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with Freyja, as Nerthus' wagon was drawn by kine. Milk is, obviously, a source of strength and vital
power (see uruz). The horns of cows were decorated and adorned with gold and are still decked with
flowers and ribbons today in Germanic areas.
Tame cattle are spoken of further under fehu, the aurochs under uruz.
DEER
The stag is the fylgja of a noble man or king. Helgi Hundingsbana is compared to the stag towering above
all the other forest animals.8 rt is holy to Freyr. Stag's antlers are put up, as at Heorot, to hallow a place
to him and call upon h is protection. After the loss of his sword, Freyr fought with the horn of a hart.
According to one version of the Sigurdhr story, the hero was nursed by a hind in the woods. To the
dying Fafflir, he names himself "Stag" (or "noble animal").9 He also appears as a stag in a dream, it being
his animal fetch.
Four harts gnaw at the bark of the World-Tree; these embody the entropic forces of earthly nature.
The stag often leads the one who follows it to a magical place or to a vision, and it is not
uncommon for otherworldly beings to take the shapes of deer in order to lure a hunter onward.
EAGLE
The eagle is the greatest of birds. An eagle sits at the top of the World-Tree. The eye of the eagle is the
far-sighted, piercing, wise eye of the Teutonic hero, and the eagles scream at the hero's birth.11 In the
hidden lore of the Teutonic people, the eagle is the bird embodying the noble one, the one who has
fulfilled her/his spiritual potential. It is associated with jera,12 being in fact this rune in its highest form.
As the transformation of that which is hidden in earth to that which flies forth into the heavens as their
ruler-the noblest bird-jera is the upward spiral of the eagle's path. This may be seen in the story of
Odhroerir, in which Odhinn brings the mead forth from inside the mountain and carries it back to
Valhalla as an eagle.
The winds are often embodied as an eagle: Hraesvelg (Corpse-gulper), an etin in eagle's shape, sits
at the end of the world and the beating of his wings Mows forth all the winds.~3 Shetlanders are said to
call forth the storm wind as a great eagle. ~
The eagle is a bird of Odhinn, and his followers sometimes made sacrifices to him by the carving
of the blood-eagle.
The falcon shares many characteristics with the eagle, though it is usually feminine, whereas the
eagle is most often shown as masculine.
HORSE
The horse is associated especially with the worship of Freyr and of Odhinn. The god may take up
residence in the body of a horse, as is hinted at by the Freyfaxi (Frey-mane) of the Vatnsdaelasaga, which
was worshipped by its owner, and that of Hrafnkell, which was hallowed to the god and which its slayers
had to hood before pushing it over a cliff as a sorcerer would be hooded, in order to avoid the magic of
his gaze. Horses were very often sacrificed, and the eating of horseflesh was the mark of a heathen, which
is why people of northern Christian countries have been brainwashed to react to the thought of eating
horse with revulsion. The phallus of the horse was especially holy. There is a story of one family which
preserved this organ with onions and herbs, keeping it wrapped with a linen cloth in a chest and bringing
it forth every evening to pass it around the people in the house. It was affectionately called Volsi, and
each person who held it spoke a verse ending with the refrain "May Mornir receive this sacrifice."15
Mornir is thought to be the name of a giant-woman, comparable to Gerdhr or Skadhi; arguments to the
contrary seem rather forced.
The horse's head is put up on or carved on a stake to make a nidhing-pole (pole of insult), which is
used for curses and political criticism. Horses' heads are carved on the gables of the roof in Lower Saxony
or buried in a barn for the sake of warding.16
In its oldest form, the horse is a solar animal. Its mane seems like the rays of the sun, and it is the
beast which draws the wain of the sun across the sky (see raidho).
As the horse of Odhinn, it is the bearer of the dead, and misshapen horses or grays were often
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