RationalWiki#Ásatru (sometimes called #Odinism, Wodenism, Wotanism, and Odalism) is an attempt to cobble together an actual religion from #Norse #mythology and pre-Christian Germanic religious practices. This is difficult to pull off, as the Norse myths, like other ancient texts, are incredibly spotty, contradictory, and prone to mistranslation (just ask Wagner), and were written down hundreds of years after the events recounted in them allegedly happened (insofar as they are even meant to be historical). However, the same can be said of the Bible, the Qur'an, and the Book of Mormon.
Ásatru dates back to 1972 when a group, including farmer and poet Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, decided to relaunch a pagan religion. In #Iceland, the first Ásatru temple is being built for worshipers to carry out their religious rituals, and it could be architecturally interesting if it is ever completed.
