Draft:Asatru (modern religion)
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Asatro (Aesir faith) is a modern term for the religious traditions and customs that were practiced by the inhabitants of Scandinavia from the people's migration and during the Viking Age until the introduction of Christianity. Knowledge of Asatro is mainly based on records from the Christian Middle Ages and its correlation with certain archaeological finds, but which are assumed to reflect an older oral tradition. The Swedish Academy's dictionary defines asatro as "a Nordic religion of nature where polytheism and nature are central elements widespread in North Germanic countries before the introduction of Christianity".[1]