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The Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið "Icelandic fellowship of Æsir faith (Ásatrú)" is an Icelandic neopagan new religious movement with the purpose of reviving the pre-Christianization religion of Scandinavia. It was founded on the summer solstice, 1972, and was recognized as an official religion by the Icelandic government in 1973, largely due to the efforts of Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson.
As of December 2007, the Ásatrúarfélagið had 1.149 members, referred to as Ásatrúarmenn.
Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson acted as allsherjargoði from 1972 until his death in December 1993. He was succeeded by:
According to religious studies scholar Michael Strmiska, "the surviving texts and other related materials concerning the original Norse Pagan religion are too fragmentary and incomplete to provide a definitive basis for all Ásatrú rituals and pursuits, and must be judiciously supplemented by ideas and practices improvised in the present or borrowed from other sources."[1]
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