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https://www.iflscience.com/worlds-oldest-runestone-may-have-been-carved-by-a-woman-77882
Daily reminder that Odin was called by Loki a faggot in the Lokasenna Edda for practicing feminine magic (Seiðr).
>Loki Said: “But people say that you practiced womanly magic on Samsey, dressed as a woman. You lived as a witch among the humans — and I call that a pervert’s way of living.” (Crawford Translation)
>Loki spake: "They say that with spells | in Samsey once like witches with charms didst thou work; And in witch's guise | among men didst thou go; Unmanly thy soul must seem." (Bellows Translation)
Odin dressed/lived or did shapeshifting (he has already transformed into a serpent, an animal associated with the female sex/water/chaos, to steal the Mead of Poetry) as a woman to learn his ability to see the future. This is a case where we have the other myths that Loki is referencing to show that he didn't just make this up. That magic was associated with women alone. 'Pervert' and 'Unmanly' here are very cleaned up translations of 'argr' that is best equivalent to 'faggot' in modern English. A derogatory word for homosexual man.
>In Old Norse, seiðr (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith, or seid) was a type of magic which was practised in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. The practice of seiðr is believed to be a form of magic which is related to both the telling and the shaping of the future
>Seiðr was associated with both the god Óðinn, a deity who was simultaneously responsible for war, poetry and sorcery, and the goddess Freyja, a member of the Vanir who was believed to have taught the practice to the Æsir
https://www.iflscience.com/worlds-oldest-runestone-may-have-been-carved-by-a-woman-77882
Daily reminder that Odin was called by Loki a faggot in the Lokasenna Edda for practicing feminine magic (Seiðr).
>Loki Said: “But people say that you practiced womanly magic on Samsey, dressed as a woman. You lived as a witch among the humans — and I call that a pervert’s way of living.” (Crawford Translation)
>Loki spake: "They say that with spells | in Samsey once like witches with charms didst thou work; And in witch's guise | among men didst thou go; Unmanly thy soul must seem." (Bellows Translation)
Odin dressed/lived or did shapeshifting (he has already transformed into a serpent, an animal associated with the female sex/water/chaos, to steal the Mead of Poetry) as a woman to learn his ability to see the future. This is a case where we have the other myths that Loki is referencing to show that he didn't just make this up. That magic was associated with women alone. 'Pervert' and 'Unmanly' here are very cleaned up translations of 'argr' that is best equivalent to 'faggot' in modern English. A derogatory word for homosexual man.
>In Old Norse, seiðr (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith, or seid) was a type of magic which was practised in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. The practice of seiðr is believed to be a form of magic which is related to both the telling and the shaping of the future
>Seiðr was associated with both the god Óðinn, a deity who was simultaneously responsible for war, poetry and sorcery, and the goddess Freyja, a member of the Vanir who was believed to have taught the practice to the Æsir
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