i greatly appreciate these videos so much. they’re exactly what i was looking for and you make things so easy to understand! i’m just curious, do you know of any resources that could give me information on the Seidr or Pre-Christianization Norse magic?

In the old testament left handed archers and fighters were made note of in the text could that have something to do with the hands?

@@noriwebb6599 Dr. Crawford has two videos on it: "Seiðr Magic and Gender" (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gsB2nrOS1MfKcqM.html) and "The Vǫlva (Norse Seeress) and Seiðr" (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/praAiseWnLm6m2Q.html) Probably the most extensive book I can recommend on it is Neil Price's "The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia" (www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-viking-way.html)-- it's a huge book, and well-sourced, including mention of where scholarly opinion is split or still being debated, so also a great reference for finding further resources and/or scholarly perspectives on the topic.

Wait England isn't Catholic anymore? Huh.

@@casthedemon it's anglican, since henry the XVIII, gas been a time already

I was thinking of Stargate Goauld and the metal symbols they pour onto the forehead of their Jaffa.

You are a very smart person.

Adds a lot of credence to the word berserker doesn't it!

@@wade4452 Pretty sure the word "berserker" comes from the old norse either for "without a shirt" or "bear-skin shirt wearer." It doesn't literally mean "someone who goes berserk," we have added that meaning much later.

@@northenby8288 Thank you.

I would imagine that - to the extent that this is documenting actual practice, as opposed to being wildly ornamented by the author's flights of fantasy, which is always iffy with medieval grimoires - that it's intended as preparation for a special occasion on which one anticipates an opportunity to gamble, not as a response to one suddenly arising.

@@logitimate It's a joke.

About that church stuff: a lot of old Norse "Viking" spiritual places were destroyed by Christians to build their own holy places upon them (church). So the connection with the spiritual place would still be there even it now has a church on it.

It's the placing of the dice under the altar cloth without them being noticed through 3 masses, that's the hard part. You might have to let the priest in on it, maybe promise the customary 10% off the top...

poetic indeed

sigil*** but yes

Yes

My thoughts exactly

Weather man said it would the day before😯 Magic🤣

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Could be stirring energy?

The standard medieval grimoire take is that they use those calls as an opportunity to try to seduce mortals in evil, to ruin their lives, or simply to kill them horribly. Hence why you need this grimoire, with its careful discussion of the elaborate precautions you must take, instead of just playing it by ear!

People tend to forget that pre-Reformation and the rise in literacy, the common folks understanding of Christian canon was highly dependent on how well they paid attention in church, and all the important rites were performed in Latin. So their actual grasp of the gospels was probably about as vague and iffy and mutated through folksy re-tellings away from church as whatever understanding remained of the old pre-Christian ways.

The same thing happened in some slavic countries where old pagan rituals are still practices (such as the Burning of Morena/Morana). There is also the invoking of Parom/Perun as a standin for "God Damnit" - the version used in my home country can be translated to "Render unto Perun" or "To Perun".

Since you pointed out this spiritual religious hybrid of Christianity and Norse mythology, and somebody below pointed out the same thing for more Eastern Europe, I wanted to add that really, Christianity and Catholicism, all of it's sects have adulterated the cultural religions and practices worldwide. With the later slave trade in Africa and the Conquering of North, Central, & South America, all of this tropical areas slavery farming plantation stuff, they force Catholicism onto the slaves, right? But they already had their own religion, obviously. It was Vodoun, commonly known today as Voodoo. So basically they renamed their spirits and deities after the Saints, so that in secret it would look like they were worshiping the saints, but they were still appealing to the deities of their own culture. And that is how Santeria and Candomblé came to exist. I don't remember the differences between those two offshoots, but I know they are different and I know that they both exist because of what I just explained. Today, those religions are still viewed as witchcraft by the larger judeo-christian and Muslim community, but at least those practitioners have the freedom to do so openly now/their religious freedom as well as personal freedom. What I was trying to point out is that not only has Christianity and it's related religions (not including Judaism... I've never heard of a Jew trying to convert someone) but yeah these evangelical or holy war type religions adulterated pretty much every deeply rooted cultural tradition that existed before it, except for Judaism. But, it seems that the damage to cultures' spiritual practices was most heavily weighed on ancient Europe and North Africa, as eventually Islam did to the Middle East as well. It's sad that it's hard to find information on these ancient practices and symbols but also it is great that even a part of that history has survived to today, despite everything. For me, learning this stuff is relevant bc I am working backwards from my Christian conditioning and like this symbol Helm of Awe, has attracted me since I saw it the first time, and I keep drawing it. So I'm researching it because it already is a mystic thing but knowing and understanding it's history will help know how to use it best. I'm not upset that it isn't necessarily Norse in origin, it is still a symbol used more than 100 years ago so to me it is still powerful. I keep drawing it on my left arm so it was interesting to learn the tie of the symbol to the left hand in particular.

