Hákonarætt Fellowship is a religious fellowship of Old Norse kindreds joined as one household through shared tradition, mutual responsibility, and common purpose.

Our name, Hákonarætt—the House of Hákon—reflects the example of Hákon the Good and a vision of religious community rooted in faith, learning, leadership, hospitality, and responsibility. Through local kindreds, shared institutions, and the formation of future leaders, Hákonarætt seeks to preserve, live, and carry forward the Old Norse religious tradition for generations to come.

Hákonarætt takes its name from Hákon the Good, King of Norway, whose life stands at the meeting place of faith, leadership, learning, and responsibility.

For Hákonarætt, the idea of a house is more than a name. It represents a spiritual household made up of local kindreds, families, and individuals who share a common inheritance while remaining rooted in their own communities.

Hákon the Good provides an enduring example of leadership shaped by responsibility, restraint, courage, and concern for the people entrusted to his care. His legacy inspires our commitment to building religious communities capable of carrying an ancient tradition faithfully into the present and passing it forward to future generations.

The kindreds of Hákonarætt share a religious tradition rooted in the inherited stories, practices, and worldview of the Old Norse world.

We revere the Gods, remember our ancestors, respect the landvættir, and look to the Eddas, sagas, historical sources, and inherited traditions as guides for understanding and living the Old Ways today.

Through blót, sumbel, seasonal holy tides, study, hospitality, fellowship, and service, we seek to cultivate communities shaped by honor, frith, responsibility, wisdom, and enduring relationships.

Hákonarætt does not seek merely to recreate the past. We seek to receive what has been inherited, understand it faithfully, live it meaningfully in our own time and place, and preserve it for those who come after us.

Hákonarætt brings together local religious communities and shared institutions within one wider fellowship. Local kindreds retain their own community life and leadership while participating in a common religious household.

Hákonarætt Fellowship was established to provide a shared religious household for local kindreds committed to living and carrying forward the Old Norse tradition. Its first local expression, Hákonar Highland Rim Kindred, serves Middle Tennessee and became the founding kindred of the Fellowship.

From the beginning, Hákonarætt was envisioned as more than a single local community. Strong kindreds need relationships, shared resources, opportunities for learning, and institutions capable of supporting the tradition across generations.

The Fellowship brings those elements together within one household, allowing distinct local kindreds to remain rooted in their own communities while sharing tradition, fellowship, formation, and mutual support.

As new kindreds take their place within the Fellowship and the Hákonarætt Institute of Eddic Studies develops its work of education and formation, Hákonarætt continues to grow from the same principle with which it began: build locally, strengthen one another, and carry the tradition forward together.

Hákonarætt is built with the future in mind. Our work is not only to preserve what has been inherited, but to cultivate strong kindreds, capable leaders, enduring institutions, and communities in which the Old Norse tradition can be lived and passed from one generation to the next.

What we inherit, we have a responsibility to carry forward.