A shine for the public worship of Thor, Odin and Frigg is being built in Iceland.
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“I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,” said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ásatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.
“We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”
Membership in Ásatrúarfélagið has tripled in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members last year, out of a total population of 330,000, data from Statistics Iceland showed.
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People probably find about the same amount of meaning as they do from competing myths. Their site shows they show movies and have coffee, pastries and popcorn.
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