TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

Lich: Earthly body.
Ljosalfar (lyos-al-far): Light elves.
Madhr (madhr): Old Norse for ~ Used in this book as a suffix to denote gender (seidhmadhr, spamadhr, etc.).
Mead: A favorite drink of the Northern European peoples, particularly for magical or religious purposes. Brewed
from honey and water. It is seldom commercially available in America, but home-brewing shops generally carry
books with mead receipes and the necessary items for making it.
Midgardhr (mid-gardhr): The Middle Enclosure; the world of humankind; the middle point on Yggdrasil.
Mimir (Mih-mir): The proto-etin who keeps Mimir’s Well, holder of all that has ever existed; Odhinn’s mother’s
brother.
Mind: Consciousness; encompasses hugr (thought) and minni (memory, including ancestral memory and collective
unconscious).
Minni (mihn-ni): memory; right-brain, etc.; see Mind.
Muspellheimr: World of primal fire.
Need-Fire: Fire kindled directly from wood without flint by friction.
Nidhing Pole: “Pole of insult.” A pole with a horse’s head or carving of the victim in an obscene posture, used for
serious insult and damaging curses. One was put up by an Asatru group in Iceland during the summit conference
in Rekjavik as a protest against nuclear arms.
Norns: The embodiments of orlog and causality. There are three Norns, Urdhr (that-which-is), Verdhandi (thatwhich-is-becoming),
and Skuld (that-which-should-be) who shape the turnings of Wyrd through the worlds. Each
person is also said to have his or her own norns who bring his or her personal weird. These may be related to or
identical with the disir and valkryja, who also embody personal orlog.
Odhr (odhr): Inspiration, fury; given to humankind by Odhinn’s brother Hoenir. Cognate to Modern German Wut
and English wood (used archaicly to mean madness).
Odhroerir (odh-ruh-rir): The mead of poetry, stolen by Odhinn. Actually three cauldrons—Odhroerir, Son, and
Bodhn.
Oend: Breath of life, given to humankind by Odhinn.
Orlog (ahr-lahg): The primal layer of wyrd which determines what shall become and be.
Outdweller: Inhabitant of the utangardhs; uncanny wight.
Recels (reh-kels): Incense.
Sax: Ritual knife.
Seidhr (saydhr): Witchcraft, shamanic travelling, speaking with spirits, visionary practices.
Sleipnir (Slayp-near): Odhinn’s gray eight-legged horse, child of Loki and a giant stallion, on which Odhinn rides
through the worlds.
Solarhringar: Ring of the sun; divided into aettir.
Soul: All non-physical components of a being.
Spakona, Spamadhr: Spae-wife, spae-man. A visionary seer.
Stadhagaldr (stah-dha-galdr): The meditational practice of standing in a rune’s shape and intoning its name.
Developed by German Armanen magicians and presented in English by Edred Thorsson. The stadha (p1.
stodhur) is the physical position.
Stave: A rune’s letter shape; literally a staff or stick such as the runes were originally carved into. Also used
generally to speak of runes themselves, as in “staves of healing,” “mighty staves,” etc.
Structural Runic Relationships: Relationships between runes as determined by their place within the futhark order
and/or aettir.
Svartalfar: Black elves (dwarves).
Taufr (tawfr): Talisman (with runes written on it).
Teutonic: See Germanic.
Thurse: Unintelligent personification of brute force.
Troll: General term for ill-willing uncanny wight (though some are helpful to humans).
Ur- (er): Mod. German; a prefix meaning proto- or original. Utangardhs (uht-an-gardhs): Wild/magical/unordered
space; outside of human society.
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