Viking Goddesses and Seeresses电子书

Prologue

The First Women of the Icy North

The Age of the Völur

The Beginning and the End

Hyndla

The Wakened Völva

The Age of Goddesses

Menglöð – The Realm

Freyja – The Woman

Gullveig – The War

The Age of the Nornir

The Genesis of Humankind

Beneath the World Tree

The Cloth of Fate

The Age of the Valkyries

Mistresses of Death

Swan-Maidens

The Age of Transition

The Transformation of the Völur

Goddesses sans Thrones

After Menglöð

Twins and Incest

Divine Nornir on Earth

Variations on the Valkyries

Óðin’s Women

The Serving Girls

The Pseudo-Valkyries

The Legacy of Vision

Vestiges of the Realm of Women

Women’s World, Men’s World

Women’s Legacy

Appendices

Appendix 1. The Viking Age

Appendix 2. Old Norse Literature

Appendix 2.1 The Poetic and the Prose Edda

Appendix 2.2 Certain Songs of the Poetic Edda

Appendix 2.2.1 Völuspá

Appendix 2.2.2 Hávamál

Appendix 2.2.3 Vafþrúðnismál

Appendix 2.2.4 Grímnismál

Appendix 2.2.5 Skírnismál

Appendix 2.2.6 Hárbarðsljóð

Appendix 2.2.7 Hymiskviða

Appendix 2.2.8 Lokasenna

Appendix 2.2.9 Þrymskviða

Appendix 2.2.10 Alvíssmál

Appendix 2.2.11 Baldrs draumar (Vegtamskviða)

Appendix 2.2.12 Rígsþula (Rígsmál)

Appendix 2.2.13 Hyndluljóð / Völuspá in skamma

Appendix 2.2.14 Gróttasöngr

Appendix 2.2.15 Svipdagsmál

Appendix 2.2.15.1 Gróagaldr

Appendix 2.2.15.2 Fjölsvinnsmál

Appendix 2.2.16 Darraðarljóð

Appendix 2.2.17 Hrafnagaldr Óðins (Forspjallsljóð)

Appendix 2.3 A Brief Overview of the Prose Edda

Appendix 2.3.1 Prologue

Appendix 2.3.2 Gylfaginning

Appendix 2.3.3 Skáldskaparmál

Appendix 2.3.4 Nafnaþulur

Appendix 2.3.5 Háttatal

Appendix 2.3.6 Skáldatal

Appendix 2.4 Heimskringla

Appendix 2.5 Early Histories and Collections

Appendix 3. Language and Translation

Appendix 3.1 The Icelandic Alphabet

Appendix 3.2 Kennings

Appendix 3.3 Galdralag

Appendix 3.4 Talking Names

Appendix 4. Old Norse Words and Texts

Appendix 4.1 “Silence I bid”

Appendix 4.2 “Tell me, Fjölsviðr”

Appendix 4.3 “A small sword will be ready”

Appendix 4.4 “The Æsir were assembled”

Appendix 4.5 “Óðin hurled”

Appendix 4.6 “She remembers the war”

Appendix 4.7 “Playing on the lawn”

Appendix 4.8 “Thence came maidens”

Appendix 4.9 “She saw Valkyries”

Appendix 4.10 Various Parts of the Darraðarljóð

Appendix 4.11 “She was called Heiði”

Appendix 4.12 “Gunnlöð gave me drink”

Appendix 5. Stories

Appendix 5.1 Gnowee

Appendix 5.2 Baldr’s Death

Appendix 5.3 Meleager

Appendix 5.4 Germania

Appendix 5.5 Metis

Appendix 6. Miscellanious additions

Appendix 6.1 The Jötnar and Cosmology

Appendix 6.2 The Dvergar

Appendix 6.3 The Nordic Horn Ceremony

Appendix 6.4 Spinning and Weaving

Appendix 6.5 Burial Mounds

Appendix 6.6 The Oseberg Ship

Appendix 6.7 The Tree that Reached the Sky

Appendix 6.8 The Unity of Day and Night

Appendix 6.9 The Mandorla

Appendix 6.10 Geography Primer

Appendix 6.11 The Battle of the Darraðarljóð

Appendix 6.12 Our Cover Rune

Acknowledgments

Books and articles

Manuscripts

Internet sources

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations