This is not a separate work: it is the Anti-Defamation League's own catalogue entry for the valknot in its "Hate on Display" Hate Symbols Database, one entry in the same continuously maintained institutional catalogue this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that database rather than standing beside it, so citing this entry alongside the general Hate Symbols Database record, or alongside another of its entries, is one institutional voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the database's own limit: an advocacy organization's working catalogue for identifying a symbol's adoption by extremist movements, not a neutral academic history of the symbol. Use it for whether the valknot is currently catalogued as a hate symbol and the ADL's own stated account of its appropriation by racist Odinist groups; a claim about the symbol's life in genuine Norse funerary art and its association with Odin centuries before that appropriation needs a source produced outside this database.
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Citation
AuthorAnti-Defamation League
PublisherAnti-Defamation League
URLhttps://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/valknot
Source Typereference-database
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
NotesCatalogues the appropriation of the valknut by racist Odinists and states in the same entry that non-racist pagans use the symbol and that context must be examined. Cited for both halves, never one.
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This source names Norse directly: "about the symbol's life in genuine Norse funerary art and its association with Odin centuries before that appropriation needs a source produced outside this database."
Odin, Deities This source names Odin directly: "account of its appropriation by racist Odinist groups; a claim about the symbol's life in genuine Norse funerary art and its association with Odin centuries before that appropriation needs a source..."
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Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 connected.
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