In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery. They are also referred to with many...

Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...

mention the seeress prophesying from a raised platform, while Eiríks saga rauða also mentions the use of a wand. Some insight into Germanic religion can...

Γάννα) was a Germanic seeress (also called priestess), of the Semnoni tribe, who succeeded the seeress Veleda as the leader of a Germanic alliance in rebellion...

and Legend. Völuspá (Wise-woman's prophecy, The Prophecy of the Seeress, The Seeress's Prophecy) Hávamál (The Ballad of the High One, The Sayings of Hár...

Gambara is a Germanic wise woman (also called priestess or seeress) who appears in several sources from the 8th to 12th centuries. The legend is about...

of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples...

Edda poem Völuspá, the seeress reciting the poem states that Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin once found Ask and Embla on land. The seeress says that the two were...

(also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá, or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It dates back to the tenth...

Crystal gazing Séance Secret Chiefs Seer stone (Latter Day Saints) Seeress (Germanic) Seidr (Old Norse) Selkie (Celtic & Norse) Servitor (chaos magic)...

the Hebrides and the Northern Isles), Greenland, and Canada. Their North Germanic language, Old Norse, became the precursor to present-day Scandinavian languages...

North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. The language belongs to the North Germanic branch...

that became known as Normandy, they originally spoke Old Norse, a North Germanic language. Over time, they came to live among the local Gallo-Romance-speaking...

Aurinia or Albrinia are some of the forms of the name of a probable Germanic seeress who would have lived in the late 1st century BC or in the early 1st...

as Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages....

is the case from the earliest epigraphic evidence of the Roman to the Germanic Iron Age, with non-linguistic inscriptions and the alu word. An erilaz...

A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history; however...

Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird...

Volva may refer to: Völva, one of various Old Norse terms for a North Germanic seeress Volva (gastropod), a genus of sea snails Volva (mycology), a cup-like...

Veleda (fl. AD 69–84) was seeress of the Bructeri, a Germanic people who achieved some prominence during the Batavian rebellion of AD 69–70, headed by...

of the Chatti (Latin: Chatta mulier), or the Chattian seeress, is an alleged Germanic seeress of the Chattian tribe who according to Suetonius prophesied...

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Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird...

Horapollo, 5th-century Egyptian pagan writer Historic Germanic pagans: Albruna, Germanic seeress, prophetess, soothsayer Aoric, Gothic pagan Arbogast (died...

/ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, they are often contrasted with gods (the...

'magic staff protection' (Greek: Βαλουβουργ), was a second century Germanic seeress (sorceress, priestess) from the Semnonian tribe whose existence was...

Norse mythology, Gróa (possibly from Old Norse "growing") is a völva (seeress) and practitioner of seiðr. She is the wife of Aurvandil the Bold. Groa...

little evidence of Germanic priestesses from the time of Tacitus to the era of conversion (Njáls saga). If the functions of seeress and priestess are not...

the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva (a shamanic seeress) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to...

craft. A woman practicing seiðr would sometimes be called völva, meaning seeress. She would also sometimes be described as spá-kona or seið-kona, meaning...