The Saga of Vanadís, Völva and Valkyrja

eaction to the name Auður was therefore that it had to do with her story, - and it may
have -, but it felt strange that it should be linked to a male giant in the dream, since I had
no knowledge of the word used as a man’s name. As I read Gylfaginning the ice of
oblivion melted and another Auður appeared from the great ocean and into my full
consciousness.
Nörfi eða Narfi hét jötunn er byggði í Jötunheimum. Hann átti dóttur er Nótt hét. Hún var svört og
dökk sem hún átti ætt til. Hún var gift þeim manni er Naglfari hét. Þeirra sonur hét Auður .(Snorra
Edda, Gylfaginning, ch. 10)
Nörfi or Narfi 44 was the name of a giant, who lived in Jötunheimar. He had a daughter named Nótt
(Night). She was black and dark as her kin. She was given to the man called Naglfari 45 . Their son
was Auður.
It feels so magical, when memory is re-collected like that. Never had I heard of
this giant, or so I thought, never had I heard of the myth of Nótt and her three children,
begotten with three men. There was the son Auður begotten with Narfi. Then there was
the daughter Jörð (Earth), begotten with Annar (Another or Second), but Annar is also
another name for Auður 46 , which could suggest that Auður/Annar was Nótt’s son/lover.
The third was Dagur (Day), a son begotten with Dellingur (Shining), who could be the
Sun.
As I continued my dreaming, the giant Auður, son of Nótt, kept shaking my earth.
As I looked into the word auður, and found its feminine roots, another well of
remembrance was opened. I felt I had finally found a word that expressed the essence of
the divine, as I experience her/him. Part of what the dream was telling me was that what
is masculine and what is feminine is forever interchangeable and interchanging, but the
essence of auður shines through. If we look into the well of remembrance, deeply enough,
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