Wild Hunt
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Wild Hunt (plural Wild Hunts)
- A ghostly hunt that rides across the sky, common to English German and Scandinavian folklore.
- 1990, Michael Howard, Understanding Runes, ISBN 1 85538 013 7, page 35.
- In Germanic myth Woden, in common with his Nordic counterpart, was the leader of the spooky Wild Hunt which rides through the midwinter sky collecting the souls of the dead.
- 1993 The rites of Odin, Ed Fitch, Llewellyn Publications, ISBN 0-87542-224-1, pages 320.
- Throughout the Continent it was orginally she who led the dread and awesome Wild Hunt through the thick forest and the mid-night snows, leading ghosts, wolves, witches and elves.
- 1998, "The Raven's Call", in Heartland, volume 1 issue 3
- The night grew lighter as we welcomed the Aelfkin and Frey to join us, the Mothers we honoured and speeches made on Woden and the Wild Hunt.
- 1990, Michael Howard, Understanding Runes, ISBN 1 85538 013 7, page 35.
Translations[edit]
folk myth
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