The Ragnarök. “Final Fate of the Gods.” Often this invokes imagery of a fiery and war-torn end of Miðgarð, and indeed of all the worlds. Loki, somehow freed from bondage, leads an Army of the Dead against Ásgarð. The gods Óðinn and Þórr meet tragic ends at the jaws and venom of Fenrir and Jörmungandr respectively. Súrtr descends from Múspellsheimr, burning all in his path. Yggdrasil shudders as it burns, and everything ends in fire. The recounting of this myth is told often,

Among the various practices and tool of Heathenry, the one that stands out as most identifying are the runes. There are five historical sets relative to Germanic peoples (a sixth, including the Celtic Ogham), but only three are used with any regularity among modern Heathens: the Elder Fuþark (Proto-Germanic, 200-800 CE), the Younger Fuþark (Old Norse, 800-1200 CE,) and the Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc (Old English, 500-1100 CE). It should be noted that, though divination practices emer