Detailed Table of Contents for Oaths, Shild, Frith, Luck & Wyrd: Five Essays Exploring Heathen Ethical Concepts and their Use Today.
1. Introduction
Oaths
Shild
Frith
Luck and Wyrd
2. Oaths: What They Mean and Why They Matter
Kinds of Oaths and Boasts
Oaths, Wyrd, and Luck
Oaths and the Heathen Soul
Oaths and the Community
Between the Fire and the Ice
3. The Practice of Oathing
First Steps in Oathing Practice
Breaking bad habits or addictions
Long-term and open-ended oaths
Oaths of Relationship
Marriage / domestic partnership oaths
Unspoken kinship commitments
Adoption and fostering
Friendship and blood-siblinghood
Working partnerships
Oaths of Office or Duty
Oaths of Self-Commitment
Wording your Oaths
Oathing Precautions
Breaking an Oath
4. Threads of Wyrd and Shild: A Ninefold Rite of Life-Renewal
The Symbolism of the Ninefold Rite
Shild and the Actions of the Norns
‘Turning’
Step One: Forming your Intent
Step Two: Paying your Shild
Examining your shild
Going deeper
Restitution
The Shild-Rite
Step Three: Weaving Anew
5. Heathen Frith and Modern Ideals
Frith and Kinship
The Bond Between Leaders and Folk
Frith Between Folk and the Holy Ones
The Role of Frith in Religious Conversion
From Elder Days to Today
Frith-Pitfall 1: Group Dynamics
Frith-Pitfall 2: The Tolerance Dilemma
‘Distinctions’ versus ‘Triggers’
Heathen Frith Today
Friendship Verses
6. Webs of Luck and Wyrd: Interplays and Impacts on Events
The Nature and Role of Luck
Downsides of Luck
The Roots of Luck and Unluck
Givers and Mediators of Luck
A word about the Fylgja
Deities and Luck
Luck and Wyrd
Wyrd, Luck and ‘Karma’
Luck, Wyrd, and Olaf Tryggvason
Luck and the Ordeal
Belief in Luck Led to Forcible Conversion
Luck, Ethics, and Troth with the Gods
Luck, Rede, and Wisdom
Conclusion
7. Weaving It All Together
Distillation
Commitment and the fulfillment of commitments
Clear sight and resolve
Wisdom and good rede
In Closing
Afterword: Ethics, Ideals, and Vilhelm Grønbech
Word-Hoard / Glossary
Book-Hoard / Bibliography
About the Author
A Word about Wordfruma Press