THE ODINIST ISSUE NO. 1 FROM AUGUST,1971. ELSE CHRISTENSEN ODINISM ODIN THOR ASATRU

THE ODINIST, ISSUE #1, AUGUST, 1971. THIS IS A REPRINT OF THE VERY FIRST ISSUE OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE PUBLICATION, THE ODINIST, BY ELSE CHRISTENSEN. MAGAZINE-SIZED SOFTCOVER BOOKLET, 10 PAGES. ORIGINAL ISSUES OF THE ODINIST WERE SIMPLY STANDARD SHEETS OF CHEAP PAPER TYPED UP AND STAPLED IN ONE CORNER, BUT WE HAVE MADE THIS ISSUE INTO A MAGAZINE-SIZED SOFTCOVER BOOKLET,PRINTED ON HEAVY (28LB)ACID FREE PAPER (PAGE 5/6 IS LOOSE WITHIN THE BOOKLET.) NOTHING HAS BEEN ALTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ISSUE ACCEPT FORMAT & BETTER PAPER QUALITY. ELSE CHRISTENSEN HAS BEEN DUBBED 'THE FOLKMOTHER' OF THE ODINIST MOVEMENT, & WAS VERY ACTIVE FROM 1969 UNTIL HER DEATH IN 2005. FURTHER DETAILS BELOW: Christensen was one of the earliest advocates of revitalizing Germanic paganism in the modern age. She was preceded in the 1930s by the Australian Odinist pioneer, Alexander Rud Mills, whose writings she frequently quoted in her journal The Odinist. Her writings greatly influenced many of her contemporaries in groups like the Asatru Folk Assembly, the Asatru Alliance, the Odinic Rite, Comunità Odinista. Christensen is probably best known for her successful lobbying to get Odinism and Asatru recognized by the prison system in the United States, as well as her networking and letter writing campaigns. For several years, Else's photocopied and stapled Odinist newsletter was the only thing linking the scattered Odinist community across North America.Else Christensen had a great importance on the formation of neo-paganism in Spain, in recognition within the Odinist orthodoxy the Spanish Odinist Circle, which became the Comunidad Odinista de España-Asatru, that got official acceptance in 2010, i.e., full recognition and equality with other faiths recognized by the Spanish state, was considered by her followers in Spain as "Mother Folk. " The day of her death is an official day of worship in the Odinist faith in Spain letter by Else Chistensen to Odinist Spanish Circle in 1981