A Special Message from Dan O'Halloran

The Norman Thiud aet Reik is at once a cultural, religious, and martial organization; dedicated to reviving the folkways of the Norman peoples of Northern Europe. Utilizing history, anthropology, and applied comparative studies disciplines, it is our hope to reconstruct the pre-Christian religion of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European peoples, within a cultural framework and community environment.

The Normannii Thiud takes an orthopraxic approach to the Heathen religious systems of Northern Europe. We are reconstructing social and cultural systems as well as religious and martial institutions, so that our religious weltanschauung (worldview) is more Holistic, and therefore more meaningful. By extension, we believe that this imbues our Trowe (faith) with a higher degree of meaning and significance, as applicable to those that choose to follow in the pathways of their ancestors.

The Norman peoples were a warrior folk, who bore faith, honor, and loyalty as hallmarks of their obligations to self and society. They marshaled the early institutions of Germanic Law and developed the first significant legal systems in the codified era. They are the children of the Danish war-bands that descended on France and expanded across the continent of Europe, to her islands, and throughout Middle Earth. They were warriors, poets, builders, and scholars... they handed down a legacy of pride and accomplishment, a culture worthy of our strongest efforts to revere and revive.

Thus, to lay down thew for the future, as we attempt to re-forge our elder Troth, we must utilize the tools of today. These pages are a starting point for the definition of the Norman rebirth of our Germanic Tribal folkways. It is not intended to be the final word on matters of our thew, nor is it stamped with imprimatur of our tribe. It is simply my presentation of our thew as culled from great Heathen such as Garman Lord Geringas, Eric Lord Wednesbury, and Gert Thygen McQueen, of the Winland Rice of Theodish Belief, and from their Anglo-Seax journey. It is the spirit that we are reforging as it stands today… a scant few years after we set out on our own, and just six years after the well spring of the idea of a Norman Folk was put into action, some 25 years after the refounding of modern Heathenry. Vor Normanitas… Our Normannness. When I left the Rede of the Ring of Troth and embarked on my journey into Theodish Country, I did so with seven years of Asatru history under my belt. As an Elder and Redesman of the Troth, I traversed North America promoting vor Tru, our faith. In the end, it was all worth it, for it led me home and placed me on a path of Heathen Tribalism, Theodisc Gelafe, the beliefs of my tribe.

The Future is before us, set in motion by our deeds, and shaped by the layers of our past. Thew is alive; it surrounds those deeds and guides our lives. We will struggle and face the fires of Ordeal together as one Heathen Folk. We will stand with our shoulder companions who likewise ward the Sacral Kingship of their tribes, all in frith, for Faith, Folk, and Family.

Norman Æðeling
Feng to Dukks Normannii Reiks

Ewemuloc 2003

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