Witchcraft in Norway

In Old Norse, '''' (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith, or seid'') was a type of magic practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. The practice of is believed to be a form of magic which is related to both the telling and the shaping of the future. Connected to the Old Norse religion, its origins are largely unknown, and its practice gradually declined after the Christianization of Scandinavia. Accounts of later made it into sagas and other literary sources, while further evidence of it has been unearthed by archaeologists. Various scholars have d

mountain in Vardø, Norway