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In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery. They are also referred to with many other names meaning "prophetess", "staff bearer", "wise woman" and "sorceress", and they are frequently called witches or priestesses both in early sources and in modern scholarship.
In the Middle Ages the Danish word for seeress “vølve” meant witch. Their rituals were by then connected with dangerous and harmful magic. Thus it might be said that the Viking Age seeresses were predecessors of medieval witches.
11 de mar. de 2018 · Völva the Viking Witch or Seeress. In Vikings by SkjaldenMarch 11, 2018. A Völva or as it is pronounced in old Norse a Vǫlva (in Danish a ”Vølve”), is what we in English would call a Seeress. You could compare it to someone who practiced shamanism or witchcraft.
SEERESS definición: a woman with the supposed power to foretell events or a person's destiny ; prophetess | Significado, pronunciación, traducciones y ejemplos.
28 de feb. de 2024 · The Völva (seeress) of the Völuspá. This Völva of the Völuspá is a truly mysterious figure. She claims to have memories from a time before even Ymir himself moved in the ice and before the worlds were nine in number. She was raised by giants but does not claim gianthood.
Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end and subsequent rebirth, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin.
Two seeress’s magic staffs. The shorter one is from the Gävle area of Sweden and the longer from a grave at Fuldby, near Ringsted in Denmark. Völva probably means staff or wand carrier. The staff or wand was also an important accessory in the carrying out of seid or magic.
