Politics has nothing to do with it. They did not talk like leftists or rightwings at the ting, and the Scandinavian people where certanly far from submissive at those times. To them freedom meant everyting. In Iceland they kept this way of governing untill the 13th century without any big problems. In the opposition to the Nazi and the Fascist ideology which is based on being submissive to a diktator, the Asatru is based on an individual freedom within democratic bounds.
All individuals are responsible for themselves and their own doings regulated by the laws.
This is the main ideology of Asatru. That is how it was thousand years ago in the heathen society. Nobody was above the laws, not even the king or other chieftains, who like anyone else could be judged and punished according to the demand of the people. Only with the influence of christianity power was taken away from the people and was then transferred to a central diktatorship represented by the church and the christian kings. Why the nazis then are inspired by heathen culture and Norse mythology is totally incomprehensible.