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What (who) is volva - definition

FEMALE SHAMAN OF GERMANIC CULTURE AND MYTHOLOGY SAID TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO FORETELL FUTURE OCCURRENCES
Voelva; Seidhkona; Spae Wife; Spae-wife; Spaewife; Sejdmen; Seiðkona; Gandr; Útiseta; Spámaðr; Utiseta; Þuríðr Sundafyllir; Thuridr Sundafyllir; Spaekona; Spækona; Spæwīfe; Spæwife; Spæ; Spae; Spá; Fjölkunnig; Völva; Spákona
  • Faroe Islands stamp issued in 2003, depicting the ''Völuspá'' (Prophet)
  • Items discovered in the Öland gravesite
  • Frigg and Odin wagering against each other upon Hliðskjálf in ''Grímnismál'' (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]], in a parallel with how she tricked Odin at his window in the Lombard myth.
  • The banishment took when the Goths had settled north of the Black Sea.
  • An illustration of the woman who was buried with the wand from Klinta by Mats Vänehem (Swedish History Museum)
  • The seeress Veleda as painted by [[Jules Eugène Lenepveu]], 1883
  • Malleus meleficarum
  • The swirls of the First Cataract. Using them for prophesying may have been the reason why she was sent there.
  • fate]] at the foot of [[Yggdrasil]], the tree of the world. Beneath them is the well [[Urðarbrunnr]] with the two swans that have engendered all the swans in the world.
  • The Oseberg wagon was decorated with nine cats.
  • Both the sorcerer and supernatural creatures could ride spirits, ''gandir'', in the form of animals, such as the wolf.
  • An illustration of one of the meanings of ''gandreið'', a painting in the [[Schleswig Cathedral]].
  • Sculpture of the Germanic seeress Veleda, by Hippolyte Maindron, 1844, in [[Jardin du Luxembourg]], [[Paris]].

Volva         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Volva (disambiguation)
·noun A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
Volva (gastropod)         
GENUS OF MOLLUSCS
Volva (mollusc); Volva (genus)
Volva is a genus of sea snails, specifically cowry allies or ovulids, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae.WoRMS (2009).
Volva (mycology)         
  • The volva is the prominent cup-shaped feature at the base of this ''[[Amanita caesarea]]''.
  • A simplified diagram of an agaric-type basidioma in (A) the early development stage, and (B) after the body is fully expanded.  (1) is the universal veil, the outer layer protecting the developing basidioma; (4) is the volva, the remnant of the universal veil at the base of the basidioma.
MYCOLOGICAL STRUCTURE
Volvate
In mycology, a volva is a cup-like structure at the base of a mushroom that is a remnant of the universal veil, or the remains of the peridium that encloses the immature fruit bodies of gasteroid fungi. This macrofeature is important in wild mushroom identification because it is an easily observed, taxonomically significant feature that frequently signifies a member of Amanitaceae.

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Seeress (Germanic)

In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery. They are also referred to with many other names meaning "prophetess", "staff bearer", "wise woman" and "sorceress", and they are frequently called witches or priestesses both in early sources and in modern scholarship.

They were an expression of the pre-Christian shamanic traditions of Europe, and they held an authoritative position in Germanic society. Mentions of Germanic seeresses occur as early as the Roman era, when, for example, they at times led armed resistance against Roman rule and acted as envoys to Rome. After the Roman Era, seeresses occur in records among the North Germanic people, where they form a reoccurring motif in Norse mythology. Both the classical and the Norse accounts imply that they used wands, and describe them as sitting on raised platforms during séances.

Ancient Roman and Greek literature records the name of several Germanic seeresses, including Albruna, Veleda, Ganna, and, by way of an archaeological find, Waluburg. Norse mythology mentions several seeresses, some of them by name, including Heimlaug völva, Þorbjörg lítilvölva, Þordís spákona, and Þuríðr Sundafyllir. In North Germanic religion, the goddess Freyja has a particular association with seeresses, and there are indications that the Viking princess and Rus' saint, Olga of Kiev, was one such, serving as a "priestess of Freyja" among the Scandinavian elite in Kievan Rus' before they converted to Christianity.

Archaeologists have identified several graves that appear to be the remains of Scandinavian seeresses. These graves contain objects such as wands, seeds with hallucinogenic and aphrodisiac properties, and a variety of items indicating high status.

Societal beliefs about the practices and abilities of seeresses would contribute to the development of the European concept of "witches", because their practices survived Christianization, although the practitioners became marginalized, and evolved into north European mediaeval witchcraft. Germanic seeresses are mentioned in popular culture in a variety of contexts. In Germanic Heathenry, a modern practice of Germanic pagan religion, seeresses once again play a role.