Hello! Wyrdos Theo, Kenna and Sif talk about the origins of the troll cross. What is it? What is a troll? What is a trollrabbit? We get stuck in for a relatively quick episode that will lead to bigger things. We're sure of it. Brace yourself.

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Hello! Wyrdos Sif, Theo and Kenna talk all about the Nornir and realise that it's just really confusing. Like your podcasts with a touch of *CHAOS*, you've come to the right place. This is a wild one. 

Stay tuned for the episode notes on discord, they'll be up soon because boy it's messy as heck./ 

Sources:

The Norns in Old Norse Mythology - K.B. Pedersen

The Well and the Tree - Paul C. Bauschat

Prose Edda

Poetic Edda

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Voluspa-

She saw valkyries

come from far and wide,

ready to ride

to Goðþjóð.

Skuld held a shield,

and Skögul was another,

Gunnr, Hildr, Göndul

and Geirskögul.

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Gyfaginning -

These are called Valkyrs: them Odin sends to every battle; they determine men's feyness and award victory. Gudr and Róta and the youngest Norn, she who is called Skuld, ride ever to take the slain and decide fights.

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Gylfaginning, Prose Edda so we can blame Snorri- What are the Norns?

A hall stands there, fair, under the ash by the well, and out of that hall come three maids, who are called thus: Urdr, Verdandi, Skuld; these maids determine the period of men's lives: we call them Norns; but there are many norns: those who come to each child that is born, to appoint his life; these are of the race of the gods, but the second are of the Elf-people, and the third are of the kindred of the dwarves, as it is said here:

Most sundered in birth

I say the Norns are;

They claim no common kin:

Some are of Æsir-kin,

some are of Elf-kind,

Some are Dvalinn's daughters. *

Then said Gangleri: "If the Norns determine the weirds of men, then they apportion exceeding unevenly, seeing that some have a pleasant and luxurious life, but others have little worldly goods or fame; some have long life, others short." Hárr said: "Good norns and of honorable race appoint good life; but those men that suffer evil fortunes are governed by evil norns.

*Sif note: interesting, because this sort of echoes the Valkyries - that people can become Valkyries regardless of origin. It’s a title, an occupation, perhaps. Fate-weaving or something akin to that is something that was treasured and prized, leading to an elevated station, potentially. Which also echoes the real world and ‘women’s work’ which was crucial to Viking Age life. So many cool little connections.

Links:

Web of wyrd- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ20-12x910

Valkyrie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDzL1qxP94&t=65s

Yggdrasil video - https://youtube.com/watch?v=04vhZlH7I5g&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

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This episode Wyrdo Sif is let loose on the cosmic space tree. Yggdrasil. Let's talk about it! It's fascinating stuff. Promise. 

Excerpts and other things, 

An ash I know there stands,
Yggdrasill is its name,
a tall tree, showered
with shining loam.
From there come the dews
that drop in the valleys.
It stands forever green over
Urdr's Well.

Voluspa

Poetic Edda

Eikthyrnir the hart is called,

that stands o'er Odin's hall,

and bites from Lærad's branches;

from his horns fall drops into Hvergelmir,

whence all waters rise:

 - Thorpe, 1866

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Karen Bek-Pedersen, The Norns in Old Norse Mythology 

The Waking of Agantyr / The Incantation of Agantyr - it's awesome, check it out. 

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Hello, hello and welcome to this episode of the podcast where the Wyrdos discuss all things Wyrd. Kenna takes the lead on this one, and we all have a fun discussing fate, orlog, hamingja and so many other things you can really get into and become a touch obsessed with. 

References:

• Butcher, G. D. 1995. Stav: The Fighting System of Northern Europe. Stav Marketing.
• Fries, Jan. 1993. Helrunar: A Manual of Rune Magick. Mandrake of Oxford.

Battlesong of the Valkyries: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/darra.htm

Sacred-Texts; Voluspa (Adams’ Translation): https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe03.htm

On the history of the Web symbol: https://www.mimisbrunnr.info/ksd-web-of-wyrd

Wyrdos Multipart Soul - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY9oRL6Fl3A&t=101s

Ocean Keltoi on Luck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Dmw6vtwgg

Excerpts:

• Voluspa! (Kenna’s Favorite!!)

