NORSE MAGIC · LESSON 3 OF 7 · 16 MIN
Seiðr and the Seeress
The völva on her high seat, the ward-songs, Odin's shame, and the modern revival of oracular seiðr.
If galdr is the voice of magic, seiðr is its trance. It was the art of seeing what was hidden and what was to come — and, in some stories, of turning minds, weather and luck. Its practitioners were above all women: the völva (seeress, "staff-bearer") and the seiðkona.