Norse Gods Were Migrants

The Prose Edda presents Odin and the Aesir as migrants from 'Turkland' (Anatolia), not autochthonous Nordic beings. That textual lineage undercuts modern attempts to adopt Germanic paganism as a 'pure,' native alternative to Christianity’s Jewish roots, especially for Americans with weak cultural continuity to old Europe. The broader point: Western religious identity has always been syncretic and mobile. — It challenges ethnonationalist and anti‑Christian framings by showing that even the source texts of Norse paganism depict foreign origins, making 'ancestral purity' projects incoherent.