Seidr
Traditional Northern European Magic
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3 of 7 volva / kjerringa med staven
Researching vardlokkr (songs or calls to lure nature spirits), Kari Tauring came across the Norwegian Folk Song, "Kjerringa med Staven," or "Dear Lady with a Staff." This children's song describes the traditions of the volva kona, living outside of community, talking to the goddess Frigg as the hare, and working with jotun energy (giants, primal nature energy).
Fuck Yeah Vikings & Celts!
The Lejre Freya Miniature - from the Late Iron Age. The Lejre miniatrue is dressed in A) a floor-lenght dress, B) with an apron, and C) with four bead strings on the chest - these are all stereotypically female attributes that never occur on depictions of men. The dress copies the "Byzantine" empress' dress with the hanging frontal piece
Bird-like mask used as a mount for the top of a staff. In Viking art the bird motif is often associated with Odin. Country of Origin: Sweden. Culture: Pre-Viking. Date/Period: Late Bronze Age. Place of Origin: Glasbacka. Material Size: bronze, h = c.7cms. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm . Location: 18.
The Absent Presence
A hörgr (Old Norse, plural hörgar) or hearg (Old English) was a type of religious building or altar possibly consisting of a heap of stones, used in Norse paganism. Hörgar are attested in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, sagas, in the poetry of skalds, the Old English poem Beowulf, and in various place names, often in connection with Germanic deities.
