>>4495>I can guarantee that most people here don't have scandinavian ancestors. Sorry to disappoint, but in my family we've got solid genealogical evidence and genetic analysis. It's confirmed; we've got ancestors from all three major branches of Germanic ethnicity. Oh no!
>pretending to be Scandinavian when you're not, especially a heavily romanticised version of Scandinavian culture, is being a scandiboo and is just as bad as the weebs.You demonstrate a very severe misunderstanding of the role of Scandinavian sources in modern Germanic heathenry.
Heathens today who assert no Scandinavian ancestry whatsoever still rely on those sources for quite a bit of information. Likewise, people of primarily Scandinavian ancestry also generally take some interest in continental or insular sources. In both cases, this is because, philologically, we can pretty conclusively identify the Scandinavian, Continental, and Insular Germanic cultures as separating from the Proto- or Common Germanic culture fairly recently, at about 2000-3000 years ago, judging by extant runic inscriptions and linguistic analysis.
It turned out that a great deal of mythology, folklore, and so forth was preserved in largely compatible and recognizable forms, even as the main branches of Germanic culture continued to divide as many tribes developed, migrated, unified, and so forth up to the beginning of christianization. We know this from comparative linguistics, from toponym evidence, from runic inscriptions, from the archaeological record, and from accounts by writers outside Germanic culture (like Tacitus and Ibn Fadlan).
Germanic peoples had unique local customs that varied from place to place, and from one large region to the next. But there were unifying currents in all of them that point backward to the Common Germanic period. And we can derive all that before we even get to the stuff that people wrote down in Latin script, that gets so much more attention – mainly because it records our mythology and pantheon in greater detail. The point is that this is a project that draws on a lot of work by a lot of people in several disciplines spanning across the whole of Europe and looking at about a 2,000-year period of history.
So, really, the thing is that if you're seeing this as a movement that is myopically obsessed with Scandinavian maritime culture in the late first millennium AD, and you wonder why people don't react the way you expect when you point that out, it's largely because you have a really warped and distorted idea of what is actually going on among Germanic heathens today. You say to us "if the shoe fits, wear it", as you hand us a fragment of brass buckle. Which I guess is a part of one kind of shoe….