funny how you refer to it as a neo-pagan religion when it pre-dates christianity itself. Ill agree that wicca is neo-pagan. and many others. But i would say that Asatru is beyond christianity. Its mandates on sociaty are ethicaly based, rather than moraly based. Leaving a much larger breathing room for honest worshipers of other religions. (notice i said honest, i don't view Mormonism as honest) Tell me which is better, to follow a religion that tells you to be co-dependant on your god, or one that tells you to become strong in your own right and to then ask only for guidance with said strength.
I would call it neo-Pagan for the simple reason that its been dead for many centuries and has only been ressurrected in the late 20th century by the Baby Boom generation (in Iceland, in this case) at the same time Neo-Paganism and the New Age movemnet was on the rise in North America, especially in northern California. Your religion that you say is "beyond Christianity" is an artifact of the late sixties and early seventies.
I do realize that the originators of Norse Neo-Paganism have apparanty done a great deal of study of what we have of ancient Nordic religious texts (which, beginning with the Edda (not the Elder, which does not exist), are not
that old, in an attempt to accuately revive the original cults. The fact of the matter remains, however, that the various cultic forms of worship known to the ancient Norse are long dead and the texts we have of their myths, stories, and cosmogeny are not such that the forms of worship-the cultus-can be restored in any but (like Wicca) a very eclectic way.
As to your claim that such religion is older than Christianity, if by that you mean historic sectarian Christianity, you are probably correct. If you are making this claim with regard to the LDS church, you are gravely mistaken. The gospel of Jesus Christ has been on the earth since Adam and through a number of dispensation down to the present. In this sense, there is no older religion than "Christianity" if by that you mean the pure gospel as taught in in place or time of the world's history.
Indeed, ancient Norse mythology contains a number of motifs and symbols that, along with virtually every other ancient religoin of any substance, connects it clearly to a very ancient original religion from which virtually all the great religious systems, including ancient Norse religion, owe their existence. That original primal religion, I would argue, was the gospel as first given to Adam and handed down through Noah.
Its interesting that both Masonry and Wicca make the same claim about being "the original" religion of earths's people. From a LDS standpoint, the "Christian Era" is a misguided concept. Christianity did not begin with Jesus (as Paul clearly points out in his own writings).