Ásatrú Alliance

The Ásatrú Alliance (AA) is an American Heathen group founded in 1988 by Michael J. Murray (a.k.a. Valgard Murray) of Arizona, a former vice-president of Else Christensen's Odinist Fellowship. The establishment of the Alliance, as well as the establishment of The Troth, followed the disbanding of the Asatru Free Assembly ("old AFA") in 1986. The Ásatrú Alliance largely reconstituted the old AFA, is dominated by prior AFA members, and acts as a distributor of previously AFA publications. Initially aligned with the "folkish" wing of Heathenry, which emphasized ancestry-based participation, the Alliance has since disavowed racial exclusivity and now emphasizes Norse cultural and spiritual traditions without requiring ancestral lineage.

Valgard Murray died on February 4, 2025, after a battle with cancer. As of 2023, the Allsherjargothi of the Alliance is Ottar F. Valgardsson. The Ásatrú Alliance describes itself as a family-oriented association of independent kindreds who practice Ásatrú, the ancestral ethnic religion of the Northern European peoples. Organized along tribal-democratic lines, the Alliance convenes its annual governing council, the AlThing, where bylaws are established and affirmed by participating kindreds. It promotes the cultural heritage of Northern Europe through religious expression and explicitly rejects hatred, racism, and political extremism. Political activity within the religion is prohibited under its bylaws.