What the Hundred Is For

Heathenry is, at heart, something done together. But many of us are still scattered: a lone troth-keeper in one shire, a small hearth of two or three friends in another, a forming Ferscipe in a third. The Hundred exists so that none of us has to walk this road alone while we wait for a local fellowship to grow up around us.

The Brytenlond Hundred gathers folk from across Britain at least once a year for shared bléot and symbel — a chance to meet face to face, to honour the gods together, and to put faces to the names from our forums and feeds. Between those gatherings, the Hundred helps connect folk who live near one another, supports new hearths as they form, and walks alongside small groups taking their first steps toward becoming a full Ferscipe in their own right.

Of the Name

A hundred was once the working heart of every English shire: a gathering of free folk for law, for landweard, and for the keeping of the holy tides. The institution is older than England herself, carried across the sea by our Anglo-Saxon forebears from the wider continental Germanic world, where it was known as the centena. We take the name up afresh as a community of friends bound by shared troth.

Brytenlond — “broad land,” the Old English name for this island — names the country in which we gather and the soil whose wights and ways we honour.

What We Stand For

We honour Ing, the forefather from whom our folk take their name, and the wider company of Anglo-Saxon gods — Woden, Thunor, Tiw, Frige, and their kin. We keep faith with our ancestors and with the wights of the land beneath our feet. We mark the turning of the year as the old folk did.

Our lore comes from genuine West Germanic sources: the Anglo-Saxon, Frankish, Frisian, and continental Germanic traditions. We do not borrow from outside our line.

How the Hundred Works

The Hundred is led by a Hundredes Ealdor, a regional steward whose task is to keep the rhythm of gathering, growth, and cooperation going across Britain. The Ealdor is not a boss over local leaders — Ferscipes and hearths run their own affairs. Theirs is a service role: to see that the wider community has a living centre even where local groups have not yet taken root, to keep track of who is where, to connect folk to one another, and to support new hearths as they form.

As local groups grow, they remain part of the Hundred — meeting monthly or as suits them, while still joining the wider region at the yearly moot.