Hávamál

The Nine Noble Virtues – too short-sighted!

This guest article by Damian Kirchdörfer was originally published in German and reflects mainly the contemporary discourse of the so-called “nine noble virtues” in the German-speaking world. In today’s pagan scene there are many things that are sold to the unsuspecting newcomer as the “Old Way” or “Old Values”, even though they have actually little or nothing to do with the ways of the ancients. A shining example of this are the so-called “Nine Noble Virtues”.