trefot

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noun

A three-armed spiral symbol used in Heathenry to represent the god Woden or the Norns.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nountrefot (plural trefots)

plural trefots

  1. GermaniclifestyleA three-armed spiral symbol used in Heathenry to represent the god Woden or the Norns.

    1993 Our Troth, by the Ring of Troth and other true folk, The Ring of Troth, →ISBN, page 668. Trefot - also called triskelion (swirling form).

    2 more examples

    1984 Futharc A Handbook of Runic Magic, Eldred Thorson, Weser, →ISBN, page 108. Trefot - dynamic power from the three realms of being and the threefold evolutionary force.

    1997 Theod Volume IV Number 1 (Heathen Journal), Two Charms Against Dwarves, Eric Lord Wodening. If so we can be assured that the crosses were substituted for some heathen symbol, valkntR, trefot or fylfot.

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