| LC control no. | n 90000166 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Aswynn, Freya, 1949- |
| Variant(s) | Hooijschuur, Elizabeth, 1949- |
| Associated country | Spain England Netherlands |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1949-11 |
| Place of birth | Zaanstad (Netherlands) |
| Field of activity | Music Avant-garde (Music) Wicca Paganism Fortune-telling by runes Alexandrian (Wiccan sect) Gardnerian (Wiccan sect) Seidhr Heathenism Germanic neopaganism Neofolk music |
| Affiliation | Ring of Troth (Organization) Rune-Gild (Organization) Gladsheim (Organization) Northern (Sect) |
| Profession or occupation | Wiccans Pagans Musicians |
| Found in | Her Leaves of Yggdrasil, 1990: CIP t.p. (Freya Aswynn) data sheet, etc. (b. 11/09/49; Dutch occultist) Wikipedia, viewed November 10, 2021 (Elizabeth Hooijschuur (born November 1949), known by her pen name Freya Aswynn, is a Dutch writer and musician, primarily known for her activities related to modern Paganism in the United Kingdom; early exponent of a form of Germanic neopaganism centred on women; involved in the early neofolk music scene in London in the 1980s; born in November 1949 in Zaanstad, the Netherlands, as Elizabeth Hooijschuur; initiated into Wicca in 1980 by Jim Bennett, supervised by Alex Sanders; she became active in Gardnerian Wicca; move into Germanic neopaganism; her version of seiðr as magical and shamanic; in rune mysticism in the 1980s she developed her own approach to runic divination; lives in Tufnell Park; active in Edred Thorsson's organisation the Rune-Gild until 1995; In 1993 she initiated a British branch of the American organisation the Ring of Troth, later renamed Ring of Troth Europe; left London to live in Scotland and eventually Spain) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Aswynn> Freya Aswynn website, viewed November 10, 2021 (in 1994, I sold the house and with my share I bought a large farmhouse in Scotland in 1996; founded another community named “Gladsheim”; In 2005 I moved to Southern Spain; Ring of Troth Europe ... progressive Northern Tradition group) <http://aswynn.com/freya-aswynn-home/about-me/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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