The Nine Noble Virtues and Charges of the Odinic Rite

The 9 Noble Virtues

The moral codes of the Odinic Rite were codified from The Hávamál and The Sigrdrífomál (poems from the Elder Edda) in the early 1970’s by two of the OR’s founding members; John Yeowell (aka Stubba) and John Gibbs-Bailey (aka Hoskuld). Since that time they have been widely adopted and although others have felt the need to change and adapt them, to us they remain as laid down by our founders.

Courage – Truth – Honour – Fidelity – Discipline – Hospitality – Self-reliance – Industriousness – Perseverance

The 9 Noble Charges

To maintain candour and fidelity in love and devotion to the tried friend: though he strike me I will do him no scathe.

Never to make wrongsome oath: for great and grim is the reward for the breaking of plighted troth.

To deal not hardly with the humble and the lowly.

To remember the respect that is due to great age.

To suffer no evil to go unremedied and to fight against the enemies of Faith, Folk and Family: my foes I will fight in the field, nor will I stay to be burnt in my house.

To succour the friendless but to put no faith in the pledged word of a stranger people.

If I hear the fool’s word of a drunken man I will strive not: for many a grief and the very death groweth from out such things.

To give kind heed to dead men: straw dead, sea dead or sword dead.

To abide by the enactments of lawful authority and to bear with courage the decrees of the Norns.