This first glossary explains terms as they appear in the Wolfpack’s own documents. It is a reading companion, not an amendment to the tenets or bylaws. Historical meanings and interpretations can vary; where a distinction matters, it is identified below.
Ask and Embla
The ancestral pair named in the Wolfpack’s first and twelfth tenets. Those passages explain their place within the organization’s statement of identity and belief.
Blot
A sacred ritual discussed in the thirteenth tenet as an exchange between the gods and the folk and a means of communication with the gods and ancestors. Ritual arrangements should be confirmed with the responsible organizer.
Folk
A recurring term in the official statement for the community to which its religious and ancestral commitments refer. Read it within the full statement rather than treating this brief entry as a separate membership rule.
Frith and grith
Terms associated with strong community in the ninth tenet. This glossary directs readers to that commitment; it does not assign the two historical terms an identical meaning in every context.
Hamingja
The third tenet describes the hamingja shared by family as the soul of its forefathers, passed through generations. This is the Wolfpack’s stated usage. Historical dictionary entries also discuss luck, fortune, and personal or familial associations; those meanings should be studied in their own textual contexts.
Honor
The tenth tenet connects correct action with the honor of one’s words. In practical discussion, this invites attention to promises, conduct, and accountability.
Kindred
A term for an organized religious community used throughout the Wolfpack’s materials. Formal organizational definitions and requirements belong to the Law Speaker and bylaws, which should be consulted directly.
Kirke
The sixth tenet uses this word with the parenthetical explanation “church.” The surrounding passage describes responsibilities toward families and the broader folk.
Natural Law
A term affirmed in the fourth tenet together with Wyrd. This brief guide does not add a new definition or replace the wording of that statement.
Norns
Named in the explanation of Wyrd accompanying the eleventh tenet. Readers should consult that passage and study individual sources before assuming that every discussion uses the same cosmological model.
Orlog
The explanation following the eleventh tenet connects the events of our lives with those of our ancestors. The surrounding tenet discusses virtue, success, failure, and the shaping of Wyrd. Read the full passage for the official wording.
Pan-Teutonic
The first tenet uses this description alongside references to Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Teutonic pantheons. It identifies the breadth of the Wolfpack’s stated religious frame.
Polytheistic
Belief in multiple gods and goddesses. The first tenet explicitly describes the Wolfpack’s belief as polytheistic.
Wyrd
The fourth tenet identifies Wyrd with fate, while the explanation after the eleventh tenet describes its connections with all things, the Norns, and each person’s Orlog. These references provide the Wolfpack’s stated usage.
Reading historical meanings
For a historical comparison, the hamingja entry in Yrða’s Old Icelandic–English dictionary presents older lexical evidence and textual references. A dictionary entry and a modern religious statement have different purposes; consult both with that distinction in mind.