> Asatru - it's a religion of peace.
No, it's not. but then, it doesn't claim to be. Asatru is a religion of *honor.* However, as with allr eligions, there's the whackadoodle subset, largley known as "Odinists." These are you straight-out-of-central-casting white supremecists who consider themselves "warriors."
The rest of the Asatruar both desise these types and laugh at them for importing Middel Eatern wackiness into the North belief system. The texts and lore of Asatru, the myths and sagas from the 9th through 12th centuries, are quite clear on the idea of "racial mixing" as a fully accepted practice.
Many "Odinists" are to Asatru what Satanists are to Christianity.
Does anyone know where the roots of the World Tree go? No one does and there's only one tree for everyone. I used to practice asatru but only for a short time. I found that most who had a passing interest were into it because it was a vent for their failures in life and hate for anyone 'not of aryan stock' whatever. They had no clue about the poetic literature, system of values,etc. Odinism to them was just as you say, like satanism. My current interest in anything of the old Norse religion is the literature and of course, the runes!