Viking Magical Plants and the Nine Herbs of Woden

On this video let us see the herbs and plants mostly used in the Viking Age, at least according to Ethnobotany applied to Archaeology. And I take the opportunity to explore the Nine Herbs Charm ("Nigon Wyrta Galdor"), an Old English poem which tells us about powerful nine herbs, and a peculiar mention to the god Woden.
The nine herbs in question from the Nigon Wyrta Galdor / The Nine Herbs Charm:
mucgwyrt - Mugwort
wegbrade - Plantain
Stune - Stune Lamb's cress
Stiðe - Nettle
Attorlaðe - Cockspur grass / Betony
Mægðe - Camomile
Wergulu - Apple
Fille - Thyme / Chervil
Finule - Fennel
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[@morriganwitch]

Recover well xxx

[@vivianp5962]

Hope you feel better plants are my thing.

I'm better now, thank you. Hope all is well with you too. Plants are indeed a very interesting subject, and a big shout out to our ancestors and their experimentations with plants, because now we are aware of their effects and avoid perishing by the misuse of some plant or ingesting a no-no plant :D

[@toebeans1385]

Mugwort , especially the buds , can be smoked or steeped in a tea before bed has a very calming effect but the dreams you’ll get can be intense as it has mild hallucinogenic so be careful with dosage . Once burned a bunch of dried mugwort accidentally during a bonfire that was mixed in with the leaves and brush - and the aroma from it was quite strong and after a half hour or so we all started having conversations with the face in the fire 😂 good times 😅

Thank you for sharing that knowledge, much appreciated. I will give it a try. I'm in need of good conversations, even it it's with faces in a fire :D hehe.

[@manfrombritain6816]

literally had a mugwort tea before bed last night and can confirm: it gives you a lot of very strange dreams but more importantly also interferes with your sleep pretty bad. do not drink mugwort tea before bed if you're gonna need rest. i dont particularly find them to be useful/meaningful dreams in my (fairly limited) experience. i can usually 'feel' when a dream is trying to tell me something, and last night (and other nights) i had a whole bunch of whacky dreams but felt nothing from them

[@wolfmauler]

It's one of the principal herbs used to flavour beer (hence "Mug" 🍺 Wort) before the introduction of hops. I've used it trying to recreate ancient brews 😊, with very interesting results. Just don't mix it with very much Yarrow: You'll have a beer that tastes like bile 🤢🤣

[@wolfmauler]

@ I have the most conversations in this order: My Dog Fenrir, Cats Merlin and Greta, Myself, the Gods and the Dead 🤔

[@soulburntarotllc8155]

Bless your beard, my friend.

[@belladonna70]

sorry to hear this get well soon Arith

[@morriganwitch]

Oooo thank you . Xxx it gets everyone in the end xxx

[@ValkyriesCorner]

nice to see you Arith

[@elainemblakely282]

Greetings from the Texa Gulf Coast, USA. So sorry that COVID caught up with you. Take care of yourself. Best Wishes for a complete recovery.

[@SeleneSalvatore]

Camomile with honey is great tea in winter time. Thank for this video was great as always.

[@melcornes6878]

Hi friend. So gud to c u. I'm a subby from New Zealand 💜

[@danielemacciantelli1788]

Plants always an interesting subject!

[@phillipr.mctear8962]

Thank you 😎👍

[@dianeteeter6650]

B12 shots are amazing

[@riot.9]

Thank you!! I love videos that help in real life practice. Get well soon, hug.

[@worm_vaquero]

Good to see you again. Thank you for the video

[@wolfmauler]

That's awesome, The 9 Herbs Charm 😊. I'm working a lot with it and Merseburg. Wæs Thu Hæl my friend ✋

[@arizonaraven419]

Good Day Arith. Hope you’re feeling back to normal very soon. Took me a couple months when I had CV couple years ago. Literally had to stay awake first 3 1/2 days to remember to breathe. Ok now. I never get sick so these new things are powerful. A regular flu is going around here. Took a month for strength back, everyone is saying the same. Healthy Blessings

Glad you overcame it. Covid is literally the only thing that got me sick in the past 4 years. My health improved considerably since I've become a Vegan, but Covid really is something else. Thank you for your support and kind words. Be well and many blessings to you :D

[@sergeloos3556]

I read a novel about this subject a long time ago : The way of the Wyrd by Brian Bates. Cheers Arith and take Care of yourself.

