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' (pronounced [ˈoːʂgɔŋ]) is an archaic form of Swedish divination. It is sometimes translated as the year walk or yearly round'.

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' (pronounced [ˈoːʂgɔŋ]) is an archaic form of Swedish divination. It is sometimes translated as the year walk or yearly round'.

According to Swedish researcher Tommy Kuusela, was a complex form of divination in Swedish folk tradition, usually practiced at Christmas or New Year’s Eve. The phenomena could vary greatly regionally or even in the same district, but the general course was the same: if the practitioners ("year walkers") had managed to follow certain instructions and to solve particular challenges (such as encounters with supernatural beings), they would catch glimpses of what would happen the following year.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Årsgång” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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