Henry Williamson is one of my favourite authors. He had an unsentimental and pure view of nature which informed his general views on life and enabled him to write some of the most widely celebrated books on animals and the English countryside every written. For several reasons, I feel a personal connection to his work, which I shall explain in this stream.

In this speech delivered at the Asgardian festival in 2016, Thomas Rowsell explains how the Norse pagans had a caste system similar to that of the Hindus and how the two religions have much in common.