[@myname4167]

I have a copy of that...great book

[@ossian1937]

I w was just recommending this book to someone the other day…. I was lucky enough to meet Brian Bates back in the mid 90s.Really friendly, interesting fellow and genuinely invested in indigenous cultures. I seem to recall he ran a module on Shamanic Conciousness at Sussex University.🙂

[@kaycookwhispersofserenity9222]

I very much enjoyed your presentation. I wish you a very swift full recovering from your Covid-19 infection. The first thing I noticed when you appeared on the screen was that you looked abnormally pale, and until you expained I thought there was something different about the lighting. My adult son and I both had covid-19 back in June, and on many of the days our skins were just so white and colourless, and this symptom has been apparent in many others. Looking forward to your next broadcast when you feel up to it.

[@joaquimteixeira8297]

''Even Providing connection with the gods.'' 😁 Most don't know their religious leaders started as compulsive consumers of stimulants . These substances actually can help us thru harsh times . 5 minutes tripping is equivelente sometimes to decades of therapy .

[@manfrombritain6816]

beware the uninitiated: a lot of ppl recently are talking about psychedelics like they are a panacaea... but they are easily misused and there's no guarantee you'll have a good experience. you may very well have a traumatically bad experience - though that might be the experience you need

[@spikewillow4552]

Informative video 😀one I will be going back to for sure so thank you for sharing. An I'm glad your feeling a little better may you continue to improve brother 🤟

[@howardhavardramberg7160]

Njordr speed the recovery of your health!

[@wolfmauler]

Do you invoke the Lord of Noatun for healing? That's interesting!

[@brianstewart4725]

I hope your recovery from covid is fast and thorough my friend, thank you for uploading during your recovery

[@balto9674]

Ironically I avoided covid for 3 years till August and then it hit me for the first time hard as well. Hope you get better man 💪.

[@StormyAfterDark]

Glad to see you Arith. Please keep yourself priority and you can always do videos any time. Please get super healthy. Thank you for all you do.

I'm feeling much better now :D slowling getting back on track. Hope all is well with you. Be well and have a wonderful day! Thank you.

[@brettmeldahl4456]

Just discovered this gentleman...love him

[@emanuelabarani6570]

Vielen Dank für deine Bemühungen, deine Videos sind, wie immer Goldwert. Gute und schnelle Besserung. ❤️‍🩹

[@ivar3654]

Hope you get better soon and may Odin bless you.Thank you so much for this precious piece of study ! Abraço

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

Interesting and informative 👍

[@russjbailey3759]

Thanks for this excellent video. Really interesting information. Also, on a personal note, glad to hear you're on the mend from your bout with COVID.

[@brynhild71]

Such a bummer about you getting COVID, but we are just glad that you are better. Thank you for another great video. It is my UPG (very upg) that herbal use for healing and magic was something not included in the 'lore' as to not give it importance, taking in consideration it was written by xtians. But this video makes tons of sense.

The withholding of information comes in many forms, in many time periods and by many people. It is as they say "knowledge is power". Keeping knowledge from the general public is often a form to aggrandize power and control the masses. It comes as no surprise that folk medicine has been progressively substituted by modern medicine, which uses the same plants but there's a far greater profit from it. If the public doesn't know how to get it, they turn to those who have it. There's an example from my country which was a renowned witch of the early XX century (she appeared in news papers and all and it is even recorded for early TV). When asked about her "business" she would often say "We don't do business here; people are healed and things are guessed" as best as I can translate it, as she used herbs and also did prophecy. She had no enemies, but pharmacies really didn't like her one bit.

[@edwardsedwards796]

You mean the flu.

