The Council of Nine

A founding member. Maren has practiced Heathenry for more than twenty years and has kept a small kindred in the Pacific Northwest for twelve of them. She works as a nurse and chairs the Council in her second and final consecutive term.

A founding member and a high school teacher of history and Norwegian. Ingrid designed the Lore Circle curriculum and facilitates a Lore Circle each term.

Elspeth trained in archaeology with a focus on early medieval textiles, and is a hand spinner and weaver. She has edited our journal since its first issue in 2019.

Imani came to Heathenry through a university study group and has organized inclusive Heathen events in the upper Midwest for a decade. She leads the working group that maintains the Frith Standard.

Tamsin has worked in safeguarding for community organizations for fifteen years. She trains frithkeepers and advises kindreds that are writing their first code of conduct.

Jorunn practiced alone in northern Ontario for many years before joining one of the first hearth circles in 2018. She now supports the hosts of all thirty-four circles and coordinates the Fostering Program.

A founding member. Katrin is a translator by trade and writes for The Distaff on continental Germanic sources, from the Rhineland matron stones to the Merseburg charms.

Celina leads our translation volunteers and hosts the Portuguese-language hearth circle. She writes about solitary practice and about being Heathen far from the lands where the lore was recorded.

Bronwyn keeps the holy tides by the southern seasons, with Yule in June, and helps circles in Australia and New Zealand adapt a northern calendar to the land they actually live on.