I think if you’re pulling from things like folk traditions that did manage to survive to the modern day (however changed or transformed), sure, that’s very true… but if you’re talking about trying to be just like the Norse in the Viking age or like the pre-Christian Celts, then not so much, no. That’s basically what at least some of these neo-pagans are trying to claim, not a longer descent of culture that did indeed change over the centuries. The far right, neo-nazi ones do try to claim that they are fully resurrecting traditions of a long bygone era that we don’t fully understand and that they are the authentic practioners of it, because of some bullshit about their “pure viking blood”…