[@thornkirinsdottir9032]

Get well soon brother Arith! You are important to this community and you deserve to take care of yourself! :)

[@annalisalundberg4561]

I know from other comments that you are better, which is great because covid is quite a bummer (caught it last summer, not pleasant at all). Great video, but I have a small perplexity. Chamomile is mostly used with abdomen ailments, and to facilitate sleep (which is silly, since it's not a hypnogogic herb, but a muscle relaxing one, so it's great to take if you have cramps, both from excerption or menstrual ones, and to placate abdominal pains - still, remember that over 5 minutes of infusion gives the chamomile tea some energizing properties, so if you plan to drink it before you go to bed, keep it under that time), to heal respiratory ailments thyme is way more functional... A lot of these plants are still used today, even if I don't know all the properties or characteristics (not my job...but a pleasant hobby to cultuvate). Hope you'll get ever better 😊 have a great rest of the week!

[@ernamoller175]

Thank you Arith! Sorry to hear about you catching COVID. Hope you get better soon. Thank you for the video, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

I'm better now, thank you very much. How have you been doing?

[@ernamoller175]

@ I am very well thank you Arith! Take care!

[@Midnight.287]

That’s really interesting to think about Ragnarok. Kinda like the company trying to clone wooly mammoths. That kind of activity is dangerous imo.

It is dangerous indeed if not done towards the best of intentions. Honestly, in terms of bringing back woolly mammoths, I'm a bit on the selfish side because I would love to see one in real life, as well as a woolly rhino. But well, it is a wish that I would prefer to remain just a wish, a fantasy even, if bringing back such animals means bringing terrible consequences to the our current biodiversity.

[@manfrombritain6816]

@ wooly mammoths being reintroduced could potentially be a very good thing. there was something i vaguely remember about reintroducing wild buffalo (or similar large bovine) to the UK and how it would stimulate natural woodland massively. it's bulk creates pathways and moves seeds around, it's manure fertilises, it brings other animals all the way down the chain

[@wolfmauler]

@@manfrombritain6816 The folks on the hysterical end of the spectrum, concerning the topic of climate would go ape sh** over the amount of methane a Mammoth can generate 🤭

[@annikee5925]

So glad you're back! The second bout wasn't as bad as the first, but it hung around for weeks after. Best of luck, good health to you Arith.

[@pauladee6937]

So grateful for the knowledge and wisdom you pass on. Sending healing vibes,Feel better fast.

[@Sheepdog1314]

thank you Arith

[@sandrashevel2137]

Thank you.

[@MrEnaric]

I love this subject! It's a giant field to explore! Precious that this still survived in lore.Respect for you going ahead with your plans and videos anyway. This cognition gnawing side effect from (long) Covid is underestimated big time and scary as hell. I seriously think I lost some IQ points the last years and short time memory is, well, diminished. Hope you may recover or retain yours: May your ravens of thought and memory roost where they belong: in your Thought- Cage. Vérþu heilir!

[@2dazla8]

Thank you for this interesting and informative video. I enjoy using herbs in my rituals as offerings and in making oils. This was fantastic information. Also, I am glad you are doing better and truly, your mentation appears excellent!

[@pauladee6937]

Arith! Grateful for you! You said, "This Distinction has not been as clear as it is today." Knowledge will come through to us. ( If we have heart, spirit and ears to hear). Are you remembering, it is acceptable to take care of ourselves first? otherwise, we have nothing let to give to others...

[@reneecarrier2440]

Hoping you’re feeling better. After reading the poem , a possible suggestion for « wergulu » might be wild lettuce, (Lactuca virosa), it’s sap (latex) is a natural source of pain medicine.

[@bethysbarn]

I’m so grateful for this video 🥰❤️❤️❤️ I’ve been hoping for a video like this from one of my favourite creators and finally one did it! 🥰❤️ so yay! Thank you so much! ❤ hope you’re better soon! Xx

I'm very happy yo have provided this information to you :D cheers! Be well and have a great day. Thank you!

[@lorilea3188]

I have been anticipating this herb talk too, and hope Arith will provide a bibliography. I am particularly glad for the mention of Angelica, one of my favorite european herbs. The following is from A Modern Herbal from Mrs. Grieve : "---History---Its virtues are praised by old writers, and the name itself, as well as the folk-lore of all North European countries and nations, testify to the great antiquity of a belief in its merits as a protection against contagion, for purifying the blood, and for curing every conceivable malady: it was held a sovereign remedy for poisons agues and all infectious maladies. In Couriand, Livonia and the low lakelands of Pomerania and East Prussia, wild-growing Angelica abounds; there, in early summer-time, it has been the custom among the peasants to march into the towns carrying the Angelica flower-stems and to offer them for sale, chanting some ancient ditty in Lettish words, so antiquated as to be unintelligible even to the singers themselves. The chanted words and the tune are learnt in childhood, and may be attributed to a survival of some Pagan festival with which the plant was originally associated. After the introduction of Christianity, the plant became linked in the popular mind with some archangelic patronage, and associated with the spring-time festival of the Annunciation. According to one legend, Angelica was revealed in a dream by an angel to cure the plague. Another explanation of the name of this plant is that it blooms on the day of Michael the Archangel (May 8, old style), and is on that account a preservative against evil spirits and witchcraft: all parts of the plant were believed efficacious against spells and enchantment. It was held in such esteem that it was called 'The Root of the Holy Ghost.'"

[@djangoklee6851]

The neanderthals consumed plants containing penicillin ;)

[@bethysbarn]

@@djangoklee6851 amazing! Thank you! 🥰❤️❤️

[@bethysbarn]

@@lorilea3188 wow thank you! 🥰❤️❤️❤️ this video truly has been a dream lesson in herbs for me! ❤️❤️

[@mtheinvincible4156]

This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for this. Speedy healing to you, brother!

[@michellegates7083]

Hope you feel better soon!!

[@violetsidhe]

This was a fascinating video. I hope you feel better soon. So far I haven’t caught covid yet sadly my husband and boys had it is last year.

[@rachelplank3824]

3 g mugwort leaf, allow to streep for 4 minutes remove mugwort. Add 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 cinnamon stick. Enjoy before bed. This is what i used while recovering from some severe strep throat and covid. It worked wonders (also the visions were extremely vivid while i was dreaming) be careful though, it may cause vivid nightmares. Just be sure to be in a good headspace before taking it. 🥰 Thank you for all your amazing content you are mine and my husbands favorite person to watch on here!

[@catherineprater1485]

Take care Arith! The study of herbs can be quite fascinating. Thanks for sharing this information.

[@corawalkswithdogs330]

Thank you for this video! I’m happy to see you’ve made it through covid. It can take a long time to recover!

[@Naivara454]

Same…… I just got Covid for the first time…. It is unpleasant. Glad you are better!

[@paultodd7806]

The German army shirts was made of of the common nettle during WW1. Don’t eat after August but can be put in hot baths to help circulation and sore legs👍

[@andrewherrick9322]

I’m so glad you’re back making videos! But I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been I’ll. Hopefully your road to recovery is quite short. Your content is beyond incredible and I greatly appreciate the amount of respect you take when presenting this material. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@TheSpencersobservingthepeople]

Loved this speech on medicine. The serpent portion of your lecture was fantastic and made me think of where modern medicines came from and the symbols still used today. From ancient civilizations, Egypt and Greece had some of the same "sciences" of medical ideas that they all were passed around from peoples to peoples across the euro/Asiatic globe. "The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example, by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings." The medical symbol still used in medicine today.

[@williamfreeman8197]

I love this video! can you please do a video on the Húsvættir and landvættir their differences and how to work with them

[@annieg3489]

Thank you for the video, enjoyed the topic and I hope you do feel much better real soon😊

[@theGknife]

Get better soon brother

[@cellistina760]

Awe - hope you feel better soon Arith! Thank you for doing this video - as always you are an inspiration.

