m Stonetossing (5kg): Bronze: 10.80m, Silver: 11.40m, Gold: 12.00m Standing Long Jump: Bronze: 1.65m, Silver: 1.85m, Gold 2.05m Gymnastics: (too difficul...

 Page 1: The Berlin Pronouncement On December 3 in the evening Wilhelm Teudt spoke in the Technical University in Berlin about the importance of the Externsteine. Afterwards, Prof. Dr. Andree-Münster, as excavation director, gave a report on this year's investigation work at the Externsteine. The following morning, a meeting between the representatives of prehistoric science and the friends of Germanic prehistory, the so-called Teudt Circle, took place in the meeting room of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft. Professor Reinerth as convener presented for discussion: The methodology of Teudt; The question of the Externsteine; The 1934 volume of the journal "Germanien" with regard to his scientific and methodological publications. Regarding his working method, Teudt had already expressed himself the evening before in the introduction of his lecture as follows: The well-known idea of a presuppositionless, i.e. prejudice-free, science is quite justified....