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Chapter 8
The Making of a Seiðman
The foregoing chapters presented the worldview
of the Norseman both from a historical perspective and from an applicability
to modern times perspective. It was heavy in quotes, I realize, but I felt that this
was important since Asatru is a reconstructed religious worldview as opposed to
the more eclectic views taken by New Age religions. For the Asatru folk pouring
through historical texts is almost a religious act in itself comparable to the Catholics
saying of the rosary. But, for the most part, seið is an area of Asatru which is poorly
described in the historical texts. In fact, it is apparent from reading these historical
texts, that seið was poorly understood even at that time.
I feel that the foregoing chapters were absolutely necessary to this chapter. Initially,
when I began to write this book in 1990, I wanted to write about seið and
its effect on me, but every attempt resulted in a miserable failure. The approach,
then, that I decided to take was to present to the reader first and overview of the
worldview of an Asatru man before attempting to write about a topic as nebulous
and seið. In reality, this only makes sense since this is how I was made. For almost
20 years I was an Asatru man, but I had nothing to do with seið, i.e. the worldview
existed long before the events that I’m going to describe now. If the reader has