Meaning of seiðkona | Babel Free

Definitions

A female practitioner of seiðr; a seeress; a witch.

Germanic

Examples

“Coordinate term: seiðmann”

“People ask me, as a seidkona, how they can hear the gods, and I say: start with silence.”

“The other reading shows the whale as a part of the hugr of the women, with the whale shape (and possibly the storm) created by the seidkonas.”

“Frithiof's Saga tells of two seiðkonur (women who know seiðr) hired to drown some enemies of their paymaster at sea.”

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