A galdr (plural galdrar) or ġealdor (plural ġealdru) refers to a spell or incantation in Old Norse and Old English respectively; these were usually performed...
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induce an altered state of consciousness and visions, most notably seiðr and galdr, with the intent of gaining wisdom and advice from the deities. Many solitary...
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of legend and folklore and desired by practitioners of galdr. One such legend is when the galdr master Loftur Þorsteinsson (Galdra-Loftur) tried to acquire...
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Galdrabók, dating from the 17th century and later.[better source needed] Galdr Hex sign Runic magic ""Staves or magical signs" Galdrastafir - Strandagaldur...
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Galdor can refer to: Galdr, a magical song in some Germanic languages. Galdor, the father of Húrin in The Silmarillion. This disambiguation page lists...
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Hrafnagaldr Óðins (redirect from Raven galdr)
Hrafnagaldr Óðins ("Odin's raven-galdr") or Forspjallsljóð ("prelude poem") is an Icelandic poem in the style of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved only...
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corresponding Old English term was gealdor or galdor, "song, spell", cognate to ON galdr. The weakened sense "delight" (compare the same development of "charm")...
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head, becoming stuck. To remove it, he went to the völva Gróa, who began a galdr to loosen it. While she was singing, Thor told her that he had carried her...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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embalmed it with herbs so that it would not rot, and spoke charms [Old Norse galdr] over it", which imbued the head with the ability to answer Odin and "tell...
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the element galdr ("incantation"), with the names galdrakonur ("galdr women"), galdrakerling ("old galdr woman") and galdrasnót ("galdr lady"). In addition...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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and elsewhere, Odin is particularly associated with the runes and with galdr. Charms, often associated with the runes, were a central part of the treatment...
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brought [Steinunn] to him by use of magic" by reciting magic chants and galdr until she came to him and he "lay with her." The fact that Steinunn had...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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the dökkálfar in the late Old Norse poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins ("Odin's Raven-galdr"), stanza 25. As the concept is only recorded in Gylfaginning and the late...
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psychological borders'. Seiðr involved the incantation of spells (galdrar, sg. galdr). Practitioners may have been religious leaders of the Viking community...
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parish vicar Hr. Povel. The vicar reportedly, in his desperation, sang a galdr song against the pirate ship containing his son. This was seen as the reason...
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the Galdr, but she then secretly gives birth to a girl. Orin hides the children (Urlan and Ursula), and they grow up in seclusion, with the Galdr unaware...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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Florida Water Flying ointment Folk belief Four-leaf clover Fortune-telling Galdr (Old Norse) Gematria, see also Numerology Geomancy Geomantic figures Ghouls...
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chanting the poem aloud results in a "marvellously incantatory effect". Galdr Hávamál Mímir Merseburg Incantations Gordon (1962:92–93). Macleod (2006:127)...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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Galdrar (chanting) of the rune names of the Elder Futhark for ritual use. Galdr Germanic neopaganism Icelandic magical staves List of runestones Runic Gymnastics...
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begins to awaken Yune; Micaiah is forced to prematurely awaken her with the galdr of release. Yune's awakening also awakens the goddess of order Ashera. As...
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Icelander known as Galdra-Loftur for his supposed mastery of Old Norse sorcery (galdr). He was the subject of many folk sagas about his alleged magical performances...
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may represent some of the few remaining examples of pre-Christian ljoð or galdr, ritual verse chanted by the cult leaders, shamans or oracles of Norse Scandinavia...
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(shrine) Gothi Early Germanic calendars Runic magic Seeress (Germanic) Galdr Death in Norse paganism Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic...
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song, spell, charm' OE gealdor, OHG galtar ON galdr – From PGmc *galanan ('to shout, sing, chant'). See galdr for further discussion. *guđ(j)ōn 'priest'...
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