Gypsey Elaine Teague - Norse Divination: Illuminating Your Path with the Wisdom of the Gods

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Norse Divination: Illuminating Your Path with the Wisdom of the Gods 2021 by Gypsey Elaine Teague.

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First e-book edition 2021

E-book ISBN: 9780738767796

Book design by Samantha Peterson

Cover design by Shannon McKuhen

Interior art by Llewellyn Art Department

Photo on page by Heather Greene

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Names: Teague, Gypsey, author.

Title: Norse divination: illuminating your path with the wisdom of the

gods / Gypsey Teague.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, MN : Llewellyn Publications, a

division of Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2021. | Includes bibliographical

references and index. | Summary: Through concise yet detailed analyses

of these deities and their relationships to each other, youll gain a

deep understanding of your past, present, and future.Learn how to use

the gods beliefs, customs, loves, and deaths to create your own

36-pieceProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021036816 (print) | LCCN 2021036817 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738767727 | ISBN 9780738767796 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Mythology, Norse. | RunesMiscellanea. | Divination. |

Cosmology, Norse.

Classification: LCC BL860 .T43 2021 (print) | LCC BL860 (ebook) | DDC

293/.32dc23

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NOTE 1: Much of the information on the creation of the nine realms comes from the Vlusp . A copy of this is found in the Hauksbk , held in the rni Magnsson Institute for Icelandic Studies. I had an opportunity to study this work in 2014 when I visited the institute with other scholars from Scandinavia.

NOTE 2: There are over two hundred names, places, and items that may be foreign to the reader. Everything that I mention in this book is included in the . If you find something that you are having trouble understanding, start there.

Contents

Part One:

: Creating and Using the Pieces

Part Two:

Part 3:

: Handy Piece Reference Sheets

Acknowledgments

First, I want to thank my wife, Marla. She is always there supporting me when I write, and this book would never have gotten started without her support. I want to thank my oldest and dearest friend, Delph, and my Viking daughter, Tanna, for proofing the book multiple times for flaws, omissions, and, gods forbid, grammatical errors. Delph has read every book Ive written in draft and has never failed me. I want to thank my editor, Heather Greene, who pitched this book to a room of other editors who probably didnt have much of an idea what I was trying to do here or how I could do it. She made sense out of my proposal and this is the outcome.

Finally, I want to thank the Heathen community, past, present, and those to come. We are small but we are not quiet. We have been around for over a thousand years and we will prevail until and after Ragnark. I hope I have done them all proud.

Part One

Introduction

I would love to say that I was born and raised by a Heathen couple who nurtured my interest and desire to learn more about my cultural roots. I would also love to say that I come from a long line of Heathens who can trace my line back to the Northmen of legend. Unfortunately, I cannot say either of these. I was instead raised Catholic. My mother and all my maternal side came from a small town in Quebec Province. My father was nondenominational. My paternal grandmother was Methodist, and my paternal grandfather was Baptist. However, for all these diverse Christian religions, I was exposed early to the Norse culture and history. My family told me I was a little bit Icelandic. I have no proof of that, and thanks to a genetic test I know I am 76 percent Canadian French, with some Irish, Scottish, German, and others thrown in.

I remember having Viking toy soldiers as a very young child. They were the colored plastic ones in preset positions. About three-quarters of an inch high, they were perfect for the long ships I found at Woolworths in their model department. Then in 1964, National Geographic came out with their November issue that discussed the discovery of the settlement at LAnse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. After that it was more book work and learning who these fascinating people whom I wanted to be related to really were.

By the time I was in high school I began gravitating to the Norse and started studying the culture of the area. I found and started reading the Thor comic books put out by Marvel. I know now they werent accurate, but to a twelve-year-old they were more than what I could ask for. They were the stories of my gods, albeit skewed for the reading public of the twentieth century. I learned what little Icelandic I could at home growing up, but promptly forgot it when I had to take German and Latin in high school. I read the sagas and envisioned myself sailing with Leifr Erikson. By my early twenties I was an army officer and learning to be a Gyja, a leader of the blots, the sacred rituals performed at specific spiritual times of the year. In my thirties I was posted all over the world: twice to Korea, once to Japan, once to Germany, but Iceland was always home to me, even though I had yet to visit.