The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum

Thank you for that input. That is why I love this site, so much knowledge in the world but is hard to travel the world sometimes so having a way to get it from the house is nice.

 
Its a shame you think you are going to find that in a misinterpreted watered down book. Everything you need to know is in the Poetic Edda and no place else.

Hello!

I have been reading about Norse magic called Seidr. I am still a bit confused as to what it is. Does anyone have any information or experience with it?

 
I am leery of wading into a thread where someone got banned.  But if you want information ...

"Nine Worlds of Seid Magic" by Jenny Blain is written by someone who is both an academic and a practitioner of modern Seid.

"Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic" by Clive Tolley compares what is known about Shamanism to what is known about Seid.  (Clive proves rather convincingly Seid and Shamanism have little to do with one another).

"Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages"  by Stephen Mitchel has a few things to say about Seid.

Raudvere. "Trolldómr in Early Medieval Scandinavia." Ed. Bengt & Clark, Stuart Ankarloo. Vol. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe.   Another academic source that references Seid.


I hope that helps ....

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Sunflower

 
Maybe it's catching! It's hard to be sure.

"Nine Worlds of Seid Magic" by Jenny Blain is written by someone who is both an academic and a practitioner of modern Seid.

"Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic" by Clive Tolley compares what is known about Shamanism to what is known about Seid.  (Clive proves rather convincingly Seid and Shamanism have little to do with one another).

"Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages"  by Stephen Mitchel has a few things to say about Seid.

Raudvere. "Trolldómr in Early Medieval Scandinavia." Ed. Bengt & Clark, Stuart Ankarloo. Vol. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe.   Another academic source that references Seid.

Ooh, I finally finished reading Elves in Anglo-Saxon England that Hall cross-referenced with medieval Germany and Scandinavia. I'd be interested in Clive's argument because Hall seemed all etymological/cultural transfer of Saami shamanism to seidr. The gist of the thing to Hall seemed to be: 1. get high (as in, hike up a hill or mountain before doing the thing) 2. have a wand (or maybe a rune staff, but I don't know why because this next thing went—) 3. leave body, make trouble. Though there's some previous mention of having someone otherworldly come into the body and prophesy stuff too though not explicitly categorized as seidr, and I'm just fortunate to have read elsewhere on these forums about the heathen concept of spirit bodies because Hall seemed to just be sort of "...leave body. (Pause.) Now about those gender constructs implied by the dative and genitive cognates following diachronic philological—" though to be fair the latter was what it was more about. So your book list looks great, since it's got books just about the actual thing!