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name: Else Christensen
about: Pioneering Danish figure in the emergence of Odinism in the post-World War II era. She is nicknamed the Folk Mother. Before world war II she was active in the syndicalist movement. Which led to scrutiny during the second world war. After the war, the Christensens emigrated to Canada. In the early 1960s, they heard of a Proto-Odinist named Alexander Rud Mills who had an Odinist group in Australia and had written a small book called The Call of Our Ancient Nordic Religion.In 1969, Else and her husband founded a group called The Odinist Study Group which later evolved into The Odinist Fellowship