Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Further Videos
The Goddess of Death: youtu.be/ktEdpreG2mg
Thorolf Twistfoot: youtu.be/_JdlajaWK-Q
The Norse Afterlife: youtu.be/qKB1Gm3eV6Y
Viking Luck: youtu.be/52Dmw6vtwgg
The Werebear: youtu.be/-gah9gn0r8A
Source Bias: youtu.be/L6uYidxAmPM
Arith Härger's Take on the Soul: youtu.be/qOP8MSLQjRc

Further Reading
- Wind in the Worldtree on the Soul: windintheworldtree.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/the-multi-part-soul
- The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia - W.F. Ryan
- Children of Ash and Elm - Neil Price
- Road to Hel - HRE Davidson (as Hilda Ellis)
- Myth and Religion of the North - EOG Turville-Petre
- Heimskringla - Saga of Hakon the Good - Snorri
- The Prose Edda - Snorri
- Gisli Sursson's Saga
- Njal's Saga
- Poetic Edda - The Waking of Angantyr
- On the Soul - Aristotle
- Lik definition: bosworthtoller.com/21549 / bosworthtoller.com/54582
- ǼÐM definition: bosworthtoller.com/963
- Old Norse to English Dictionary: vikingsofbjornstad.com/Old_Norse_Dictionary_E2N.shtm

music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

00:00 - Intro
00:25 - The Concept of the Soul
02:30 - The Mind vs Brain
05:20 - The Heathen Conception
06:55 - Lik - The Body
07:51 - Ond - The Breath of Life
08:06 - Odr - Intellectual Self
08:40 - Hugr - Thought
09:49 - Minni - Memory
10:22 - Hamr - The Form of the Body
13:18 - The Fylgja & The Disir - The Guardian Spirits
15:08 - Hammingja - The Luck Spirit
16:10 - The Draugr, Burials & The Afterlife
17:42 - The Soul - The Sum of all Parts