The former Asatru-EU Network (AEUN) that has been founded in 2006 and has been behind the previous IASC camps since 2009 has been replaced by the private association Asatru Europe Network e.V. i.Gr. (AEN), founded in December 2024 in Cologne (Germany). A brief history of AEUN is placed at the end of this text.
AEN is still in the process of legal registration in Germany, we hope to have this done within March 2025. You will find all necessary information on our homepage https://www.asatru-europe.network.
Our Network is a cooperation between several heathen organisations as well as individuals. The aim is bringing together heathens for the furthering of understanding between them, the knowledge of the different aspects and practices of heathendom and hence expanding our horizon on Germanic heathendom today.
Although we are a European network with European members and groups only, we do welcome guests and contact and/or cooperation with individuals and groups worldwide. All who agree upon our Mission Statement are welcome to join our gatherings of all kinds in real life or on the internet.
History
The world wide web made and makes it easier to find other heathens at home and abroad. In the first years of this century the Danish heathen Martin Peter Hansen made the effort to contact individual heathens and heathen groups all over Europe. Back then he was chairman of the Danish asatru group Forn Siðr and on behalf of this organisation he invited heathens from abroad to their allthing. People gladly accepted these invitations and this set off what over the years grew into Asatru-EU Network (AEUN).
In 2006 Martin Peter for the first time told about his dream of an international asatru summer camp. Two years later nine heathen groups from seven different European countries embraced the idea and after stormy preparations the first IASC took place in Denmark in 2009. The camp was all and more all people involved in the organisation and participants could have imagined and thus IASC became a main goal for AEUN.
At present Asatru Network is formed by fourteen heathen groups and some individuals, amongst them people from Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands.