Faith · 2023-09-19
Reconstruction Without Apology
Fragments are not trash. They are also not whole buildings. That is the first discipline of reconstruction: refuse both contempt and fantasy. The surviving pieces of Germanic Heathen religion are uneven, damaged, regional, late in places, Christian-filtered in places, archaeological in some places, poetic in others, legal, linguistic, folkloric, comparative, stubborn, and incomplete. [more]