seiðkona

plural seiðkonas · plural seiðkonur · alternative seidkona

1. GermaniclifestyleA female practitioner of seiðr; a seeress; a witch.

   Coordinate term: seiðmann

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   People ask me, as a seidkona, how they can hear the gods, and I say: start with silence.

   2009, Galina Krasskova, Raven Kaldera, quoting Gudrun of Mimirsbrunnr, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner: A Book of Prayer, Devotional Practice, and the Nine Worlds of the Spirit, page 90

   The other reading shows the whale as a part of the hugr of the women, with the whale shape (and possibly the storm) created by the seidkonas.

   2011, Katie Gerrard, Seidr - The Gate Is Open: Working with Trance Prophecy, the High Seat, and Norse Witchcraft, page 71

   Frithiof's Saga tells of two seiðkonur (women who know seiðr) hired to drown some enemies of their paymaster at sea.

   2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, page 91

   Synonyms: völva