Welcome to Wordfruma Press, my publishing imprint.

On this website, you’ll find detailed information about my published and forthcoming books.


Winifred Hodge Rose


My work and publications are focused on Heathen philosophy, spirituality, and religion.  Any practice of religion or spirituality is founded upon philosophy, whether it is stated as such, or unstated. Philosophy as traditionally practiced in ancient cultures around the world included the following domains of inquiry:

  • Cosmology (an understanding of what the world / cosmos is and how it works)

  • Cosmogony (how this cosmos originated)

  • Mythology and Theology (tales and teachings about the Deities and other spiritual beings, their actions and natures)

  • Ethics (how humans should behave, interact with each other, and form societies),

  • Natural Philosophy (how the world of Nature works, and how to work with it)

  • Psychology (the science of the soul or psyche, the ‘what, how, and why’ of spiritual, mental, emotional aspects of humans)

. . . and many other avenues of inquiry. For philosophers of any time and any place in the world, everything is grist for the mill of the mind!

We as humans can’t live any sort of organized life at all, neither inner life nor outer life, without basing it on philosophy: on our understanding of how and why the world and people and unseen forces operate the way they do, and how we choose to deal with the results and live our own lives.

We are used to thinking of ‘philosophy’ as something expressed through intellectual essays and lectures. But philosophy, as I described it above, can and is developed and expressed through many other media as well, including poetry, tales, songs, art in all its forms, folklore, laws, customs, and traditions.

Like all other peoples and cultures of the world, the ancient Heathen cultures had their own world-views and underlying philosophies, and many of these understandings seem very worthy of exploration for me and other modern Heathens.  This is the focus of the work that I publish through Wordfruma Press.

If you’d like to read more of my articles and other writings, you’re welcome to drop by my website “Heathen Soul Lore, Heathen Philosophy, and More.” On my homepage there, you can read more about the background and intentions of my Heathen study and writing. Click on the book covers below to find descriptions, reviews, and tables of contents for each of my published books, as well as links to purchase the various print and electronic formats.


Published Works


Heathen Soul Lore Foundations

Ancient and Modern Germanic Pagan Concepts of the Souls, 2021 

(575 pages) 

Heathen Soul Lore

A Personal Approach, 2022 

(423 pages)

Mani the Measurer’s 2024 Moon Calendar

Moon calendar and workbook for in-depth heathen soul lore work, 2024

(311 pages)

Oaths, Shild, Frith, Luck & Wyrd

Five Essays Exploring Heathen Ethical Concepts and their Use Today, 2022 

(164 pages)

Wandering on Heathen Ways

Writings on Heathen Holy Ones, Wights, and Spiritual Practice, 2023 

(523 pages)

Idunn’s Trees: A New Tale of the Norse Goddess Idunn

Children’s illustrated story and activity book, 2022 

(52 pages)

Celebrating Heathen Yule

Ideas for celebrating Yuletide, a blot for Mothers-Night and Yule, and words for heathen Yule songs, 2023

(Booklet, 45 pages)

Mothers-Night Blot and Yule Celebration

With heathen Yule songs, 2022 

(Booklet, 28 pages)