Denmark to Accept Norse God Marriages (Pagan religion officially recognized)

Newsday ^ | 11/06/03 | Jan Olsen

[MikalM]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Home to the Vikings of yore, Denmark said Wednesday it will let a group that worships Thor, Odin and other Norse gods conduct legally-recognized marriages.

"To me, it would be wrong if the indigenous religion of this country wasn't recognized," Tove Fergo, the minister for Ecclesiastic Affairs and a Lutheran priest, told The Associated Press.

Under Danish law, the state Evangelical Lutheran Church has sole authority to recognize other religious communities.

[Semper Paratus]

What about the Norse God funerals?

[RightWingAtheist]

Did Walt Simonson write their Bible?

[shadowman99]

I can get married by the Viking Kittens?

[wimpycat]

Good question! Are they going to get Viking funerals, too, or would that violate some wacko environmental laws?

[expat_panama]

Aren't they the one's with the ceremony where they nail the bride's pigtails to the wall and the groom cuts her loose by throwing axes?

[Grig]

Somebody's been playing Age of Mythology just a little too much.

[AppyPappy]

"I'm a viking! And I've come to take your land, oh yes! I've come to take your land, and I've come to burn your crops and steal your horses. And I've come to ... step on your chickens! And soil your quilts!"

-Pa Grape as a Viking in "Veggie Tales"

[El Conservador]

[theDentist]

Yeah. Do the Viking Kittens do secularist or orthodox Norse weddings?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Getting married by Thor kinda gets the marriage off to a rocky start.

[JennysCool]

Some still vociferously protested the ban on "Gay Norse Marriages"

[Semper Paratus]

Aren't they the one's with the ceremony where they nail the bride's pigtails to the wall and the groom cuts her loose by throwing axes?

LOL Isn't that a Viking Bachelor Party?

[expat_panama]

Isn't that a Viking Bachelor Party?

No wait, I was thinking about the 'quicky norse divorce'.

[don'tbedenied]

How appropriate, today is Thor's Day, I mean Thursday.
You know maybe we're not that far away from Paganism.
Now excuse me while I take down my Halloween decorations and put up some Winter Solstice, I mean Christmas decorations.

[Lee Heggy]

Hold ma flagon hon!

OOHWEE! Let's go berzerker and have a honeymoon in Ireland the way they used to! Where did I put the keys to the dragon ship? Seen my helm laying around anywhere?

[ASA Vet]

[talleyman]

It's Thorsday - I need to wear my weejuns?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Or how 'bout the Swedish Bikini Team ?

[MikalM]