Every so often you learn something about historical heathenry as a practicing heathen that's both grimly amusing and allows for a wee bit of a vindicated feeling
Surtshellir, or Surt's Cave, is a lava tube containing well-preserved Viking structures and artifacts from the early settlement of Iceland.
Particularly given my practice's connections with this particular sub-tribe of the Jotnar. This particular old shrine is the first confirmation of worship of any of the Thursar or the most openly malevolent of the Jotnar besides the Fenris-Wolf, Whom was both invoked and depicted in very old iconography as a gigantic canid gnawing off the hand of Tyr, Lord of Parliaments and War.
After having doubts for a long time of whether or not the old heathens would have done anything like it, I feel slightly vindicated that the more metaphysical approach I use with working with the Muspelli happens to have some actual mirrors from historical praxis.
