The Nine Noble Virtues - Asatru

[Bishka]

So what are they?

I've never heard of them before, and I was interested in them.

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[Smoke]

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As you wish.

 

[Bishka]

Thanks...I couldn't find the darn forum! Thanks!

 

[Zephyr]

The Nine Noble Virtues are a set of guidelines for Asatruar taken from the Havamal and codified by the Odinic Rite, a major heathen organization.

The virtues are:

1. Courage
2. Truth
3. Honour
4. Fidelity
5. Discipline
6. Hospitality
7. Self Reliance
8. Industriousness
9. Perseverance

Also around the same time they brought out the Nine Charges.

The charges are:

1. To maintain candour and fidelity in love and devotion to the tried friend: though he strike me I will do him no scathe.
2. Never to make wrongsome oath: for great and grim is the reward for the breaking of plighted troth.
3. To deal not hardly with the humble and the lowly.
4. To remember the respect that is due to great age.
5. To suffer no evil to go unremedied and to fight against the enemies of Faith, Folk and Family: my foes I will fight in the field, nor will I stay to be burnt in my house.
6. To succour the friendless but to put no faith in the pledged word of a stranger people.
7. If I hear the fool's word of a drunken man I will strive not: for many a grief and the very death groweth from out such things.
8. To give kind heed to dead men: straw dead, sea dead or sword dead.
9. To abide by the enactments of lawful authority and to bear with courage the decrees of the Norns.

Hope that helps.

 

[Radio Frequency X]

Pretty much the right way to live.

 

[Zephyr]

Pretty much the right way to live.

Maybe I should have taken the simple answer after all...

 

[Bishka]

That helped thanks!

 

[KSojourner]

For a more in-depth look at the Nine Noble Virtues, go on over to the blog Expanding Inward, as the recent posts have detailed each of these virtues. Well, a few of them are not written about yet, but I'm sure they will be!