Noun: seidr
Sample Sentences
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In the later sagas, the kind of seidr practiced has more in common with spiritualistic trance mediumship. [1988, Freya Aswinn, Runes & Feminine Powers: Northern Mysteries & Magick, page 207:]
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Women were not the exclusive workers of Freyja’s seidr. [1995, D. J. Conway, Moon Magick: Myth & Magick, Crafts & Recipes, Rituals & Spells, page 26:]
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Descriptions of seidr within modern paganism are unsurprisingly equally as difficult to pin down and define. [2008, Katie Gerrard, “The Seer: A Journey Through the High Seat”, in Sorita D'Este, editors, Priestesses Pythonesses Sibyls: The Sacred Voices of Women Who Speak with and for the Gods, page 91:]
Nouns inflected like seidr
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse seiðr. See: Old Norse Nouns '
seiðr'.