[@jeepwj]

Love this! I use all kinds of herbs in my workings...this video just showed up in my feed and I'm now watching your other videos! New subscriber! 😊😊❤️❤️

[@anthonyhudson3158]

Great video. Get well soon

[@annieg3489]

I saw a documentation recently here in Germany about a doctor who had problems after a harsch covid infect. It was mentioned that many patients develop micro clots in their blood which causes alot of problems. He was given a sort of bloodwash, it is still experimental but it worked with him. Maybe something to consider if the problems persist to discuss with your medical advisors

[@apothecareyarts4076]

Thank you for making this video! And best wishes for continued healing and restoration.

[@iainmelville9411]

Thank goodness you have completed the Covid journey. May the big C never darken your doorstep again. Stay well and safe.

[@colinp2238]

Most interesting. Keep warm and get well soon, take plenty of liquids.

Hello my dear friend, how have you been doing? I take the opportunity to wish you a wonderful and very happy new year. Hope things are going smoothly in your life.

[@colinp2238]

@Arith Härger Things are fine, thanks. I'm more concerned with you as you seem to be going through a rough time. Stay positive.

[@ElektraVersifier]

Wundervoll 👏🏻

[@bridgetkorns8174]

Aww sensing you love and healing. Hope your recovery from Covid and the cognitive fog people report is swift.

[@kathyevans3251]

It was really fascinating. The place I work is getting an exhibit on Vikings.This information is truly helpful.

[@sonny5087]

I stumbled across a couple of your videos and in my opinion, you provide the best source of historical context and information on these subjects. Thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into these videos, and I hope you recover from COVID soon!

[@TheTarotBizMentor]

Excellent training thanks Arith. I also hope your health recovers, get well soon 💕

[@jamesmyers4133]

Thank you brother....keep up the good work...the more all learn the better...peace

[@anyatranter5588]

Beautiful music and a lovely charm.

[@annasjourney]

1st time to your channel, so you may already know. . . Ashwagandha helped in a tremendous way in healing my covid symptoms. I was surprised how well it worked to heal my lungs! I used a tincture, twice a day diluted in water that I thanked and blessed first!

[@NyxinOwl]

Sending you love, warmth, restoration and tranquility. You are a blessed ⛯ lighthouse to the darkness of the abyss and are appreciated in this realm and beyond. Be well beloved.

[@soleplease1824]

Thank you and get well soon!

[@LadyAbstract]

I ended up getting the C virus as well. The day after Jan 1st i started feeling horrible. Come to find out it was that. I do feel like its harder to concentrate now and things dont smell or taste the same. Anyway tho hope you reach a full recovery

[@blackthornsloe8049]

I had the same experience with covid . It lingers and hits the body in a very unpleasant way . Deep healing to you .

[@brianneb7691]

Feel better soon! ❤️

[@morganacrows9974]

Ounn gratidão amor. Eu fui atrás da Angélica quando você falou sobre ela no vídeo da Deusa Eir. Eu tomei chá de alho poro para aumentar minha imunidade, quando estava igual a vc rsrs, e me ajudou bastante. Seus Rituais de Cura continuam aqui rsrs 🐍🐍💜💜🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@jonrosell6971]

This was great! Would love more videos on Norse plants and herbalism!

[@cesar_hakon]

Ótimo vídeo, com a profundidade necessária. Parabéns pelo trabalho sempre Artih! Ainda bem que sarou do Covid bem... Tivemos na família tbm. Abraço

[@gregorydejean8389]

13:28 I’m so sorry you’re still not completely well, but I *know* you will be soon! As always, you are an extremely interesting speaker and, obviously, a highly intelligent man: Everything of which you spoke was very lucid. (Please take care of yourself and eat raw garlic regularly, along with taking daily saunas, my Friend!) Perhaps one day soon I’ll travel to your part of Earth and we can meet: It would be an honor…

[@margaretwebster2516]

Take it easy and concentrate on getting well.

[@TheKimieko]

Thank You

[@rhondahankins4026]

Mugwort is also used in Chinese acupuncture. It is made into condensed sticks and small pieces of it are placed on the top end of the needles and burned during a session; not always but seemingly for specific purposes known by the practitioner. It is also lit like an incense stick and held over specific acupuncture points in the body to help in the healing. We used it on our daughter daily for therapy in her beginning years of a thyroid disease she had. With the use of acupuncture, mugwort, and herbs she was brought into remission and has stayed that way for over a dozen years now. The herbs we used were: bugleweed, Melissa, motherwort, skullcap, and Hawthorn. A couple others were added at certain points during therapy, but those listed above were the main ones used throughout.

