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1. To act as a freely available resource for adherents of the
Northern spiritual faith known as Heithni. The goal of
the Foundation, which hosts this site, is the education of genuine Heithinn
values, history, culture and religion.
2. To promote, in general, Northern European cultural heritage.
3. To act as a freely available resource for Northern European and Indo-European
studies, by providing an extensive online library of texts.
* Heithni comes from the Old Norse word heiðni
which is a word that was used in elder times to describe the pre-Christian spiritual
tradition of the Northern European peoples. The word Heithinn comes from the
Old Norse word heiðinn which we use as an adjective to describe the
ideals of Heithni (ex. Heithinn ethics - those ethics which conform to Heithni),
or as a noun to describe those who live by the ethic and world-view of Heithni
(ex. He is Heithinn, those people are Heithnir [plural]). Heiðni also means
'high, pure, clear' in Icelandic.
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