Quiz for Novices

That IS where it all started..

In the early 1990's Valgard Murray of the Asatru Alliance, and Steve McNallen of the Asatru Folk Assembly read the lore and made a few observations:

1. Strength is better than weakness
2. Courage is better than cowardice
3. Joy is better than guilt
4. Honour is better than dishonour
5. Freedom is better than slavery
6. Kinship is better than alienation
7. Realism is better than dogmatism
8. Vigor is better than lifelessness
9. Ancestry is better than universalism

From these observations we eventually evolved the Nine Noble Virtues.   These weren't given to us by the gods, or in writing...  but rather these are things that we have learned by reading the lore and sometimes reading between the lines.

So basically, what this means is that...

We made them up!