{"product_id":"the-comparative-sigrdrifumal","title":"The Comparative Sigrdrífumál","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Comparative Sigrdrífumál: Historical rune magic, advice from a valkyrie, \u0026amp; a pagan prayer. “Branch-runes learn, if a healer wouldst be, And cure for wounds wouldst work; On the bark shalt thou write, and on trees that be With boughs to the eastward bent.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLinguistically dated to the late pagan period of the Viking Age, Sigrdrífumál is a fascinating poem that features the voice of a valkyrie, here called Sigrdrífa (meaning ‘victory-driver; victory-bringer’). Awoken from her thorn-induced slumber, the valkyrie recites a pagan prayer to the gods before offering a horn of drink and feverishly reciting intense wisdom and runic magic to the hero. Preserved in a fragmentary state, the poem is enigmatic not only for its mysticism and insight into the Younger Futhark, the Viking Age development of the runic alphabet, but also for the Hávamál-like wisdom it provides cloaked in ethereal and uncanny imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyldyr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45677374079055,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/3993\/5823\/files\/AEDA23DE-A76A-4087-BF3B-010EBA5338CB.jpg?v=1781211126","url":"https:\/\/toadmanalmanak.com\/products\/the-comparative-sigrdrifumal","provider":"Toadman Almanak","version":"1.0","type":"link"}