Acknowledgements

Last updated October 28, 2026

The software, fonts, data and texts behind Heathen Heritage, and the licences they come with.

1. Software

  • Astronomy Engine by Don Cross (MIT licence): Moon phases, planet positions, eclipses and the astronomy behind the charts. Its licence notice is kept in the file we serve.
  • QR Code Generator by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT licence): draws the QR code for setting up two-step sign-in in our admin panel. Its licence notice is kept in the file we serve.
  • Anthropic PHP SDK (MIT licence), the library our server uses to talk to the AI service.
  • Guzzle (guzzlehttp/guzzle, promises, psr7), PHP-HTTP Discovery, PSR HTTP interfaces (psr/http-client, http-factory, http-message), getallheaders, Standard Webhooks and the Symfony deprecation-contracts and polyfill-php80 packages: all under the MIT licence, used on our server.
  • The rest of the Site’s code is our own.

2. Fonts

  • Cinzel by Natanael Gama and the Cinzel Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (openfontlicense.org).
  • Alata, copyright 2016 The Alata Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Both are served from our own server. We do not load fonts from another company’s servers.

3. Data and services

  • GeoNames geographical database (cities of 1,000 people or more), used for birthplace and place search, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. We loaded a copy onto our own server and do not change its meaning.
  • Crystal Encyclopedia photos are from Wikimedia Commons. Each photo is credited under it with its photographer and licence (mostly Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike; some are in the public domain), with a link to its page on Commons. We made smaller copies and changed nothing else. Where Commons has no photo of the exact stone, a similar stone is shown and the caption says so.
  • Claude, a model from Anthropic, PBC, writes up readings from the facts and descriptions we give it (see the Disclaimer).
  • Stripe handles payments, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that sign-ups are made by people, and Cal.com books One-On-One sessions. The names and marks are theirs.

4. Texts in the Lorebook

  • Hávamál: the stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation of the Elder Edda, which is in the public domain. We used the text on D. L. Ashliman’s online edition and compared it with a scan of the book.
  • Völuspá, Grímnismál and other Eddic poems; Gylfaginning: quotations are from Benjamin Thorpe’s Elder Edda translation and from the Younger Edda as translated in the Norroena Society edition (London, 1906), both in the public domain.
  • Background text: some background and context in the Lorebook is summarized from articles on English Wikipedia, whose text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence; the articles’ page histories list their authors. Such text is a secondary summary, not a scholarly source.
  • Everything else in the Lorebook, including the paraphrases and the modern readings, was written for this Site. Where it says so, a reference marked “verified” has been checked against the source named.

5. Images

  • The Yggdrasil map in the Lorebook is an illustration made with an AI image tool. It is interpretive and is not a historical map.
  • If you own artwork, a photograph, an animation, a sound or other material that you believe appears on the Site without your permission, or that needs a credit we have not given, email [email protected] with a link and we will look at it promptly (see also “Copyright complaints” in the Terms of Service).

6. Thank you

To everyone who builds and shares open tools, records, scholarship and public-domain translations: thank you. Questions about a credit or a licence: [email protected].