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Default Heathen vs. foreign afterlife perceptions (was: Unity)

Nik wrote in
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:08:09 -0500, "Ingeborg S. Nordén"
wrote:


"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
.com...

There's a lot of discussion of going to be with one particular
diety, so a lot of folks do have such a goal in mind. I've always
thought that was an idea imported from other faiths.


Well, the Lay of Harbard does mention thralls going to be with Thor;
and Egil Skallagrimsson's daughter said she hoped to be with Freyja
after starving herself to death. So the idea of living with a deity
after death isn't *completely* incompatible with Asatru; it's just
that this isn't the ultimate goal of the religion,


I have to disagree with you there Ingeborg.

nor one that all its followers want or expect.


Maybe not but I certainly live in hope.



Please keep this crap out of alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk