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[@SeekerOfWisdom]

Learning Icelandic... im in. Great video, really gave me alot to think about

[@EihwazInitiations]

Excellent! Stay tuned and I’ll be putting something together, regarding the language. When you’re done pondering what I brought up re read the völuspa, there’s more, these are just my favorite examples.

[@akaylindsay]

The insight about Norns carving onto the wood/skin of a human...!!! Mmm. So good.

[@EihwazInitiations]

+akaylindsay I think it’s a unique perspective, glad you enjoyed it!

[@scarysota63]

I would like to learn Icelandic. I am studying Old Norse now with medieval reconstructed pronunciation so I think I won’t get too confused, lol, Thank you for sharing your experiences with seiðr and útiseta - as well as tying them into Vǫluspá. And I haven’t encountered dwarves yet.

[@EihwazInitiations]

+Merissa Lovett you’ll meet some dwarves sooner than later. What resources are you using to learn ON?

[@foxtayle.]

I would be very interested in learning old norse!

[@EihwazInitiations]

+Fox Richard stay tuned I’ll be putting something together!

[@thorashebear7604]

Great video! I like the idea of having a group like that.

[@kiltedlover]

I've been thinking about learning Old Norse and I've tried contacting the dwarves before, but didn't have any luck. Still working on intent in my journeying, but I finally saw one when I was looking for Odin in a journey, ironically, and he was sitting in a stone throne up in the mountains where I found Odin. I had been looking in Svartalfheim and I found one up in some mountains. Didn't say anything to me, but I have to get back to trying to contact them eventually

[@EihwazInitiations]

+Dave Anderson intent is key, but if you’re looking for dwarves you’re sure to find them in Nidvallir, first you gotta get there.

[@kiltedlover]

@@EihwazInitiations Kurt has me working on intent. I'm getting better at it. I learned how to journey by accident. I received a vision and then tried using the bindrune that was sent to me that put me into a vision and it worked twice in a row. Now I'm using drums to journey with as well. I'm still learning to fine tune and use intent, though sometimes it's spontaneous and takes on a life of its own. Sometimes I know I'm meant to see certain things regardless of where I want to go.

[@EihwazInitiations]

Dave, in my experience intent gets you to the start of the journey, but once there you really only control you and yourself.

[@lexy5661]

I would definitely be interested in a language study group!

[@EihwazInitiations]

Something is in the works!

[@heatherf2609]

I would love to learn both! :)

[@EihwazInitiations]

+Heather F yeah me too, where to start?

[@dawningRAIN]

Hey Matt I hope you and your family are doing ok~ Haven't seen you upload in awhile. Loved the video as always :-)

[@EihwazInitiations]

I’ll be getting after it again in a couple weeks, between work and the homestead I’m running a bit ragged, I did recently do a 4 week challenge to learn the Anglo Saxon runes...

[@dawningRAIN]

@@EihwazInitiations Take care of yourself as well :-) Glad to hear from you, did the challenge with my husband. We've felt the same way as of late between work, home, family and the garden. Thank you for the reply!

[@kristinortiz3704]

Would love lessons on Icelandic or Old Norse.

[@EihwazInitiations]

It’s looking like I’ll be putting something together for this.

[@anointingofseer2596]

Great video. Dwarf, Norse dvergr, female form dyrgja from: dyrr ( door) and gja ( opening in the ground). So I guess dwarf was perhaps originally a name for the entrance to the burial mounds, a place where our ancient forebears placed the bodies of there dead. I don't really see the Völuspá as a creation story, just because there was no linear world view in ancient Europe more so circular no beginning no end, everything in nature repeats itself. And when you look at Norse/ Germanic mythology it really acknowledges it.

[@EihwazInitiations]

+Finnleifi ᛟᚷᛊ I agree with the circular nature but it does describe A beginning then an end and the start to the next lap. Interesting thought about the etymology of dwarf.

[@anointingofseer2596]

@@EihwazInitiations ,yes that's true. I guess I'm just partial to eradicating any christian influence in the poem that some scholars have theories on.

[@frogwalkerworld3547]

For the parts when you read directly from books, it would be nice to have subtitles.

[@EihwazInitiations]

Because you couldn’t hear me? I’ll see if I can add now that it’s uploaded

[@frogwalkerworld3547]

@@EihwazInitiations Yeah exactly. Sometimes the audio is muffled.

[@davidbeck9045]

Drops app teaches icelandic im learning now

[@EihwazInitiations]

Thanks I’ll look into this

[@VanNessFam4]

I think it a great idea to be able to read directly from the source. Everyone interprets through a different lens. As I mentioned in th FB group... I wonder at how much of the story as we have it was altered by the Christians that wrote it down?

[@EihwazInitiations]

+VanNessFam4 definitely being able to read it first hand makes a huge difference, even the translators leave their mark as they all seem to differ in significant ways.

[@jms_John_S]

I would love to learn Icelandic or Old Norse.

[@EihwazInitiations]

Great, I'll be purring something together, stay tuned!

[@KingofHearts2022]

Look up Jackson Crawford here on KZbin he has video lessons on Old Norse

[@EihwazInitiations]

He’s great!