The God of Thunder is making a triumphant return to Iceland. After 1,000 years without a temple of worship to the Norse gods, Iceland is resurrecting its pagan roots. A collective of followers called ...

On a hill surrounded by woods, just north of the Raven’s Cliffs and west of the Rock of the Hanging One, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson is building a temple. Hilmarsson, 65, has been high priest of Iceland’s ...

Next year, for the first time in a millennium, a pagan temple will welcome Reykjavik’s faithful. The heathen house of worship, vaguely resembling a misshapen meringue, will be aligned with the sun’s ...

People of any religion are able to take part in Asatru ceremonies It has been the dream of Iceland´s neo-pagan worshippers for four decades. Now construction of the first heathen temple or "hof" to be ...

The Asatru movement's new temple is due to open in summer 2016 ByNews from Elsewhere... ... media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring Iceland's ...

As white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, the high priest of a pagan religion looked on with horror from Reykjavik, Iceland. It wasn’t just their racist message that bothered him. It was ...

MURDOCK — Citing concerns for safety and voicing their rejection of the Asatru Folk Assembly’s practice to exclude those not of northern European descent, residents of Murdock pleaded with City ...

Inside the Augusta Correctional Center one evening nearly 16 years ago, inmate Brent H. Parker was stabbed 68 times by two fellow Asatru worshipers at the foot of a makeshift altar. In 2001 interviews ...

MURDOCK — City Council members in Murdock at their meeting Wednesday approved a conditional use permit and conditions for it, allowing the Asatru Folk Assembly to use the building it purchased as a ...

When Jody Hadley arrived at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in 2003 on a kidnapping charge, he wasn’t an especially nice guy. But the man who'd once held an elderly Worthing couple hostage and ...

It has been the dream of Iceland´s neo-pagan worshippers for four decades. Now construction of the first heathen temple or "hof" to be built in a Nordic country in almost 1,000 years is set to get ...