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Rúnir tala, seiður kveða
Líf endurnýja, þrautir fjarlægja
Galdr and varðlokur
I'm right now reading Neil Price's The Viking way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, and it's so very interesting. I highly recommand it.
But while reading, I came upon a form of magic I did not know about: the varðlokur. For the longest time, I believed that Galdr was the only musical form of magic: turns out I was deeply mistaken. So is the varðlokur.
From what I understand: both galdr and varðlokur use voice and sound, but they serve different magical logics. Galdr is active, forceful, and declarative magic. It's spoken or sung to make something happen. Varðlokur, as part of seiðr, are inductive and invitational. It's sung to draw spirits, knowledge, or states of consciousness closer. Price treats galdr as commanding, and seiðr/varðlokur as mediating.
I FIND IT FASCINATING :3
I was at a pagan festival some years ago and I was in this class. The lady there was talking about calling down the spirits or gods, and she said something interesting that I ended up including into my practice.
That to call down spirits or a deity well known, use three things you know about them and word them specifically.
So if you were going to call Thor for example:
O Thor
Thunderer
Wielder of Mjolnir
Husband of Sif
or some alteration thereof. Which is why in all my hymns, I specifically listed various things, and at minimum three things that could be used as identifiers. This is ultimately how I started creating my own hymns, and I encourage anyone who practices with Norse gods to do the same. Not because it's a rule, but because it's a little easier to create these things if you have some idea of where you're walking sort to speak.
I consider myself a witch, but I don't do what most people who refer to themselves as a witch do. Number one, I live in an apartment so it's hard to like have live herbs or other things. I don't typically use smoke or burning because I have birds. I tend to use more personal methods of casting that involve the voice. Like singing. I tend to resort to calling down spirits of wind, or asking deities for advice or help. Why? Because my life is also a weak one and my stamina is often depleted from doing simple tasks like cooking or cleaning.
Living as a Disabled Witch person isn't easy, and sometimes, when I can't move because of my non-epileptic seizures, I will whisper a song only the spirits can hear. I call them down, not with elaborate woo symbols or rites with tons of planning of stars or herbs. I just do. I just sing, I just express my concerns and ask that they bless me with luck. In return, I give them my song, no matter how simple or raspy, or broken it is.
In those moments I feel the tingle of something in my fingers, my toes, my face, and my body relaxes and I feel at peace.
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Does anyone know of any good sources for learning about galdr?
~ GALDR ~
The practice of Galdr involves the chanting of verses to achieve a certain outcome, based on whether the Gods join you in the singing. The reverberation of the chant is pivotal to the development of a proper Galdr and must be taken into consideration when performing it.
There are three types of Galdr we will present here, to give the full spectrum of the record involving this practice.
- First are the Direct Galdr, which are the verses in Galdralag meter that are in the sources and can be connected to a specific working.
- Then there is the Chronicled Galdr, which are the chants given in a specific poem that are not in the Galdralag meter, but which are specifically stated to be a chant given. It should be noted that while these verses are not Galdralag, they are still in Ljóðahattr meter, from which Galdralag is formed. In fact, when we learn about the sanctity of Galdralag in Ynglingasaga, it is directly connected to the ljóða:
Allar þessar íþróttir kendi hann með rúnum ok ljóðum, þeim er galdrar heita; fyrir því eru Æsir kallaðir galdrasmiðir.
“All these feats he taught with rúnar and ljóða, those which are called Galdr, and because of this the Æsir are called Galdr-smiths”.
….(please follow the link below)
https://norroena.org/galdr/
GALDR-“Winter’s Spirit”