After reading about the Steadfast Trust, and the Anglo Saxons, I am wondering about a group called "an gesithas engliscas" I came across at Tenterden many years ago. There was a local man who dressed up and lectured, accompanied by his wife, whose costume looked more Hollywood than authentic, and I was interested, but did not attend, and then decided not to when I saw that their aim was to "preserve the Anglo-Saxon way of life" which rang bells that did not alert me to re-enactment and such like.

I wonder what the Boys Brigade thinks about the use of steadfast - I know they spell it differently.

I would be very suspicious about Odinism - there used to be a book in my local library about it, or rather the origin of races, put in their proper locations by the will of Odin, emphasising that they should stay there. It was self published in typescript, and I used to slip it down the back of the stack whenever I saw it. It was filed in the science section, close to to the book proving the Colorado Canyon was the prodect of the Noachian Flood.

Penny