Hi Maria! I bought your wonderful book The Seed of Yggdrasil a while ago and you have helped me greatly to research for my own book. I am hoping you can help me solve a puzzle - on page 42 you state that Snorri said that 'she (Freyia) still operates as a temple priestess even to this day, (which would be the 13th century). I have been unable to find the place in the Eddas or Sagas that states this and I would dearly like to know where it is? I have been lucky enough to become friends with Professor Ármann Jakobsson from the University of Iceland, so I wrote to him and he said that he seems to recall this somewhere but doesn't know himself where this statement would be from. So we would both be very pleased if you could solve this for us.😀 Thanks for your marvellous research, writing and videos! Bless bless, Dave ( Australia)
@@LadyoftheLabyrinthHi Maria, thanks for your reply😊 I am reading from the Íslenzk Fornrit edition and the English edition translated by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes (2011) they dont have line numbers in either unfortunately, is this the line you are pointing to in Ch 4 'Dóttir Njarðar var Freyja. Hon var blótgyðja. Hon kenndi fyrst með Ásum seið...'? I find your thinking and theories extremely refreshing and very credible, I love the fact that you have genuine spiritual insight into explaining the mysteries of these texts. That's why I'm really interested in this reference because I find it exciting to think that Freya could've been a real being and still practising in Iceland or Norway in Snorri's time. Cheers!
