What is the Asatru Publishing Trust?

...under construction, that's what! And it will continue to be, hopefully, for as long as it exists. Seriously, we're just in the process of getting organized, so for the next few weeks you will probably be seeing some broken links and other errata as we get it together.

Our primary thrust is to act as an archive and research library for the rebirth of Asatru. This is not just another 'Lore Site' - with lot's of Eddas, Sagas and linguistics from a thousand years ago. We have some of those, sure, and we have links to most of the other places on the web where they can be found.

We're about preserving and making available our 'modern' lore - that is, material written or developed by Asatrurar in the past hundred years or so. This is the material that is most in danger of being lost, due primarily to the crazy quilt (and getting crazier every day, it seems) pattern of copyright laws and regulations. This is our lore - the material we will leave on Midgard for our descendents.

We ask Asatru authors, artists, musicians and leaders to make available material that they create, by placing it it the Common Domain, the public domain or by using another Open Content license. This allows us to gather their material into an archive, both electronic and physical. We will eventually have an actual research library operating in Central Indiana, and will make the material available over the World Wide Web, to the extent that that is possible.

How to Use this Site

We've tried to make the site as easy to use as possible: most of the options on menus are pretty much self-explanatory, and there's online help available where we think things might get confusing.

To use some of the files on this site, you may need certain other programs. For example, to play an MP3 sound file, you'll need an MP3 sound file player. We don't offer any downloads from here of that type of thing. But we do have some links available. One thing you will find very useful is the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Remember that to download a file, rather than merely view it, you'll need to follow the instructions for your particular browser. Most of the time, this means right clicking on the file name, and then selecting a location on your computer to store it.

Most of the material on this site is open content of one form or another - you can use it, link to it, copy it, even publish it on paper or electronic media. If it's in the public domain, that's all there is to it. If it's under an Open Content License you must follow the instructions in that license. If it's in the Common Domain, however, you must give proper attribution, and reproduce the Common Domain Document License in the reprinted or republished material. We make available our tools to help you do this - our goal is the widest possible distribution of the lore we are creating, while at the same time preserving our contributors copyrights and insuring that this material is not misused.

We do have a few articles which are under a classic "restricted" copyright - these items are linked from here and are always clearly marked. They may not be used except with the express written permission of the copyright holder, which we have obtained for these select items. Obviously we prefer to archive and preserve Common Domain and public domain items, but in some cases we feel that the articles are of enough inportance to warrant this kind of treatment. We cannot guarntee that we will accept any restricted items: such judgements are at the sole discretion of our editorial board.

What's New?

We've added many new documents over the past several weeks since going "live", and can only urge you to check out our collections page.

As I'm sure you're aware, a terrible terrorist attack on the United States took place on September 11, 2001. The graphic below has been beautifully done and generously donated to the entire community by Alfta Reginleif of MSR.

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