News Items

• 05/21/08 - Alex became a kindred member today. Hail the oath taker! (photos)

• 05/20/08 - Talon and Felecia renewed their wedding vows. (photos)

• 08/18/06 - Steve, Ted, and Bernhard spent a week in Key Largo scuba diving. (photo)

• 07/14/06 - Make and Jada visited Finland recently. Here are some photos.

• 07/08/06 - Herbert and Suzanne spent their vacation in Norway and Denmark. View the photos.

• 05/05/06 - Bernhard announces the birth of his first grandchild - Alexis Michelle. Welcome to Midgard!

• 11/22/05 - Make and Jada officially adopted Matthew today. Hail the new family! (photo)

• 10/23/05 - Suzanne became a kindred member today. Hail the oath taker!

• 10/09/05 - Ted joined the scuba movement today, completing his PADI certification. Beth jumped back in the water too after a 15-year break. She is a NAUI advanced diver. (photo)

• 08/12/05 - Cliff and Elise announce the arrival of Clifford Wulf Arthur Raeder. Welcome to Midgard little Wulf!

• 08/07/05 - Herbert and Bernhard completed their NAUI open water certification. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water! Here they are shown with NAUI master diver Steve. (photo)

• 06/01/05 - Felecia announces that she has been promoted to Major. This is quite an accomplishment and bodes well for the future. Congratulations Felecia!

• 02/20/05 - Cliff presented the kindred with his Book of Blots to help the kindred when he can't officiate as Goði. A lot of work went into this. Hail the scribe!

• 01/23/05 - Beth joined the kindred today by taking her first oath. Welcome home!

• 11/14/04 - Jada took her first oath and Ed became a full kindred member today. Hail!

• 10/17/04 - Ted took his final oath to the kindred today. Hail kinsman!

• 07/18/04 - Herbert took his elder oath today. Hail Herbert!

• 06/13/04 - Carl attended his last blot with the kindred before moving back to California. We'll miss him.

• 12/21/03 - Steve and Johnny took oaths of blood brotherhood today. Hail the oath takers!

• 11/01/03 - Felecia recently won the Federal Nursing Essay Award for 2003. All branches of the service and the VA submitted entries so this is quite prestigious. Hail the scribe!

• 07/24/03 - Herbert recently returned from a vacation that included stops in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Check out his photo gallery.

• 07/20/03 - Thruðheim Kindred announces the marriage of Make and Jada. The couple was married on Sunday (July 20, 2003) at Norris Dam State Park in a traditional Asatru ceremony. Congratulations to the happy couple! View some photos.

• 06/01/03 - Cliff has been named Troth Steward for Tennessee. He is well-suited to represent Asatru in our state.

• 05/04/03 - Felecia graduated with a master's degree from UT Chattanooga (It's officially an M.S.N. in Nursing: Education). Not only did she successfully attain her master's degree, she graduated Summa Cum Laude! Congratulations to Felecia!

• 10/11/02 - Cliff and Elise announced the birth of their second child - a girl. Hail to Rowan!

• 08/24/02 - Steve and Joe represented Thrudheim at the CIAK Moot in Alabama. View the photos.

• 05/11/02 - Laurel announced that she has been elected to the High Rede of the the Troth organization. Congratualtions Laurel!

• 09/23/01 - Tracy and Steve exchanged wedding vows today at Frozen Head State Park where they had met three years ago during a kindred blot. Goði Cliff presided. View the photos.

• 08/25/01 - Steve and Make attended the CIAK Moot in Alabama. Steve managed to make off with some loot again. View the photos.

• 08/24/01 - Bernhard attended the East Coast Thing at Camp Middlesex in Ashby, MA. He presented a workshop with Dirk Mahling on Old Saxon Heathenry. View the photos.

• 06/01/01 - Thruðheim Kindred was well represented at Trothmoot 2001 in southern Indiana. Attending were Bernhard, Beth, Laurel, and Steve along with friends Ted and Beth. View the photos.

• 02/16/01 - Bernhard visited several heathen sites in Westfalen, Germany recently. View the photos.

• 08/26/00 - Steve and Make represented Thruðheim at the CIAK gathering in southern Alabama.

• 06/03/00 - Several members of Thruðheim Kindred attended Trothmoot 2000 in southern Indiana. In attendance were Bernhard, Brian, Cliff, and Make. View the photos.

• 04/29/00 - Tracy and Steve announced their betrothal today. Wedding plans are still in the making. Congratulations to the couple!

• 02/19/00 - Some of the kindred participated in the second KAPOW cleanup of Central Avenue in Knoxville.

• 11/22/99 - Cliff and Elise announced the birth of their daughter Summer today. Mother and daughter are doing fine. Welcome to Midgard Summer!

• 10/16/99 - Cliff received his Goði credentials from the American Vinland Association. He is now officially a Minister of the Northern Tradition. Congratulations Cliff! See the certificate.

• 10/02/99 - Members from Thruðheim Kindred participated in the KAPOW Adopt a Highway cleanup effort. A two-mile section of Central Avenue between Callahan and Emory was the location. Over a dozen volunteers spent three hours collecting trash.

• 09/25/99 - Asatruar from Gulinkar Goðorð (Nashville) and Thruðheim Kindred agreed in principle to form a Tennessee Asatru Council. Details will be worked out in the months to come.

• 09/19/99 - Several of the kindred attended an inter-faith event sponsored by KAPOW called Tradition Sharing. Cliff spoke to the group about Asatru. The event was held at Tyson Park in Knoxville.

• 09/01/99 - Bernhard gave a short lecture about Asatru to the UT alternative religions special interest group called Eclypse.

• 06/18/99 - As part of the effort to reach out to the rest of the pagan community, Bernhard attended a KAPOW business meeting. KAPOW stands for Knoxville Area Pagans and Wiccans and is a nonsectarian organization which exists to support the pagan community. Several of those attending expressed an interest in learning more about Asatru and the kindred.

• 11/15/98 - Elise and Cliff attended the Nashville Spiritual Community's service on Sunday, November 15, 1998, led by their pastor, Lesley Hall. You might remember Lesley from the Seiðh session on Winter Nights. She had asked Cliff to come to her center, which has Unitarian Universalist connections, and deliver a talk on Asatru. Cliff spoke for a half hour to a group of about 20 Nashvillians and their children. All in all, it went well - a meeting of two cultures striving to learn more from one another and live together peacefully.