Sources: Skírnismál (“The Speech of the Shining One”) of the Poetic Edda, and from Snorri Sturlusson´s Prose Edda. Music for this video: Peregrin. Songs: Skudrinka, Branle d´Ecosse, Ai-vist-dur. (www.myspace.com Thanks to Peregrin for letting me use your music! Video, translations… Continue reading
In 1867, the Norwegian authority on Old Norse literature, Sophus Bugge, dismissed the Raven Charm of Odin as a hoax and decided that it should never again be published as a part of the Poetic Edda. He based his decision… Continue reading