Pagan Portals--Odin by Morgan Daimler

Author:Morgan Daimler [Daimler, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78535-481-6
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2018-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

Hlidskjalf

The name of Odin’s throne or seat from which he can see the entire world. Odin is the one most known for sitting on this high seat but he is not the only one who does so in a story; Freyr also sits on Hlidskjalf at least once and ends up love sick over the giantess Gerd after seeing her from the throne’s vantage point. It generally seems that Odin uses the seat to watch things going on through the worlds, as another means to gain knowledge and keep up with current events.

Runes

In a practical sense the runes are simply letters, a variety of alphabets found in the Norse influenced areas. There are several, but the ones that are most common today are probably the Anglo-Saxon, Younger Futhark, and Elder Futhark. Futhark being simply the first six letters in order of the alphabet, just as the alphabet represents the Latin letters ‘a’ and ‘b’ respectively.

In mythology we are told that Odin found the runes after hanging for 9 nights on Yggdrasil, without food or water, pierced by his own spear. Looking down he had a vision of the runes below him. Not only the ones we know, but many other sets which belonged to the Gods, Alfar [elves], dwarves, and giants. The runes were given to mankind in the story of the Rigsthula, which relates how one of the Aesir under the pseudonym of Rig came to Midgard and fathered three classes of people, giving the secret of the runes to the ruling class. Although myth would suggest Heimdall was the one who did this, there is much supposition that it was actually Odin who traveled under the guise of Rig (Simek, 1993). This makes a lot of sense given Odin’s proclivity for wandering and his intimate knowledge of the runes.

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