Me too

I used to draw this in middle and high school. I would put it on everything I wrote back in the late 80's early 90's. I finally got it tattooed on my forearm.

@@jokkermaxx1271 thats awesome!

@@roseannebowes8857 Did you do it knowing that it was the symbol Ægishjálmur or did you just do it unknowingly? Maybe you have Norse ancestors in you. We the Vikings traveled 4 continents. More than anyone else over 1000 years ago. Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Not even the Greeks or Romans found four continents. They only found 3. Europe, Asia and Africa.

@@Dyrlingur I did it unknowingly! I've only found out what it was within the last year. I wouldn't be surprised if I did, I have very celtic ancestors.

Be the change you want to see

In the same channel 😅😅, just check it out, there are lessons from him

Its a large country. I would recommend going to Yellowstone, i think its closest you can get to magical landscape you can get to on earth.

It does help we’re as big as Europe😂

@@EasytheGoon that's my second dream land to visit, after South Africa (Savannas). Yosemite and Grand Teton also look amazing. And I know it's because USA is so so large, maybe that's the beauty of it. I live in Turkey, which has ridicilously amazing nature, I traveled in Europe a few times but my eyes are locked on America 😀

C'mon over! All welcome!

Aren’t you Turkish? I’d rather see Turkey. Wanna trade?

Sounds like german Wegweiser which means way sign...

@@dershogun6396 It means the way-indicator, or that which will show you the way. It is a cognate to the German Wegweiser obviously. It is meant as a magical symbol to help guide those who are lost.

It's only known from an 1800s book of magical sigils, with no indication whatsoever of it having any prior roots in Old Norse or pre-Christian times. I'm just mentioning this because it's become quite fashionable for Viking-LARPers and enthusiasts to claim it as a "viking symbol", when there is no evidence of that.

@@nakenmil I remember hearing this I thought in one of Mr Crawfords videos but I'm having trouble finding a source.

@@nakenmil Yup, there are a lot of Neo-Vikings getting the vegvisir tattoo not realising it was more than likely created 800 years after the Viking age.

Three is a significant number in Christian theology too

@@sarahgilbert8036 it has been significant sense old testament times.

So a Swede would find the English word “printing press” to be redundant? Skämtar bara.

Yahweh is probably ymir

@@loganodinson4661 eh I wouldn't say so. Yahweh really came out of left field and eventually consumed all the Canaanite gods, becoming conflated with El, and arguably the son of El. So Yahweh, when he was the leader of a Pantheon (which is arguable depending on who you'd ask back then) being conflated with EL, would put him in league with Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, Tyr, etc... Leader/king gods. Yahweh is basically the father, which is a motif seen with tribal sky gods and sun gods which is shared between Zeus, Jupiter (in the name) and Odin (his alias).

@@JBreaz hm interesting ive drawn a similar conclusion except.with the name Jehovah.

@@dylanlandry4996 Yahweh and Jehovah are two different modern(ish) spellings of the same old Hebrew name (יהוה‎). Consonants: In classical Latin "J" is pronounced the way "Y" is in modern English and "v" (when used as a consonant) is pronounced the way "W" is pronounced in modern English. So modern English YHWH is pronounced identical to classical Latin JHVH. Vowels: Old Hebrew didn't include vowels in written text, and ancient Jews took the commandment "You shall not take the name of YHWH your God in vain" so seriously that by now no one knows what vowels goes between the consonants...

@@JonSeverinsson yes as i have been taught that too however id like to take the names Iehouah one translation of this name im not to sure how to pronounce it correctly but i am guessing its pronounced AYe-eh-WHo-uh which kinda sounds like Hariuha a name of some.entity in a Danish coin perhaps there exists many variants of this kind of name? Jon can u guess where i am.getting this information from? Lol

I was wondering this too, or even if warriors possibly branded the symbol onto their forehead?