CORRECTIONAL RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Hákonarætt Hall of Restoration & Kinship supports the religious life and formation of incarcerated practitioners of the Old Ways through religious materials, study resources, and correspondence appropriate to correctional settings.
We welcome communication from chaplains and religious-services personnel seeking information about our tradition, materials, or ministry.
Hákonarætt Fellowship welcomes inquiries from correctional chaplains seeking religious materials for incarcerated practitioners of the Old Ways. We are willing to work with institutions concerning approved formats, quantities, distribution procedures, and facility requirements.
The Fellowship focuses on faithful religious practice, community, and lifelong learning. Our emphasis is revering the Gods, honoring the ancestors, and respecting the landvættir—not politics, ancestry, or historical reenactment.
The Hall develops and provides resources intended to support religious formation, reflection, responsibility, and continued connection with the Old Norse religious tradition.
A Hákonarætt Study in Wisdom, Responsibility & Renewal
A twenty-study workbook exploring wisdom, responsibility, character, consequence, renewal, and the continuing work of building a good name. It was developed especially with correctional and restoration settings in mind.
A religious newsletter for incarcerated practitioners offering reflections, teachings, study, and practical encouragement for keeping the hearth through difficult circumstances.
Practical religious guidance for maintaining remembrance, study, disciplined conduct, and faithful practice when ordinary forms of communal or material religious life may be limited.
Hákonarætt is rooted in the Old Norse religious tradition and approaches that tradition as a living religious inheritance rather than as historical reenactment. Religious life includes reverence for the Gods, remembrance of the ancestors, respect for the landvættir, study of inherited sources, and the cultivation of responsible relationships and conduct.
Participation is not based upon race, ethnicity, ancestry, nationality, or political identity.
We understand that correctional institutions establish their own procedures concerning correspondence, religious materials, publications, property, programming, volunteers, and distribution.
When communicating with a facility, the Hall seeks to work within applicable institutional procedures concerning format, quantity, mailing, approval, and distribution. Chaplains or religious-services personnel may contact us with facility-specific requirements so that we can determine how best to respond.
Incarcerated practitioners may inquire about religious materials and resources, subject to the correspondence and religious-services procedures of their institution. Family members or other supporters may also contact the Hall when seeking information about available resources.
Availability, format, and distribution may depend upon the particular resource and the requirements of the correctional institution.
The Hall's work does not end at the institution's door. Our restoration and reentry resources encourage responsibility, healthy relationships, continued religious practice, and meaningful connection with community as individuals prepare for life beyond incarceration.
Where appropriate, returning practitioners may also use Find the Fellowship to discover independent kindreds, developing communities, and other practitioners in their broader area.
Correctional chaplains, religious-services personnel, institutions, incarcerated practitioners, and family members are welcome to contact us concerning available materials, religious information, or ministry inquiries.