34: Viking Drone Warfare - Spinning, seiðr & gandr with Eldar Heide

Brute Norse Podcast

Few things about Norse paganism are as misunderstood or -represented as the practice of seiðr, and that's saying something. But if there is one single man that stands firm as mountain, jutting forth from the sea of quackery, that man is Eldar Heide. Linguist, Old Norse philologist, maritime conservationist, ski-tree-jumper. Pioneer of retrospective methods, and one of the main minds behind the prevailing paradigm of Norse magic, and its fascinating connection to the pre-Christian religion of the Fenno-Scandinavian Sami. A wacky world of textiles, bodily orifices, magic missiles, breath (good and bad!), and sexual taboos await! You can find most of Eldar's work here: https://www.Eldar-heide.net Support Brute Norse at: https://www.linktr.ee/brutenorse Some relevant or mentioned works: - Gardeła, Leszek (2016). (Magic) Staffs in the Viking Age. - Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben (1983). The Unmanly Man. - Price, Neil (2002). The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandiavia.