- Page 1: The Saga of Vanadís, Völva and Va
- Page 5 and 6: Abstract What we call history, is o
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- Page 19 and 20: took me a long time to realize that
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- Page 25 and 26: Islandic spegill (mirror). Now it u
- Page 27 and 28: Some had mixed blood, like Helgi ma
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she is the chooser of the slain, a
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spinners or scorers of time and des
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This is the story of the creation o
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Þær lög lögðu þær líf kuru
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Freyja - the first 3. Remembering V
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Vanir and Æsir According to Snorri
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(Ásgeir B. Magnússon, 1989), and
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that’s another story. In the lite
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This is the Heimskringla version of
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the fruits of the earth. He gives p
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Akkad, a position previously held b
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I don’t assume that the Vanadís
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1961), in common with Freyja. In Eg
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Jörð - Earth - Nerthus Freyja’s
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athing ritual seems to be a part of
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all she could think of to prevent t
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most ancient matrifocal societies,
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is thought to be among the oldest E
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urial site on the banks of the Danu
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all these myths, and it is displaye
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(1995, p. 63) and some others (Titc
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emembrance of the first religious o
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In the Codex Regius it does not say
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Vanir was only the first war for th
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the Æsir, but Gullveig lived. Much
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where Loki and Heimdallur fight ove
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it be that Freyja was not willing t
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the Æsir, who look upon women and
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Hyndluljóð - the descent Vaki mæ
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north. We know that the völvur wer
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ótti -‘fear’. A psychological
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Where the threads of these myths of
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The bulls of Gefjun Freyja’s conn
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The plow is a well-known phallic-sy
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or a hybrid bull/man, sometimes a m
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Bird Goddess Symbols are a means of
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her owl and snake, as well as her s
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Fólkvangr er inn níundi, en þar
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life grows each year. Probably orig
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I am fully aware that kyrja in valk
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Viðólfa - the first one Eru völu
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From the sea under the tree emerged
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staff emphasizes her connection to
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(Gimbutas, 2001, pp.144, 187, 200).
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Seiður - singing magic Valdi henni
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seen as an indication of its import
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a prerequisite for the ‘seeing’
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In the poem Baldurs draumar Óðinn
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Þorbjörg lítilvölva - the ninth
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the ability to affect persons and h
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Although most of the people present
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Heiður is invited to a farm in Nor
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protective shield to the warrior. T
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seiður are old and monstrous, othe
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Grímnismál the valkyrjur are in t
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walls of Catal Hüyük, who also se
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men were really twelve women, weavi
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The valkyrja and the hero Hervör a
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semi-mythic being, who travels in o
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other immediately, and he is eager
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There is hardly any indication of B
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the breast of the Underworld, into
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This saga of Áslaug/Kráka was con
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Part three 6. Three Times Burned -
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According to Snorri, Þorgerður wa
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temple, where Þór resides, sittin
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also reflects Freyja, as well as Ge
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three versions of the threefold dea
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Auður invited everyone to the wedd
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as well as in nature, in the form o
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Goddess, away from me. For the mome
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Vituð ér enn -eða hvað? - the r
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live to see ‘ár og friður’, p
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The steps of Auður are heavy, shak
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Dalley, Stephanie. 1989. Myths from
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Matthews, Caitlín. 1992. Sophia, G
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Press Hollander Lee M. 1962. The Po
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Álfur (plural álfar) is a name us
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Forneskja used to mean old knowledg
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Hildisvíni is a synonym for boars
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Skáldskaparmál ch. 56, men is há
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Svíþjóð means the ‘nation’
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Appendix 2 - From Valkyrjur to Valg
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14 Dís and día (feminine, singula
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today, considered a real tribe by m
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Valgerðr > Valgerður), is a later
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than men. Vís means both ‘wise