Spirals show the flow of energy and the cycles of life. The polarities are shown to spiral inward and outward-as above, so below. Crosses illustrate the energetic crossing or coming together of polarities of energies, such as female and male or light and dark. The cross represents eternal life and serves as a bridge to the higher, or stellar, self,

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As agents of fate, the Valkyries also have obvious links with the Norns, and Snorri even says that the “youngest” Norn, Skuld, rides with the Valkyries to choose the slain. In a strange battle poem called The Web of Spears, dating to either the tenth or eleventh centuries, a troupe of twelve horse-borne Valkyries are seen dismounting to enter a

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Around the middle of the eighth century, c. 750, a Swedish maritime expedition came to violent grief on or near the island of Saaremaa off the coast of Estonia. We know this because of the chance discoveries from 2008 to 2012 of two boats full of dead warriors, buried by the seashore in what is now the village of Salme. They had been set up

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