05/05/2026
Today I gave a talk about animism and the old Norse magic practice of Seidr in a local church here in Trondheim.
It is the first time I have talked about my work within a Christian community and space. I was greeted with an engaged audience and a lot of questions about the old ways, what christianity is to a heathern today, and whether it is possible to be connected to both. Many questions that I do not have the answers to, but that I am sure many of you all have answers to.
Afterwards, I went to sit with an old rooted friend in the forest to process.
It is strange to experience how history has changed. Some few hundred years ago I would have been burned or hanged for standing in a church and talking about being a Vølve and Åndemaner with my drum and staff. Singing and playing the drum calling to the land spirits to come forth.
Knowing how my ancestors, and my brothers and sisters from indigenous cultures here in the North and Arctic, have been persecuted and killed for our beliefs and sacred knowledge traditions, I feel so deeply grateful and humble for being able to live in a world where I am free to practice what spirit teaches me. It is not given and many places in the world today it is certainly still not possible.
To me and many other deeply committed practitioners I know, it is with great respect and honour that we carry the traditions our ancestors have kept hidden and sacred, because their lives were taken for it.
May we always remember to honor this when we walk in the footsteps of our ancestral traditions with the Land 🤍
