Asatru Folk Assembly - September 04, 2025


Ásatrú and Poetry #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Topics
poetry and storytelling
Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Sveinbjörn Bientensen
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

161.21

Word count

330

Sentence count

20


Summary

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Poetry and dramatic storytelling are such an essential part of our ancestors' practice, and I think it would be cool to see some of that reemerge within our culture. I think we still have that in society and song, and we have a religious song, just not necessarily Avernus related.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Poetry and storytelling are such an essential element of our ancestors' also true practice.
00:00:07.980 And I think they're practice of a lot of things.
00:00:10.100 And it's something that has largely gone by the wayside today.
00:00:14.120 We're used to reading for utility or speed reading.
00:00:17.360 We don't have a lot of poetic expression that's not explicitly musical.
00:00:23.360 I think we still have that in society and song.
00:00:25.900 And we have that in religious song, just not necessarily Ausitru related.
00:00:31.160 But the idea of poetry and dramatic storytelling is thousands of years was fundamental to our ancestors and would be cool to start seeing some of that reemerge within our culture.
00:00:48.020 And it's one of those things that I would love to see some of that, but I can't just will that to happen.
00:00:52.960 That's not my particular skill set, but it's neat.
00:00:55.240 if some of that were to develop.
00:00:57.240 What it is kind of interesting on,
00:00:59.080 and I'd encourage everybody to listen if they have a chance,
00:01:02.420 Sveinbjorn Bientensson,
00:01:04.100 the founder of the Austertur-Feleget in Iceland.
00:01:08.580 I hope I pronounced that correctly.
00:01:11.660 He was very into that.
00:01:13.540 That was a big part of his participation
00:01:16.440 and approach to Austertur
00:01:18.020 was through dramatic storytelling,
00:01:21.200 classical Icelandic poetry,
00:01:22.980 and Reamer, which I joked with Svon about earlier.
00:01:26.020 There are recordings of his doing different pieces,
00:01:29.760 different pieces of our lore in Reamer.
00:01:32.020 And I would encourage all you guys out there
00:01:34.160 to give that a listen.
00:01:35.560 It's really cool if you can follow along
00:01:38.380 with the actual bits of the Etta that he's doing,
00:01:41.380 which you can on this website
00:01:43.100 that we're currently looking on
00:01:44.380 if you go to the right poetry on it.
00:01:46.000 I think that's really informative,
00:01:47.520 but just having it on and listening
00:01:48.840 to the sound of the words and the cadence
00:01:51.160 And hearing the voice of one of our exalted holy heroes, I think is beneficial too.
00:01:58.960 So I would encourage folks to consume that if you can.