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11-1-2005
Group offers Nazi baptisms, weddings
Nazi group Vigrid is offering its members alternative "weddings", "baptisms" and "confirmations". The rituals use Nazi and Norse symbols and are not illegal in Norway. Vigrid is described as a "Nordic religious society" and its leader Tore W. Tvedt calls himself a Norse priest. But he makes no effort to disguise the fact that Vigrid is a Nazi organisation, open to members "of all Nordic ethnic origins".
Tvedt's ceremonies are, he says, based on a combination of Nordic history and old epics, reports the Drammens Tidende and Verdens Gang newspapers.
Recently he "married" a couple in Lier near Drammen and two weeks ago a young boy was "baptised" according to Vigrid's rituals. Pictures showed Tvedt holding an implement
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from Norse mythology called a "torshammer" - resembling a cross between a crucifix and a hammer. The child was held between
ice and fire and Nazi flags adorned the walls.
The group also runs what Tvedt calls "confirmation instruction" for four 16-year-olds via the Internet. Required reading includes Nazi literature, including works denying the Holocaust as well as Tvedts own writings.
However he denies this is Nazi propaganda. Tvedt's rituals are not illegal in Norway even though Vigrid is not registered as a religious community.
Skara Brae,
madkins
11-1-2005
Group offers Nazi baptisms, weddings
Nazi group Vigrid is offering its members alternative "weddings", "baptisms" and "confirmations". The rituals use Nazi and Norse symbols and are not illegal in Norway. Vigrid is described as a "Nordic religious society" and its leader Tore W. Tvedt calls himself a Norse priest. But he makes no effort to disguise the fact that Vigrid is a Nazi organisation, open to members "of all Nordic ethnic origins".
Tvedt's ceremonies are, he says, based on a combination of Nordic history and old epics, reports the Drammens Tidende and Verdens Gang newspapers.
Recently he "married" a couple in Lier near Drammen and two weeks ago a young boy was "baptised" according to Vigrid's rituals. Pictures showed Tvedt holding an implement
r
from Norse mythology called a "torshammer" - resembling a cross between a crucifix and a hammer. The child was held between
ice and fire and Nazi flags adorned the walls.
The group also runs what Tvedt calls "confirmation instruction" for four 16-year-olds via the Internet. Required reading includes Nazi literature, including works denying the Holocaust as well as Tvedts own writings.
However he denies this is Nazi propaganda. Tvedt's rituals are not illegal in Norway even though Vigrid is not registered as a religious community.
Skara Brae,
madkins