Lítilvölva (The Last Seeress of Greenland) | Old Norse Viking Ritual Music

If you liked the music, buy the full album and support independent Viking music. https://erilazrites.bandcamp.com/albu... Old Norse Viking ritual music about Thorbjorg, the seeress of Greenland, and the young Gudrid who sang the varðlokkur, the songs that call the spirits, in Eirik the Red's Saga. Mystical Nordic folk and pagan seiðr music with an ethereal female voice, whispered choir, bone rattles, heartbeat shaman drum and kulning, for meditation, sleep and deep focus. The eighth ritual of Erilaz Rites, for everyone who loves Viking history and Norse culture: a famine winter, a seeress, and a Christian woman who sang to the spirits. Around the year 1000, the Norse colony in Greenland was starving. The hunts had failed and men had not returned. The farmer Thorkel sent for Thorbjorg, the "little völva", the last of nine sister seeresses. She arrived in a blue cloak set with stones, a hood of black lambskin lined with white catskin, catskin gloves, and a staff with a brass knob. But for her seiðr she needed someone who knew the varðlokkur, and no one did. Only Gudrid, newly arrived from Iceland, had learned them from her foster mother. She refused at first: she was a Christian woman. In the end she sang, and so beautifully that no one there had ever heard a fairer voice. The seeress said that spirits came which had always fled from her before. She foretold that the famine would end with spring, and that from Gudrid would come a bright and noble lineage. Spring came. Gudrid later sailed to Vinland, gave birth to the first European child born in the Americas, and among her descendants were bishops of Iceland. This is history as the sagas tell it: Eiríks saga rauða, chapter 4, written in Iceland in the 13th century. Gudrid was a real woman, and the grave of a seeress found at Fyrkat in Denmark, buried with a staff and henbane seeds, matches the saga's description. The words of the varðlokkur were never written down. The song is lost, so these words are ours. Only the seeress's farewell, «Far þú nú heil ok vel, dóttir mín», comes from the saga. Headphones on. If this ritual called you, subscribe and step into the circle. Leave a like, tell us in the comments where you are listening from, and turn on the bell so you never miss a new ritual. #VikingMusic #Seidr #Volva #Vardlokkur #NorseMusic #Greenland