The Saga of Vanadís, Völva and Valkyrja

that this web can be a saga or even a seiður for those who want to remember, those who
still can remember that they are born of woman, those seeking female images of the
divine.
To me this process has been inevitable, my woman’s way of working with
knowledge can be no other. Like my ancestress Auður djúpúðga 10 who sought a new land
for her descendants and found the divine in the hills of that land and in the waves of the
sea, I seek my auður in the spirit born out of those hills, out of the sea surrounding this
land, out of nature, my ancestry, and the álfar and huldufólk 11 (the hidden people), the
dreaming nature. I seek it in the transforming conversations, in the darkness and in my
womanness, thus seeking to balance the logic of the analyzed and written word.
My epistemology, my way of knowing, is that of the dancing, dreaming, weaving,
winged womb in loving embrace with the brain. It may be defined as the epistemology of
the sacred marriage of the womb and brain, the egg and the seed or the Goddess and her
lover. It is the epistemology of auður. I dance with the divine Vanadís and her gyðjur,
the völva and the valkyrja. I move with örlög woven by the nornir, from feminist,
mythical and mythological, historical, literary, etymological, archaeological, sociological,
psychological, genealogical, spiritual, philosophical, political, lyrical, sacred, erotic and
very personal emotional points of view.
Acknowledgements and sources
Many have written about Islandic/Norse mythology before me. The old poetry,
myths and sagas of Æsir and Vanir 12 , jötnar, dvergar (dwarfs), valkyrjur 13 and dísir 14 ,
heroes and heroines, have attracted, inspired and outwitted great scholars from all around
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