Dictionary

Asatru en · PROPN

Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic Ásatrú.

Meanings

1. A neopagan religion, reconstructed from old Norse religion, which honors the Æsir and other Norse gods and spirits.
   • Many people have not heard of Asatru or Heathenry...or they have a mistaken or distorted view of what it is. By offering classes and workshops on Asatru 101, the Gods, the Ancestors, the Vaettir, and the Runes...you can educate people about Asatru and raise interest in Asatru in your area. 2009, Mark Ludwig Stinson, Heathen Gods, page 51:
   • 2004, Gundula E. Rommel, Asgard in America: Inventing European Ethnic Identity in a Post-industrial Pluralist Culture, Thesis (M.A.), page 8, Presenting themselves as deeply religious and, at the same time, open to scientific testing methods that would physically damage the revered bones, the Asatru claimants occupied an interesting middle ground between the opposing sides.
   • Lenz felt Parker was "disrespecting the gods" and "saying that he was teaching Asatru but what he was teaching was not Asatru." 2008, Michelangelo Delfino, Mary E. Day, Death Penalty USA: 2005 - 2006, page 296:

Forms

Deriveds

Wiccatru · Nazitru · Asatruar · Brosatru · Asatruan · Asatruism

Relateds

hof · Theodism · Vanatru · Odinism · Lokean · Forn Sed · godi · Rokkatru

Translations (15)

sv asatro (neopagan religion) · nb åsatro (neopagan religion) · id Asatru (neopagan religion) · fi aasainusko (neopagan religion) · nb åsatru (neopagan religion) · da asatro (neopagan religion) · cmn 日耳曼新異教 /日耳曼新异教 (neopagan religion) · pt Asatru (neopagan religion) · pl asatru (neopagan religion) · nn åsatru (neopagan religion) · da asetro (neopagan religion) · es asatru (neopagan religion) · ro asatru (neopagan religion) · mr आसात्रू (neopagan religion) · is Ásatrú (neopagan religion)