It should surprise no one that Heathenry and its associated, yet nascent, theology breeds insularity. Many reconstructionist attempts at understanding pre-Christian Germanic religion have fixated, falsely I feel, on the concept of a smaller tribal nucleus as an attempt to organize their worldview and establish an identity within and beneath the wider Western culture. While in-groups and out-groups exist in all walks of life and all social situations, Heathenry’s efforts are ultimately derived from the dated scholarship of Vilhelm Grønbech, and other contemporaneous scholars of his time, further inspired by romanticist movements, and taken to almost fanatical levels of dogma among many disparate groups of Heathens. The Inner-Outer dichotomy, a feature of Heathen social and religious positioning, is admittedly under-attested in the majority of…