It's fun to take a DNA test and find out you're very distantly related to Famous Swede #32. What isn't okay, however, is the way that DNA has been weaponized in some pagan circles-- namely with people being told that they cannot follow the gods without 'viking' blood. So how important to heathenry is your pedigree?
Trigger Warning: Loss of a Family Member It is a brisk, frosty morning here in my part of the world. As I sit here, sipping my coffee, the patterns of the very thin ice still clinging to the world catch my eye as they spin the light from the most welcome appearance of the sun […]