‘Seidr, the Nordic path, working with magic en shamanism in Northwestern Europe’
Will be released in February 2010 in Dutch
My third book, ‘Seidr, the Nordic path, traces of magic en shamanism in Northwestern Europe’, will be released in Dutch in February 2010. The book is divided in two sections: the A chapters, containing facts, saga’s and sources in wich seidr as a magical discipline is mentioned and described. They include background information about what seidr could have been and what it could have meant to the people of ancient Scandinavia, based on scientific research, archeological finds, and the scarce evidence available.
What was seidr? Wat it a form of shamanism, magic, witchcraft? Was seidr influenced by de Finn-Ugric people and/or the Sami first nations? Was it a magical discipline brought to Scandinavia by early immigrants of the Western part of old continental Europe? Are there any traces found on the continent itself?
The B chapters contains my own research. These sections contain accounts of ritual work, done by me and some of my students, stories, research about landwights, trance, gods, burial mounds, death cults, sacred places and more in Norway, Norse Lapland and the Netherlands.
The book contains the following chapters:
Prologue: Seeing in other worlds- Chapter 1: Seidr and the Vala- Chapter 2: The history of the Scandinavian people- Chapter 3: God, Goddess, male, female -Chapter 4: the Norns: weavers of the web- Chapter 5: The dark side of seidr- Chapter 6: The deathcult and the ancestors- Chapter 7: Corpsroads and utiseta- Chapter 8: Seidr and healing- Chapter 9: Galdr -Chapter 10: Landwights- Chapter 11: Oraclework- Chapter 12: Hedgeriders: working on the boundaries-Chapter 13: Taufr, Knife and staff.
Short stories, Short stories, small ones, just to catch a moment in time (PDF):
