Heimgest

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Heimgest is the current director of the Odinic Rite.

Contents 1 Leadership 2 Rival Group 3 Music 4 See also 5 Written articles 5.1 Poetry 6 Video appearances 7 External links

[edit] Leadership

In 1989 John Yeowell resigned as Director of the OR's governing body, the Court of Gothar. The Court then unanimously elected Heimgest as its Director and he was officially installed in this position on 23rd April 1989 at the White Horse Stone in Kent. Heimgest remains the Director of the Court to this day. John Yeowell resigned from the Court of Gothar entirely in 1991 and left the Odinic Rite.

[edit] Rival Group

In 1991, an expelled member of the OR, Ingvar Harrison set up a rival Odinic Rite group and sent out letters to the OR membership purporting to be from the Court of Gothar which claimed that Heimgest had asked to be removed from the Court of Gothar and be replaced by Yeowell. These claims were firmly denied in the October 1991 issue of the OR member's journal, OR Briefing. This unofficial OR group, which came to be known as the "Edda" group (due to their PO box being named "Edda" whereas the official OR has always used the PO box "Runic"), continued in existence until 1996 when Yeowell was accepted back into the official OR. Shortly after this Harrison contacted Else Christensen of the Odinist Fellowship seeking permission to set up a UK section of the OF. Christensen declined this request but despite this the group was set up.

[edit] Music

In 1997 the band Sol Invictuss album 'The Blade' featured Heimgest's Odinic Gealdor - a magical chanting of the runes. [1]

In 2000 the album Three Nine by Howden/Wakeford (collaboration between Matt Howden (of Sieben) and Tony Wakeford (of Sol Invictus (band)) featured an album booklet of which text was written by Heimgest and Valkyrie Holley. [2]

[edit] See also

• Odinic Rite
• Circle of Ostara
• Book of Blotar

[edit] Written articles

• Yggdrasil and the Individual part 1
• Yggdrasil and the Individual part 2

• Academic Balance
• Odinism and Magic
• Odinism: Our Faith, Heritage and Identity, part 1, part 2, part 3.
• Perseverence: To Preserve You Need Patience
• Positive Thinking Is The Way
• 'Real' Odinism Is Where True Odinists Be
• Loki Be Bound, part 2, part 3
• Community: A Lesson from our Saxon Ancestors
• Continuing Tradition
• The Subversion of Perception

[edit] Poetry

• The Fire-Whisk

[edit] Video appearances

• Heimgest [3] interviewed by the Odinic Rite

[edit] External links

• Heimgest by the Odinist Library
• Interview With a Gothi. A book by the Institute for Research of Northern Mythology and Identity in which Heimgest gives an in-depth interview about the history and policies of the Odinic Rite.