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icymist

(15,888 posts) Sat Dec 26, 2015, 11:05 PM Dec 2015

Wintersolstice feast of the Icelandic Pagan Association was held where the new temple is being built

The Winter solstice is the occasion of one of the four big annual ceremonies of the pagan religion Ásatrú, the other being “Þingblót”, during the tenth week of summer, “fall-blót” in connection to the first day of winter and “Victory-blót” at the first day of summer.

This year’s winter solstice blót was held in the Öskjuhlíð hill recreational area, the small forested hill just south-east of downtown Reykjavík. The planned main temple of the Ásatrú Association will rise in the hill next year. The ceremony took place on 22 December under clear skies, and were led by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of the Ásatrú Association, the Allsherhargoði.

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/winter-solstice-feast-icelandic-pagan-association-was-held-where-new-temple-being-built

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I so wish that I can visit Iceland Tyrs WolfDaemon Dec 2015 #1

Tyrs WolfDaemon

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1. I so wish that I can visit Iceland

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Sun Dec 27, 2015, 11:34 AM

Dec 2015

It's on my 'bucket list' to visit Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

There is just so much to do and experience (other than just the normal seeing the sites and fishing; then there is the geology and Hydrogeology of Iceland that I want to see firsthand).

There is so much to do and so little time and ability to do them.

Thanks for posting this link.

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