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To: epicure who wrote (254891)	7/3/2014 2:15:01 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541763

<<<< I'm not going to argue with the uninformed and dogmatic (steve)>>>> Ahhh, I love you too. Sorry but your professor was wrong. From the very first sentence from your link (they both seem to be the same); Seiðr (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr or seith) is an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practised in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. So the Viking period begins at the end of the Iron Age. So you are talking pre-Viking age. I'm talking the Vikings! Epicure what you neeed to understand about the Vikings is what it was that made them so damn powerful. They were for their time a World Super Power. For an itsy bitsy country, that is pretty fucking impressive. One of the things that made them so darn dangerous is that they didn't fear their gods. They didn't have the morality hangups other religions did. They talked to their gods constantly. But their gods were not a deities they feared - like the Christian God. See, even I capitalize God here - the fear!! The fear that was absent in the Viking gods. Remember what your link said on your first post on this subject - your link, not mine; <<<<To the Norse, the gods were friends, or even distant family, to whom one turned both in good times and bad>>> en.wikipedia.org