(Part 2) Top products from r/asatru

Denmark's Ribe center has resources for period foods including cheese (fermentation of milk for preservation and taste) and smoked meat and fish (which, while this is not fermentation, it is preservation). Bread, especially sourdough, is also a form of fermentation and so, obviously, are traditional alcohols (beer, mead, fruit wines). Here's another resource with period recipes.

Look toward modern fermented fish recipes—they likely have not changed much. Asia continues to have a vibrant culture (HAR) of fermentation but fermentation is a Thing that most cultures developed—yeast, after all, one of the main requirements for fermentation, is in the air just about everywhere.

You asked for "something similar but more close to home". What is "home" (do you mean ancestrally or currently)? It's very likely that you can find a local pickling group that can help you learn how to pickle things and, once you've pickled one thing, you can pickle just about anything. You can also hit up Amazon for pickling.

Or, y'know, ask your elders, especially the women. Most people who are in their 80s–90s now pickled. Most people in their 60s–70s learned to pickle from them. This is due to WWII and is pretty much going to be true regardless of country.

If "close to home" means "my family is from [Germany/England/Sweden] but I live in [France/South Africa/Mexico]", a solid google search in the language in question should lead you to local modern recipes. For the most part, pickling has only changed with regard to the technology not with regard to the recipes.

Share what you make! Remember that your dísr are at your elbow as you ferment! Honor them and ask for their luck in your success.

I understand completely. Sometimes the book itself just has an intrinsic value that transcends the information on it's pages. One of my prized possessions is a copy of the Elder Edda published around 1870, and it's written in Old Danish. I can't read Danish of any age, but that doesn't stop the book from having great value to me.

That said, if I were looking for reasonably priced physical copies of the Sagas and Eddas, I'd go with Sagas of the Icelanders published by Penguin, The Poetic Edda translated by Lee M. Hollander and maybe The Prose Edda By Snorri Sturlusson translated by Jesse L. Byock. Good translations, good editions.

Historical

• Women in Old Norse Society - Probably one of the most balanced looks at the roles of men and women before, during, and after Christianization.
  
• The Dancing Goddess: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance - Wonderful look at some of the origins of tradition that are rooted in dance from an Indo-European perspective.
  
• Norse Magical and Herbal Healing - Written in Iceland around the year 1500, the little book now known only as AM 434a is a treasure trove of medieval medical knowledge. It contains a number of magical spells, charms, prayers, runes, and symbols to bring health, wealth, and good fortune. The roots of the healing traditions in AM 434a go back thousands of years before the book itself was written.
  
  General Heathen Cultural Interest
  
  
• Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism - Really in depth book about the racialist Pagan movements, their origins, and how they think.
  
  
  The following are a bit controversial, but I feel they are worth reading:
  
  
• NeoPagan Rites by Isaac Bonewits - This is a rather religiously agnostic book, but it speaks to how to create rituals that work.
  
• Seeking the Mysteries: An Introduction to Pagan Theologies - I honestly found this book useful to be able to understand theological construction from a non-Christian POV.
  
  

It was actually a work of fiction that opened my eyes to heathenry and the idea of old gods existing. The series is called The Iron Druid Chronicles. Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but if it is and you don't mind a bit of poetic license (obviously)...
It's an urban fantasy series taking place in modern times and features a 2,100 year old shape-shifting, plane-walking druid, a hilarious talking dog, several pantheons (obviously as a Druid the Celtic pantheon is featured the most, but the Norse are also featured heavily), and lots of other adventurous things you'd expect in a fantasy series.
If you want to check it out I actually suggest going the audiobook route instead of the book route because the narration is fantastic. I've both listened and read but the narration just brought everything to life more than my imagination could. http://www.amazon.com/Hounded-Druid-Chronicles-Kevin-Hearne/dp/0345522478

Here is a good beginner's book on OHG.

Here is an OHG-English dictionary in PDF form.

Germania is perhaps the greatest source we have for insight into the Germanic tribal religion.

Jacob Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, while controversial, provides a lot of insight into lesser-known Germanic deities.

Even post-conversion works like the Kinder- und Hausmärchen can help us understand the remnants of heathen belief in German culture.

Well I'm British too, and I wouldn't expect people to really know much about our history. Most people from here don't know either!

If you're more interested in this period of English history, I'd really, really recommend this book. It taught me a lot :)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Search-Dark-Ages-Michael-Wood/dp/0563522763/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412190804&sr=1-10&keywords=anglo+saxon+england

There are two JOCHT's, but the last volume of this anual publication is if 2012. It is a pretty academic work.
Similar journals are "Mímir", "Northern Traditions" of Primordial Traditions/Numen Books (less academic) and in German the "Heidnisches Jahrbuch" (six volumes, the last one from 2012.
Less heathen, but still upto a certain degree is "Tyr Journal" (with Collin Cleary who wrote some books worth reading.

Oh, and I also recommend Lee M. Hollander's The Poetic Edda. Good, strong, translation without added fluff or wiccatru.

Just got my copy in a few weeks ago from amazon, and I've got to say that I really enjoy it. If you haven't read Rydberg's Investigations Into Germanic Mythology then I'd highly recommend it as it would explain a lot of the interpretations. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with a multitude of Rydberg's conclusions, but he does have some incredible insights that really caught me off-guard.

The most popular translation is the Hollander translation.

Well, not trying to be a dick here, (seriously, it's hard to get "tone" on the internet) but you're willfully spreading misinformation about things we actually know quite a bit about. We know that Snorri's work was very much a product of his time and place. He and all his buddies were extremely literate. And a whole lot of all their works survived. As I said, we know quite a bit about him and Iceland/Scandinavia at that time. There are many scholars at universities around the world who spend their entire academic careers on piecing this all together, this thing we call Old Norse Religion. The info is out there, but it takes a lot of work. Even many of us armchair academic Heathens have spent many years working on this. One can't read "Asatru" books or blogs or whatever and expect to learn what Arch-Heathens actually believed. Most stuff written by any "Asatru" author is going to be crap, to be honest.
For more on Snorri and his legacy, start here

At a minimum, I think everyone should have a copy of his Dictionary of Northern Mythology on their shelf. It's a great quick reference and a quality leaping off point for research. It's not exhaustive, but high quality none-the-less.

> The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazer

Youre link doesnt go to any particular source.

I think you meant this

https://www.amazon.com/Norse-Mythology-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0393356183/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523172034&sr=8-1&keywords=neil+gaiman+norse+mythology

1. Cult of the Matronae
   
2. For this, see Lotte Motz and Rudolf Simek

Is this the right book?
EDIT: Formatting

I got Thomas Dubois book on Nordic Religions in the Viking Age

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008214WQW?keywords=Snorri&qid=1452708656&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

My parents are actually christian missionaries as well and after I explained it to them they became quite worried but eventually understood and accecpted my religious views. My suggestion is to give them a copy of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Asatru-Walking-Norse-Paganism/dp/0806527080/ref=cm_lmf_tit_8 which really helped me when I first tried explaining it to them.