Yeah, on reading further, Neil Price says it's "a wooden bucket with an iron handle and iron nails around the base. Roughly 30 cm high, the bucket stood on the floor of the chamber at the mid-point of the south long wall. The bucket's handle was standing vertically, resting against the shaft of the staff" (The Viking Way, Uppsala 2002, p. 140). Interesting, but not a drum.

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Sorry, in the video where you say the vanir have a "lower threshold" for sexual shame to explain Freya's connection to seithr, is that a mispeak or just ambiguous?

Aww, I was actually a little disappointed by this errata, because lately I've been looking into the history of frame drums used in different cultures and it looks like the majority of frame drum players were women back in the day, at least in the MENA, Southern European and Near Orient regions. It would have been cool to discover that that used to be the case in viking age Scandinavia as well.

Neil Price also writes "No trace of drums have ever been found in Norse archaeological context, nor anything that might resemble a drum-hammer or beater " I was kinda disappointed to here you say something like that. But I can remove my dislike now :) (though I disagree with you on more points than just this)

Are there any articles written on this and where would I find them? Also, what archeological group did this? I'd like to read more on it. Thank You

@@danscalone8110 Here is an article in English from the Danish National Museum. Unfortunately, it isn't quite new so it doesn't mention the newly found fitting from the other fortress. What I called a hollow buckle is apparently called a box brooch: en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/a-seeress-from-fyrkat/. Here is an abridged article from a site called sciencenordic.com which I found on Facebook. It mentions the new fitting: m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2483132741716379&id=129784597051217. Interesting, isn't it? As far as I know a group of archaeologists from the University of Århus led by Søren Sindbæk carried out the new excavation. I don't know about the old one at the first fortress, though.

This is quite interesting! Thank you for this!

Yesss, it immediately popped into my mind as well, a fascinating case. I ran across a single article back then and sadly heard no more of it… if anybody has some research on that burial I’d love to read it. And if I remember correctly there was a wand in addition to the staff, and oddly enough, toe rings :)

HempMasterNinja this could also potentially be Norwegian forest cat

There's been archaeological findings of cats in nordic areas so I'm pretty sure cat gloves were made out of cats. Try catching a lynx, I dare you.

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Jackson mentions Urðr, the Norn, and as with the Fates and Wyrd Sisters there are indeed 3 Norns: Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld. (In fact Urðr's name is equivalent to old English "Wyrd".) It's mentioned at one point that in general they carve the fates on wood (rather than weaving like the Greek Fates). But in one of the poems they visit the newborn Helgi, and there they do "weave the web of fate," establishing his destiny as a great hero.

@@GaryDunion I believe there are more than 3 norns

@@yensid4294 Yes, I was simplifying because I didn't think the apparently numerous unnamed Norns were relevant to your point that there is a common motif of three magical women who determine destiny. Whereas the three principal Norns do support your observation.

@@GaryDunion I kinda figured the Maid/Mother/Crone & other Triple aspect goddesses like The Morrigan were probably related. Mythologically & biologically women are associated with blood & birth so perhaps that was seen as magical & the connection was strengthened thru midwifery. Traditionally, oracles were female in Greek society. I only mentioned there being more than 3 Norns because 9 was the meaningful number to Vikings & I think there is only one rather gory story that has them weaving (with someone's entrails if memory serves?) The 3 Norns named are associated with Yggdrasil & the Well of Urd & usually the norns are depicted as carving sacred runes into Yggdrasil, not weaving, which is interesting. It was the weaving that caught my attention since that was a feminine craft I thought maybe that was why magic was considered feminine & therefore unseemly for any male to practice. Sorry for the ramble...

At first I didn't understand this but then I said it to myself in Swedish and it very well could be the case. I'm assuming Näsström is Swedish also. If varð does means soul or something akin to it, it makes a lot of sense for lokka to be cognate with the Swedish "locka" to lure (out)

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Look at it this way - even Odin, the king of the gods, cannot escape his ultimate fate, which is to be killed by the Fenris wolf in Ragnarok. And it's not for lack of trying to change this sinister fate! Remember, Odin spends his entire life gathering a huge army of the best and bravest warriors in Valhalla - all in preparation for that final showdown. But in vain. The gods (Aesir) WILL be killed in Ragnarok.

I agree/ jag håller med

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Catonius ?

I've often heard that the practice of seidr is akin to "calling in the spirits", so maybe it is luring in the spirits with song? That way, they can speak to you to tell you what it is that you need to know...

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Shamans are from Siberia. Odin was not a shaman.

"However, Mircea Eliade noted that the Sanskrit word śramaṇa, designating a wandering monastic or holy figure, has spread to many Central Asian languages along with Buddhism and could be the ultimate origin of the Tungusic word" The term is also believed to be used the lands that we call Turkey and Snorri describes Odinn as a king of Troy (in modern Turkey) so it is a possibility that the term,or it's Trojan equivalent was in use. Or are you just nit-picking?

Snorri made the assumption of the Aesir being from Asia to make them human and not gods, there are no linguistic connection between the words Aesir and Asia, it just sounded that way to him. So incorrect linguistics from Snorri you use as an argument that another linguistic connection is correct? The Turks didn't come to "Turkey" until the 11th century, no one used any tungusic words in Anatolia before that. I'm not nit-picking, I'm telling you that you are wrong.

It is possible that Norse/Sami traditions could have had similarities with other peoples across Northern Eurasia and that Shamans 600 years after the Norse kept some of these practises. But in that case Shamans does a kind of seidr since the sources from Scandinavia are so much older than the Siberian sources, not the other way around. Conclusion: Odin was not a Shaman.

I was stating what my first impressions were when reading the Prose Edda. My comment was not on the linguistics or the validity of Snorri's history of the Norse. I am fully aware that Snorri "disguised" elements to get past the church's attitude towards other beliefs. The piece I quoted was from Mircea Eliade, a Romanian history professor at the University of Cicago. Please elaborate on my innacuracies?

Robert Ohlen yes I should have known as in Spanish vuelvo meaning I return.

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Nope, it was founded by the owners of SKF a ball bearing company, they used a name that was originally intended as a new ballbearing line. Volvo means "i roll" in latin.

Seiðmaðr or galdramaðr. Shaman is a relatively modern word that was borrowed from the Tungus language in Siberia by historians in the early 20th century

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I think that was a truck

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+Sarah Gray Truth! LOL

@@moritamikamikara3879 Rus ARE Slavic people and Rus' does not mean Russian, it means people from old Ruthenia or Kyivan-Rus'. Its the other way around, the later Russians were influenced by the earlier Rus' kingdom. Russians are Volga forest tribes who took advantage of a regional power void after the Mongols slaughtered 90% of the urban populations of Kyivan-Rus'.

All the texts on Norse manliness are explicitly sexual, differentiating man and woman. You are mistaken.