(RNS) Followers of the Viking religion, called Asatru, are getting their first temple in 1,000 years in Iceland. But the ancient faith has spread farther than any Viking ever traveled, to ...

And in spring 1972 a few individuals came together in a cafe in Reykjavik to bring it back to life by establishing the Asatru association. Later that year, the group's elected high priest ...

Next year, for the first time in a millennium, a pagan temple will welcome Reykjavik’s faithful. The heathen house of worship, vaguely resembling a misshapen meringue, will be aligned with the ...

The number of followers in Iceland has more than quadrupled in the last 15 years, to 7,000 people ... including the American whites-only hate group Asatru Folk Assembly. The organisation was ...