Arith Härger | Were Viking Witches Real ? @ArithH%C3%A4rger | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
From an academic perspective, is it correct to say "nordic witches" in relation to the pre-Christian Nordic völur as women practitioner of seiðr? - This is the question I'm going to try to answer, taking into consideration the concept of witchcraft and pre- and post- Christian mentalities in Northern Europe.

For bibliography this time I will suggest some of my past videos (which contain bibliography) which you may find to be useful concerning a more in-depth study of both seiðr as well as Nordic Middle Ages Diabolism and Witchcraft:

1) The Witch Cult & The Great Goddess:
youtube.com/watch?v=cLzdAlmGmYo

2) The Devil - The Companion of Witches:
youtube.com/watch?v=pZpN3d_oAgw

3) Pactum cum Diabolo [ Pact with the Devil ]:
youtube.com/watch?v=QaQmPNaMucQ

4) Nordic Witchcraft and Diabolism:
youtube.com/watch?v=NEfaNG82Lb0

5) The Night Ride of the Witches:
youtube.com/watch?v=CwL4dWQfRn0

6) Witchcraft and Shamanism:
youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_Lk_Dt_1Q

7) Animism: Vital Force, Witchcraft, Soul & Spirit:
youtube.com/watch?v=YaJ9FLZZyd8

8) Fjolkyngi Vs Trolldomr:
youtube.com/watch?v=XzUp_1x7Xr8

9) Revival of Nordic Shamanism:
youtube.com/watch?v=B_txzuH_buU

10) The Drum of the Völva:
youtube.com/watch?v=2VKWhbAonjo

11) Helping Spirits in Seidr:
youtube.com/watch?v=7jK0jI-I1zY

12) Vardlokkur - The Calling of the Spirits:
youtube.com/watch?v=T1CpDFZmJ1I

13) Gullveig - The Maiden Prophetess:
youtube.com/watch?v=Hrlmfp-40O4&t

14) Galdr - Alluring Magic Chants:
youtube.com/watch?v=gyxuqcA6HNg

15) U T I S E T A:
youtube.com/watch?v=m4pHLVLjJOs


Ps: the two images you see in the thumbnail for this video is a c. 12th - 1300 CE depiction of a cloaked woman riding a large cat which appears on a wall in the Schleswig Cathedral in Schleswig-Holstein (former Denmark), Northern Germany. She is commonly interpreted as Freyja. She is also alongside another feminine figure (see next to it) riding a broom (interpreted as Frigg). These are Christian depictions of what we could, perhaps, call "proto-witch" figure.

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