Asatru Folk Assembly - Origin of the AFA Trihorns #afa #asatru #ásatrú #Asatrufolksssembly

00:00:00.000 question what does the afa symbol represent it is it a triskelion variant

00:00:09.200 i suppose thematically it is it actually has a very specific um

00:00:19.600 very specific origin and it was chosen uh

00:00:23.600 It was chosen because it represents the three horns of Odinic inspiration, Son, Bothan, and Odrurir.

00:00:35.540 And it's taken from a Danish rune stone, the Snoldelev stone.

00:00:44.340 And if you see there, we got some visuals for you.

00:00:47.960 it's hard to see anybody looking at rune stones or rock carvings they weren't originally stained

00:00:54.840 in there with red the red is an attempt to highlight the carvings because they're very

00:01:00.200 hard to see they're very old and uh worn away and if you're watching this you may have to zoom in

00:01:07.160 and look to see the symbol but that's the symbol that the afa's trihorns was based on

00:01:12.200 um it recurs in a couple of different forms in a couple of different rune stones but this

00:01:20.840 particular one is the one that gave uh inspiration to the afa symbol and it was neat in uh 2013 i

00:01:29.720 think um our founder steve mcdalen and myself along with some other afa members

00:01:37.400 went to Denmark and we actually got to go and see that stone um for for the first time

00:01:45.940 and we went to there's a replica of the stone where it was originally found it's currently

00:01:51.200 housed in the National Museum in Copenhagen but we went to the site of the of the original stone

00:01:57.820 and they have a stone that they erected there as kind of a I don't know a stand-in for it but we

00:02:05.280 we buried one of the afa's pens in that site as kind of a a homecoming or a touching back

00:02:13.280 that foundational point with our our modern symbols so yeah that is the meaning of of our

00:02:20.240 symbol it's it implies that motion it's next to other solar symbols on that same stone

00:02:29.040 and that is where it comes from and thank you very much for your

Asatru Folk Assembly - October 04, 2026