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Utgardhr (uht-gardhr): On the horizontal map, the ring of the elemental worlds outside Midgardhr.<br />

Valkyrja (Val-kir-ya, valkyrie): “Chooser of the slain”; the perfected self of a worshipper of Odhinn and the link<br />

between Odhinn and the individual soul.<br />

Vanir: Earth/water deities of fertility, death, and hidden wisdom.<br />

Vargr: Outlaw, wolf.<br />

Ve: Consecrated in the sense of being utterly separated from the mundane world; tabu.<br />

Vertical Model: Nine Worlds arranged according to energy level into Asgardhr (highest), Midgardhr and the<br />

elemental worlds (Jotunheimr, Muspellheimr, Vanheimr, and Nfflheimr), and Hel (lowest).<br />

Vitki: Runic magician.<br />

Widdershins: Against the course of the sun; counterclockwise; used to draw up power from the earth and the worlds<br />

below.<br />

Wyrm: Serpent or dragon.<br />

Yggdrasil: “Ygg’s (Odhinn’s) steed”; the World-Tree, holding the three vertical realms of Asgardhr/Midgardhr/Hel<br />

and the Nine orlds together.<br />

Ymir (Uem-ir): “Roarer”; the proto-etin created by the first meeting of fire and ice in Ginnungagap, from whom all<br />

the jotun-kind (and most of the gods) descend. Odhimi and his brothers/hypostases Vili (will) and Ve (holiness)<br />

slew Ymir and made the sea from his blood, the earth from his body, and the vault of the sky from his skull.<br />

Younger Futhark: The sixteen-rune futhark of the Viking Age.<br />

Pronunciation Guide<br />

RUNE-NAMES:<br />

The rune—names given here are in Proto—Germanic. Pronunciation is relatively simple: there are only five<br />

vowel sounds, and the consonants, with the exceptions below, are as in Modern English.<br />

a — as in “father”<br />

e — ay, as in “day”<br />

i — ee, as in “speed”<br />

o — as in “home”<br />

u — 00, as in moon<br />

dh — a soft th, as in “leather”<br />

g — always hard, as in “give”<br />

h — may be heavily aspirated, almost as a ch<br />

j —always pronounced as y<br />

k — always a hard sound; no soft c exists<br />

r — trilled<br />

th — as in “thorn”<br />

z — always buzzed, halfway between an r and a z<br />

OLD NORSE<br />

a — as in “law”<br />

á — as in “father”<br />

e — as i in “gin”<br />

é — as ay in “day”<br />

i— as in “is”<br />

í — ee as in “speed”<br />

o — as in “omit”<br />

ó — as in “owe”<br />

ø, ö — as in “not”<br />

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