Re: complex definition question

Yeah, got it.  Thought it was that blasted Earthlink.  It is routinely delivering stuff after 16 hours delay.

Jamie Fessenden wrote:

This is weird.  Did everybody just get this?  I sent this post back in May -- not this weekend.  It must have been resent by the mail server, somehow.

 

Jamie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Fessenden
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:55 AM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [norse_course] complex definition question

It is sometimes interpretted as meaning "effeminite" or "homosexual,"
but that may have been a case of the translators allowing their own
cultural bias to color the translation.  I haven't yet found a clear
definition of the word, in the context of Snorri's passage.  It's been
speculated (see the article by Neil Price, in the Smithsonian's
"Vikings:  The North Atlantic Saga") that only women (and possibly
homosexual men) practiced Seidhr -- a form of divination, in which the
practitioner enters into a shamanic trance state, to communicate with
the dead.  Odin, of course, was an exception to the rule, but Loki
teases him about it in Lokasenna.

Jamie

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