The Nine Noble Virtues are the ethical code gleaned from various sources including the Poetic Edda (particularly the Hávamál), the Icelandic Sagas and Germanic folklore they were codified by the Odinic Rite in the 1970\'s.

The virtues are:

Courage
Truth
Honour
Fidelity
Discipline
Hospitality
Self Reliance
Industriousness
Perseverance

The Nine Charges are, like the Nine Noble Virtues, codified by the Odinic Rite in the 1970\'s.

The charges are:

To maintain candour and fidelity in love and devotion to the tried friend: though he strike me I will do him no scathe.

Never to make wrongsome oath: for great and grim is the reward for the breaking of plighted troth.

To deal not hardly with the humble and the lowly.

To remember the respect that is due to great age.

To suffer no evil to go unremedied and to fight against the enemies of Faith, Folk and Family: my foes I will fight in the field, nor will I stay to be burnt in my house.

To succour the friendless but to put no faith in the pledged word of a stranger people. If I hear the fool\'s word of a drunken man I will strive not: for many a grief and the very death groweth from out such things.

To give kind heed to dead men: straw dead, sea dead or sword dead.

Gorm 900-940
Harald Bluetooth 945-985
Svein Tjuguskegg 985-1014
Harald 1014-1018
Knut the Great 1018-1035
Hörda Knut 1035-1042
Magnus the Good, ruled over Denmark and Norway 1042-1047
Svein Ulfsson 1047-1075

Halfdan the Black, died 860
Harald Fairhair, reigned 860-930
Eirik Bloodaxe 930-934
Hakon the Good 930-934
Harald Grafeld (greyskin) reigned 960-965
Hakon Jarl the Great, the hero of the battle of Gomsviking, reigned 965-995
Olaf Tryggvason ,, 995-1000
Eirik Jarl , 1000-1015
Olaf ,, 1015-1028
Knut the Great reigned 1028-1035
Magnus the Good ,, 1035-1047
Harald Hardradi ,, 1047-1066
Olaf the Quiet ,, 1066-1093
Magnus Barefoot ,, 1093-1103
Three sons: -- Eystein, Olaf, Sigurd Jórsalafari 1103-1130
Civil war -- Harald Gilli, Magnus the Blind, and others 1130-1162
Magnus Erlingsson 1162-1184
Sverrir ( Sigurdson) 1184-1202

Ivar Vidfadmi
Harald Hilditönn
Sigurd Hring
Ragnar Lodbrók
Björn Ironside
Eirik and Refil
Eymund and Björn 800-830
Olaf and Eymund c. 850
Eyrik Eymundsson died c. 882
Björn Eiriksson and Hring 900-950
Eirik the Victorious c. 950-994
Olaf Skaut-konung c. 994-1022
Önund Jakob c. 1022-1050
Eymund the Old c. 1050-1060
Steinkel Rönvaldson c. 1060-1066

To victory I am born, And not to common toil; I keep my sights on the boundless heights, To my kinsmen I am loyal. Like the Spartans at Thermopylae, That spirit is a part of me; To seek a noble destiny, With an iron will undying. There are no foes I feign to meet, No challenge that I do not greet, And when life is at last complete, My final battle won.... I\'ll stand with Wotan eye to eye, With Freyja ride to Asgard high; Intrepid spirits never die, In that gleaming grand Valhalla.

The heroes legend travels far, Like warriors of the Einherjar; So reach brave kinsman, for that star, That no one can deny you. Through endless time our spirits pour, As waves against a stormy shore; And life goes on for evermore, Like the fame of a great man\'s deeds, Like the fame of a great man\'s deeds.....

......Ron McVan

\" Maxims of the Fianna \"

(As instructed to the son of Luga)

Son of Luga, if armed service be thy design, in a great man\'s household be quiet, surly in the narrow pass.

Without a fault of his beat not thy hound; until thou ascertain her guilt, bringnot a charge against thy wife.

In battle meddle not with a baffoon, for, O mac Luga, he is but a fool.

Censure not any if he be of grave repute; stand not up to take part in a brawl; have naught to do with a madman or a wicked one.

Two-thirds of the gentleness be shown to woman and to those that creep on the floor (little children) and to poets, and be not violent to the common people.

Utter not swaggering speech, nor say thou wilt not yield what is right; it is a shameful thing to speak too stiffly unless that it be feasible to carry out thy words.

So long as thou shalt live, thy lord forsake not; neither for gold nor for other reward in the world abandon one whom thou art pledged to protect.

To a chief do not abuse his people, for that is no work for a man of gentle blood.

Be no tale-bearer, nor utterer of falsehoods; be not talkative nor rashly censorious. Stir not up strife against thee, however good a man thou be.

Be no frequenter of the drinking-house, nor given to carping at the old; meddle not with a man of mean estate.

Dispense thy meat freely; have no niggard for thy familiar.

Force not thyself upon a chief, nor give him cause to speak ill of thee.

Stick to thy gear; hold fast to thy arms till the stern fight with its weapon-glitter be ended.

Be more apt to give than to deny, and follow after gentleness, O son of Luga.

(And the son of Luga, it is written, heeded these counsels, and gave up his bad ways, and he became one of the best of Finn\'s men.)

\"These are the things that were dear to Finn--- The din of battle,
the banquet\'s glee, The bay of his hounds through the rough glen ringing,
And the blackbird singing in Letter Lee,
The shingle grinding along the shore, When they dragged his war-boats down to sea,
The dawn wind whistling his spears among, And the magic song of his minstrels three.\"

..........................Ossian

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