{"product_id":"walking-among-the-dead-death-ancestry-and-the-afterlife-in-the-heathen-worldview-9798248058051","title":"Walking Among the Dead: Death, Ancestry, and the Afterlife in the Heathen Worldview","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fjordfolk Kindred\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalking Among the Dead: Death, Ancestry, and the Afterlife in the Heathen Worldview\u003c\/b\u003e is a grounded, historically informed exploration of how pre-Christian Germanic peoples understood death, and how those understandings can be meaningfully reclaimed today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on saga literature, eddic poetry, archaeology, and comparative scholarship, Fjordfolk Kindred examines the complex web of beliefs surrounding the soul, the grave, the ancestral dead, and the realms beyond this life. Far from presenting a single \"heaven\" or \"hell,\" the Heathen worldview reveals a layered afterlife shaped by reputation, kinship, oath, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe multiple parts of the soul and their fate after death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurial mounds, grave goods, and the cult of the dead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHel, Valhǫll, F�lkvangr, and other posthumous destinations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncestor veneration and household cults\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunerary rites, memorial customs, and seasonal remembrance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ethical weight of legacy and reputation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe continuing presence of the dead among the living\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRejecting modern spiritual romanticism and New Age reinterpretations, \u003ci\u003eWalking Among the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e presents Heathen death belief as it was lived: practical, relational, and rooted in responsibility to family, community, and future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for both practitioners and serious students of Germanic religion, this work bridges academic research with lived religious practice. It invites readers not to escape mortality, but to face it with clarity, courage, and reverence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn walking among the dead, we learn how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891259293847,"sku":"9798248058051","price":1626.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798248058051.webp?v=1781182899","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/walking-among-the-dead-death-ancestry-and-the-afterlife-in-the-heathen-worldview-9798248058051","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}