Talk:Community of Forn Sed Sweden

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Did you know... that the Swedish Asatru Assembly, now the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly, held a blót at Gamla Uppsala to celebrate the Church of Sweden no longer being the state church?

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Are you sure the title is in CamelCase? It looks very ugly... 惑乱分からん 22:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it looks really stupid, but if you go to their webpaige, (follow the link, and than hit in english) you can see that they spell it The Swedish AsatruSociety. Bronks 09:45, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

, yeah, it'd appear so. No idea why, though... 惑乱分からん 10:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that now they give their English name as "The Swedish Asatru Assembly"[1]. // Liftarn (talk) 21:31, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

True, moving article accordingly. (I was unsure on whether to keep the "the" in the title. Decided not to, for estetical reasons.) 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 02:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Antiracist or ethnic[edit]

The statement "antiracist or ethnic" that's sourced seems to designate a number of pagan groups rather than just SFSA. It might be better used at the Germanic neopaganism or Neopaganism in Scandinavia articles. Now, there are a bunch of different organisations bundled together , so it probably is just confusing to use it as a source. Judging from the organisation's own description, it doesn't seem to be related to ethnic neopaganism. [2] (A claim that, as I have understood it, different ethnic groups are equal, but different older religions are best fit for their respective ethnic group and context in which it was created.) 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 15:27, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would tend to agree - Gardell says "most groups" - and explicitly includes what is now the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly in his list of examples - are "either antiracist or ethnic", which leaves the reader to figure out which are which. Unfortunately we're not allowed to guess based on its self-description that he means this group is the former and not the latter; that would be original research. And it's possible he meant the two terms as roughly equivalent. Unless some other reliable 3rd-party source can be found characterising their stance (like the newspaper article that explicitly calls them gay-friendly), his rather confusing statement is all we have. I looked; maybe you can find something? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there is their self-description on their website, but it might constitute bias. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 13:53, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. Primary sources are to be avoided, and Gardell's book, for all its flaws, trumps any group's self-assessment. They are mentioned in several Swedish-language sources that I can only see snippets of online and can't access in hard copy. Hopefully now that you've drawn attention to this someone will come up with a better citation. (It has to be from a reliable source, so the publications of other heathen groups won't do.) --Yngvadottir (talk) 13:58, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Name of the organisation[edit]

The correct English name of the organisation "Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige" is "Forn Sed Sweden" and its abbreviation is "FSS". Here in an excerpt from the protocol showing this decision by the board of Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige.

Protokoll fört vid rådsmöte i Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige (FSS) 2011-03-06.

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5g) Hur förkortar vi Samfundets namn?

Rådet beslutar att förkortningen av Samfundets namn är FSS och att Samfundets engelska namn är Forn Sed Sweden.

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/ Achird (talk) 18:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Is that online anywhere so that it can be cited in a note? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:28, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is now: See Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige: In English. / Achird (talk) 19:59, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Added to article after the Swedish, with a note, and redirect created. But I won't move the article because this is its common name in English to teh extent it's referred to at all by the new name. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:05, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]