Warrior Initiation and Witch Teachers - Hidden Knowledge in Old Norse Myths pt.18

Biography (updated December 2020)
• Maria Kvilhaug Solstic...
Maria Kvilhaug (1975-) is the author of The Seed of Yggdrasill, The Maiden With The Mead and the Blade Honer series, as well as other books, articles and lecture videos on the LadyoftheLabyrinth KZbin Channel and her website bladehoner.wor...
Want more videos? Podcasts? Audio readings from her books? Check out her new Patreon page: / mariakvilhaug
Support the author and get exclusive content! Most of her works stem from her academic background in the historical, cultural, linguistic and religious aspects of pre-Christian Scandinavia. A Norwegian, born and bred, she writes most of her stuff in English in order to best reach an international audience. In order to earn more from her work so that she may finish book projects and make more videos and audio recordings of her books, she opened a Patreon account on Winter Solstice 2020.
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The last twelve years (and ongoing) of free labour for your benefit in the form of videos and articles, The Maiden with the Mead in PDF, as well as social media rants and randoms may be found on:
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• FREE UNIVERSITY THESIS: The Maiden with the Mead (University of Oslo Online Library Link) www.duo.uio.no.... SOCIAL MEDIA:
• LadyoftheLabyrinth Facebook Page: / ladyofthe.la. . • BLADE HONER: / bladehoner
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• The Seed of Yggdrasill: shop.the3littl....
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• The Poetic Edda - Six Cosmology Poems (to be re-published)
• The Trickster and the Thunder God - Thor and Loki in Old Norse Myths (to be republished)
MORE ON PATREON AND WHY YOU SHOULD BECOME A PATRON:
• Have you been missing more videos from the Lady of the Labyrinth KZbin page?
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• Are you among those who want to see those promised publications about Seidr, about Idunn, and about Initiation Stories, and so on?
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If so, you might want to help me out by sponsoring my Patreon page so that I might get the time and energy I need to offer up all that - in great abundance!
Themes I currently plan to cover in series of talks on Patreon:
• Traditional Norwegian Folksongs - Themes, Origins and Performances • Norwegian Folklore Stories
• Stories of Seid & Magic in the Sagas • Norse Mythology Stuff
• Readings from the Ynglinga saga
• Skaldskap - Our Oldest Literary Sources to Norse Mythology
• Readings from my books (fiction and non-fiction) - like Audio Book chapters, beginning with audio recordings chapter by chapter of the whole Blade Honer series - I pledge to publish some chapters every week - the intensity of which, however, depends on how much support and interest I get.
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LIST OF BOOKS • The Seed of Yggdrasill
• The Maiden with the Mead - A Goddess of Initiation in Old Norse Myths?
• The Trickster and the Thundergod - Thor and Loki in Old Norse Myths • The Hammer of Greatness (Blade Honer I)
• My Enemy´s Head (Blade Honer II)
• The Hel Rune´s Claim (Blade Honer III)
• A Twisted Mirror (Blade Honer IV)
• The Poetic Edda - Six Cosmology Poems
• Alle netter ni

[@lullabi3234]

You have the most Beautiful voice! Grabs deeper than a song...

[@MiriamMonroe]

I am so hooked on your work, hanging on your every word of wisdom.

[@kendraray3236]

Been listening to this playlist and taking notes for a couple weeks now - so excited to continue listening today as I prepare for teaching my dance class. Thank you for creating such a great resource of historical and anthropological information as well as helping to decode spiritual texts - a beautiful set of tools to help nourish the path to a higher consciousness; I am grateful I found you.

[@RomanAlboix]

I discovered your channel not long ago and I really love your videos!

[@00ddub]

Firstly, Thank You So Much for your work and for sharing your work!!! Secondly, it seems that when the male is still trapped in their fear, they see the woman in the story as a frightening monster. However, once they have successfully conquered their fear, they are now able to see the women as the beautiful maidens that they truly are and are reunited with their divine partners in a heavenly union and finally able to lead a fulfilling life. I just found your work but it resonates so strongly with my life path right now. Thank you again so much.

[@Iron_ReapeR]

when you said about a pattern about waking up, it remind me about waking up conciseness

[@biggers7683]

Another great video in the series. Thank you very much.

[@CCArtsNow]

Love & Appreciation:)

[@letsseesomeproof]

Excellent videos. Thank you. :)

[@LadyoftheLabyrinth]

@DandJ1998 Let us just say there has been a few summer holidays spent in library basements...fifteen years of study, luck enough that some of them happened as a student with nothing better to do since Norse myths were my subject... :)

[@jamieallen4146]

Sounds like this could be the origin of the fairytale of "sleeping beauty."

[@ThePacificNorseWest87]

I really appreciate you responding to my last question. You confirmed what I was thinking. I have another question, this may be completely off and wrong but go with me for a second. Could Alda and Ymir represent the age of Gemini? The cow that licks the ice and the Vanir being the age of Taurus? And the Æsir being the age of Aries and Ragnarok being the end of that age. I think Baldr represents the age of Pisces because he is all the best things of the gods. What I can’t decide though is who would represent the age of Aquarius. Is this a foolish idea? Am I stretching things too far?

[@geirhardurthorsteinsson6463]

Hi Maria. Just a thought from the top of my head: Do you think that this awakening of ones fate goddess might be the same as the awakening of the kundulinii or the kundulinii Thanks so much for all the videos :D

[@LadyoftheLabyrinth]

+Geirhardur Thorsteinsson Yes I think it may be connected ;)

[@robinbreeds9217]

kundalini is on a Rune Stone she is holding left and right two serpents the balancing of Ida and Pingala, kundaliniferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/the-snake-witch-stone/

[@BleuMoonAme]

The She-Wolf reminds me of Venus in astrology as it signifies likes and dislikes. What we dream about...wolves may represent dreams...or a vision quest. In the Kabbalah, the sefirot Yesod (Foundation) has been connected to the planet Venus often. Venus, the morning star...Curious as to whether you have ever looked into the similiarities of astrological interpretations with that of the Nordic deities...?

[@ArphenMaethor]

Correct me but Freya is said to teach seidr, also being the teacher of odin. On the other Hand it was Odin who found the runes and foundes galdr of which he is the superior teacher - and spellsongs ans such, runecrafting etc. would be the field of galdr not seidr

[@andrewjenkins9965]

Odin seems to have been a fan of learning, and so would have studied both.

[@erichwebb8312]

🌹

[@towerman3434]

Lady, I wish you could initiate me

[@artemis12061966]

A giantess called icy death?! has not wim hof (the iceman) mastered her? Even today most women are teachers.....it seems to be a biological impulse......dominant in females.

[@LadyoftheLabyrinth]

@ufogelfling1 Sexual harassment is never polite and yes, I would feel insulted. You are in fact hereby blocked. Go re-educate yourself.

[@johnriley3771]

I want you!

[@Yannick20antifa]

Ibid.