The Saga of Vanadís, Völva and Valkyrja

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Table of contents Abstract 4 Prolog
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Abstract What we call history, is o
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I believe that if we could truly re
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patriarchal, scientific, materialis
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y the last name. When referring to
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that this web can be a saga or even
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the old manuscripts. There is Herma
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have drifted away from the descendi
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took me a long time to realize that
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awake and my dreams always bring me
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the world of today, from the perspe
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Islandic spegill (mirror). Now it u
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Some had mixed blood, like Helgi ma
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men of the church. Jón Hákonarson
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This great work was therefore known
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poems and even one of the greatest
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that, especially if we assume that
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and fractions of myths must sometim
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mirror my ideas. Snorri says in his
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interpreted from a patriarchal poin
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In 1994 Ralph Metzner publishes his
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difference in cultures living not s
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I saw the cover unfolded, the sheer
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and feminine knowledge with all its
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we might find in all the myths and
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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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Page 185 and 186: also reflects Freyja, as well as Ge
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Page 189 and 190: Auður invited everyone to the wedd
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Page 201 and 202: Dalley, Stephanie. 1989. Myths from
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Page 209 and 210: Forneskja used to mean old knowledg
Page 211 and 212: Hildisvíni is a synonym for boars
Page 213 and 214: Skáldskaparmál ch. 56, men is há
Page 215 and 216: Svíþjóð means the ‘nation’
Page 217 and 218: Appendix 2 - From Valkyrjur to Valg
Page 219 and 220: 14 Dís and día (feminine, singula
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Page 223 and 224: Valgerðr > Valgerður), is a later
Page 225: than men. Vís means both ‘wise
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