[@callunaherissonne662]

So moxa is mugwort? That's great to find out. I love the smell, found it really helpful when I was having acupuncture. One to add to my herb garden 🌱

[@SandieCastaneda]

Salud!

[@morganacrows9974]

Amor, ameii amei. Gratidão. Eu uso muita Camomila. Oferto a Freya e as Valquirias 🤘🏻💜🔥🔥

[@larrsonarrows2169]

hang in there buddy .

Hopefully not as a sacrifice to Odin :b

[@larrsonarrows2169]

@ I think you're safe now you had covid it didn't work out they will have to try again.

[@tylertalley4652]

I’ve noticed in the eastern US that around burial mounds and homesites that many herbs like nettle, poke berry, which are considered the American nightshade, are all around. And many other healing plants and herbs are present like evening primrose, plantain, morning glory, golden rod and others. Most help purge infection and relieve inflammation.

[@redcrowdawn]

I wonder if "poison" means the plant detoxes a person to make/keep them healthy. Perhaps it compares with our use today of the word "toxic"?

[@johnhanson652]

Love mugwort aka Artemisia vulgaris..use it in shamanic .. tobacco ..mix Aztec tobacco+ ganja leaves..thanks for The info ... ginger root tea keeps. covid away.. 🔥🔥🔥..

[@eholmes1022]

chamomile is also very good for migraines either by making a tea of the flowers or by actually eating the flowers themselves

[@blacksunshine7122]

We have sting neddles here in the Pacific Northwest. They're pretty spicy to the touch. I had some experiences with them as a child. I was told fern pollen relieves the sting. I don't remember though. I'm pretty intimated by stinging neddles.

[@marksteven6116]

great

[@sarahgilbert8036]

The serpent is also draped around the modern medical symbol, so it's not all evil!

[@lindadunphyhernandez7638]

Lol Drs. Are not helpful in many issues simply drug pushers

[@Halga-Wulf]

The Nine Herbs in the 'Nine Herbs Charm' seems to be directed at the destroying of some form of 'poison' or 'infection', here also symbolised by the 'Adder' (Serpent). This is the 'foe that fares through the land', and could thus be some form of epidemic/pandemic. In the section on Woden there are different translations from Old English, but the obvious conclusion seems that the Adder 'bit a man' and that Woden smote it, breaking it into nine parts - breaking down its force and power. The phrase 'enter the house' is also interesting, the 'house' (in this instance) being maybe the body. Our English word 'rat' stems from a root meaning 'to leave the falling house'; it is symbolic of a powerful force that enters the 'house' (body or nation etc.), destroys it from within and then 'leaves the falling house' to move on and do the same elsewhere. This is also true of a virus which infects and is passed on from one person to the next. The phrase 'three and thirty' is also interesting, since here in England the Initiates expanded the runes to 33 Runes. Putting nine twigs together in a certain pattern does allow all 33 runes to be found in this pattern - a modern invention but the runes are not something stuck back in the Viking or Anglo-Saxon era, like us they evolve,

[@mariaekman13]

Etno-botanic..Cool.

[@pedrosarrico6948]

Vou fazer um cházinho de cidreira enquanto vejo o vídeo

[@Mairiain]

I'm Christian but of Anglo-Saxon, Scottish, and Scandinavian heritage, so it's fascinating to learn about all of this. In a way, it's learning more about my ancestors.

[@pe003]

Stephen pollington has an excellent book on the anglo Saxon medicine and herbel magic. Called leach craft

[@cheerdiver]

Everything said can be related to Hekate, who has two day in the Ides of March. She protects mankind from poisons, her moniker is the Skull over Crossed bones and a rotating hourglass. Should Nov, 13th fall on a Friday, it was a special occasion.