Historical rune magic, advice from a Valkyrie and a pagan prayer.
Linguistically dated to the late pagan period of the Viking Age, Sigrdrifumál is a fascinating poem that features the voice of a valkyrie, here called Sigrdrífa (meaning 'victory-driver; victory-bringer). Awoken from her thorn-induced slumber, the valkyrie offers a horn of drink before saying a pagan prayer to the gods and feverishly reciting intense wisdom and runic magic to the hero. Preserved in a fragmentary state, the poem is enigmatic not only for its mysticism and insight into the Younger Futhark, the Viking Age development of the runic alphabet, but also for the Hávamál-like wisdom it provides cloaked in ethereal and uncanny imagery.
Historical rune magic, advice from a Valkyrie and a pagan prayer.
Linguistically dated to the late pagan period of the Viking Age, Sigrdrifumál is a fascinating poem that features the voice of a valkyrie, here called Sigrdrífa (meaning 'victory-driver; victory-bringer). Awoken from her thorn-induced slumber, the valkyrie offers a horn of drink before saying a pagan prayer to the gods and feverishly reciting intense wisdom and runic magic to the hero. Preserved in a fragmentary state, the poem is enigmatic not only for its mysticism and insight into the Younger Futhark, the Viking Age development of the runic alphabet, but also for the Hávamál-like wisdom it provides cloaked in ethereal and uncanny imagery.