19. “An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name,

With water white | is the great tree wet;

Thence come the dews | that fall in the dales,

Green by Urth's well | does it ever-grow.

20. Thence come the maidens | mighty in wisdom,

Three from the dwelling | down 'neath the tree;

Urth is one named, | Verthandi the next,--

On the wood they scored,-- | and Skuld the third.

Laws they made there, and life allotted

To the sons of men, and set their fates.”

• Helgakviða Hundingsbana I - Poetic Edda
  

2. 'Twas night in the dwelling,

and Norns there came,

Who shaped the life

of the lofty one;

They bade him most famed

of fighters all

And best of princes

ever to be.

3. Mightily wove they

the web of fate,

While Bralund's towns

were trembling all;

And there the golden

threads they wove,

And in the moon's hall

fast they made them.

4. East and west

the ends they hid,

In the middle the hero

should have his land;

And Neri's kinswoman

northward cast

A chain, and bade it

firm ever to be

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WELCOME TO SEASON 3! 

This episode we come in like a wrecking ball to demolish the ideas around 'evil' in heathenry. It's not as simple as saying the Aesir are good and the Jotunn are bad. Want to know more? Listen in. Wyrdos Sif, Theo and Kenna discuss the origins of the word evil, and how it shouldn't be used to define or label our Nordic gods. 

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LINKS:

Angrboda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVhIWgtUtws

Ocean’s Multipart Soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQb8qZk-qg

Sif’s Multipart Soul:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY9oRL6Fl3A

Battista paper: http://www.sagaconference.org/SC13/SC13_Battista.pdf

Sacred Texts, Havamal: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe04.htm

Ocean’s Fenrir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0dNasvVewk

Wyrdos Oaths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjViHwwSXcQ

Excerpts:

Havamal 117

“Wounded to death, have I seen a man

by the words of an evil woman;

a lying tongue had bereft him of life,

and all without reason of right.”

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Völuspá 38-39, Ursula Dronke

Sal sá hón standa

sólo fiarri,

Nástrǫndu á,

norðr horfa dyrr.

Fello eitrdropar

inn um lióra.

Sá er undinn salr

orma hryggiom.

Sá hón þar vaða

þunga strauma

menn meinsvara

ok morðvarga

ok þannz annars glepr

eyrarúno.

Þar saug Nidhoggr,

nái framgengna,

sleit vargr vera.

Vitoð ér enn, eða hvat?

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A hall she saw standing

remote from the sun

on Dead Body Shore.

Its door looks north.

There fell drops of venom

in through the roof vent.

That hall is woven

of serpents’ spines.

She saw there wading

onerous streams

men perjured

and wolfish murderers

and the one who seduces

another’s close-trusted wife.

There Malice Striker (Nidhoggr) sucked

corpses of the dead,

the wolf tore men.

Do you still seek to know? And what?

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Wyrdos Kenna, Theo and Sif talk about accessibility in heathenry - what does the lore say? What do academics say? How is that changing? How can you be more accessible in your praxis/ how to make things better for everyone.   

Tarot: Braille Service:  https://tarotgarden.com/braille-service/   

Michael David Lawson’s PHd thesis, entitled Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of medieval Scandinavia: https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5008&context=etd  

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The Wyrdos revisit altars to talk more about altar related things. Do we change our altars seasonally? Spoilers: no. We also learn that explosible is a word. And now Microsoft is telling me it isn't. Be gone red line! You have no power here! 

Rule number 1 of paganism: fire safety! Don't make your altars explosible. 

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It's Sif's turn for appalling audio. It was going to happen. It was inevitable. We've been sitting on this one for a while trying to tidy it up, but enjoy!

Nonetheless, Wyrdos Theo, Kenna and Sif talk about dressing like a heathen - is it a thing? How do you dress like a heathen? Find out here!

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