Investigating the Afterlife Concepts of the Norse Heathen
A Reconstructionist’s Approach
Bil Linzie, 2005
Contents:
1 The Current State of the Germanic Afterlife
1.1 Dying into the Halls of One’s Patron
1.2 Reincarnation and the Modern heathen
2 Historical Views
2.1 Difficulties Researching the Past
2.2 The Heathen view of ’Soul’
2.3 The Heathen Concept of ’Patron-Gods’
2.4 The Heathen Concept Death into the Gravemound
2.5 Other Heathen Afterlife Concepts
2.6 The Heathen View of Reincarnation
2.7 Summary of the Germanic Afterlife
3 The Gravemound and the Modern Heathen
3.1 The Worldview Problem
3.2 Christianity’s Early Role, Christianity’s Gift
3.3 Where the Modern Kicks In
4 Experimental Reconstruction
4.1 Matrices
4.2 A Reconstructionist’s Personal Experiments: Question Everything
