November 10 Kosh will discuss Seiðr as it pertains to our religion and historical sources pertaining to the subject. The meeting will be held online via discord link to the Keeper of Seasons Hall discord server can be found below. More information to follow on Tuesday. As per usual, meeting will open to the public at 5:30 Mountain time.
Sorry, I don’t think I’ll have time to make a handout as was the initial plan, but here’s the bibliography of sources we will be drawing upon. Don’t feel like you need to read these in advance. However, if you want to track something down later on here you go.
Specifically dealing with Heathen sources
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection. Viking, 2000.
Larrington, Carolyne, editor. The Poetic Edda. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Lecouteux, Claude. The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices. Inner traditions, 2013.
Price, Neil S. The Viking Way : Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Oxbow Books, 2019.
Other supplementary work
Bailey, Michael David. Magic: The Basics. 1 [edition], Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
“The Feminization of Magic and the Emerging Idea of the Female Witch in the Late Middle Ages.” Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 2002, pp. 120–34.
Bennett, Judith M. Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300 - 1600. 1. issued as paperback, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, and Larry Dean Benson. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Lacy, Norris J., editor. The Lancelot-Grail Reader: Selections from the Medieval French Arthurian Cycle. Garland Pub, 2000.