Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 77: For the Alcohol Spirits

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This request was made by Maleck for the Alcohol Spirits.

Hail to the Alcohol Spirits!

Mead, wine, beer, ale

Vodka, whiskey, absinthe, moonshine

To the brewed, distilled, and fermented Ones!

Hail to Kvasir’s Kin

Brewed by blood and spit

Made with magic and megin

Hail to Yeast’s Children

Who feast upon sugar and convert its contents

Yielding the blessed brews!

Hail to the Living Spirits

Who gift insight and intuition through imbibing

Intoning the seer through Your songs!

Hail to the Holy Spirits

Who bring vision and virtue in verse

Clearing the way for the poets’ power

Hail to the Wandering Spirits

Who have crossed the Worlds in wonder

Courage and comradery following Your course

Hail to the Power-wielding Spirits

Whose bodies bear magic, megin, and medicines

Sharing strength sustained through Your sacrifice

Hail to the Generous Ones

Whose offered lykr brings luck

Worthy gift in Gebo to the Ginnreginn

Hail to the Alcohol Spirits!

Cider, lager, tequila, gin

Liquer, cognac, brandy, bitters

To the brewed, distilled, and fermented Ones!

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 76: For Máni

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This request was made by Cunnian for Máni.

Oh blessed, beautiful, dancing God

Whose gray shirt gleams in the night

Hands that caress the shores and waters

Coursing the wax and wane of magic and megin

Hard-rider from Hati’s maw

Whose trails trace the path of reckoning

Graces the sky with His cargo

Crossing the clouds with the burden of His horses

Oh God Who is desired

Whose Face is sought with passion

By mortal and mána bjarnar

Shine and show love to those who are longing

Pale prophecy-shower

Whose wandering reveals wealth and wisdoms’ ways

Through the course of Your crossing

We schedule when to sew, strike, and seek

Oh dark and shining God

Son of Mundilfari and Brother of Sól

We seek You in moonlight and myrkr

To honor in sacrifice and song

Holy Máni

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 75: For the Nornir

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This request was made by Cunian for The Nornir.

Urðr Who arranged the loom

Verðandi Who moves the sword

Skuld Who tightens the weave

Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir!

Urðr Who arranged the pattern

Verðandi Who brings in the rows

Skuld Who leaves thread at the end

Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir!

Urðr Who fastened the warp

Verðandi Who keeps an even tension

Skuld Who ties up the loose ends

Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir!

Urðr Who prepared the weft

Verðandi Who forms the patterns

Skuld Who trims the edges

Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir! Hail Nornir!

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 74: For Chamomile

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This request was made by Maleck for Chamomile.

Hail Chamomile

Whose scent is warm and sweet

Whose taste is cozy and inviting

Whose touch is tender and kind

Hail Chamomile

Who eases nerves

Who brings peace

Who brings sleep

Hail Chamomile

Whose name is Baldsbrá and earth apple

Whose flowers bloom white and yellow

Whose body is green and soft

Hail Chamomile

Who soothes spirits

Who smoothes conversation

Who relaxes the mind

Hail Chamomile

Who opens the ways of communication

Who eases the souls for travel

Who heals and helps the spirits’ recovery

Blessed Chamomile, help me to know peace

Blessed Chamomile, help me to listen and be heard

Blessed Chamomile, thank You for Your every gift

May good Gebo always be between us!

Ves Þú heil!

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 73: For Eir

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This request was made by Precious Fire for Eir. I felt called to make two prayers when I wrote this.

For the Teacher of Healers

The joining of bone to bone and flesh to flesh

The joining of herb and water

The joining of fire and words

You have taught healers Their Craft

The separation of flesh from flesh and body from body

The separation of splinter and skin

The separation of aches and sores

You have taught healers Their Craft

The creation of compound from compound and skin from skin

The creation of medicine and poison

The creation of healing and power

You have taught healers Their Craft

The teaching of health from health and sickness from sickness

The teaching of recovery and wholeness

The teaching of care and hope

You have taught healers Their Craft

Hail Eir, Holy Healer!

Prayer 2: For the Healers, Doctors, and Staff

Because You learned from Menglöð

You have taught how to learn

Because You have studied from Menglöð

You have taught how to study

Because You have apprenticed from Menglöð

You have taught how to apprentice

May the Healer, the Doctor, the Staff who work to heal

Be Blessed by Your example

With cunning and craft, skill and studiousness, wit and wisdom

May They do well by Your worthy example

Hail Eir!

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 72: For The Saginaw River

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This request was made by Maleck for The Saginaw River.

Hail to the Sagniaw River

Who the Alongquin peoples call Sagenog, the place of the outlet

Who I call Vatnausastaðr, the place where the water flows

May Your waters ever shine

May Your banks ever hold

May Your path ever be clear

Fed by the Tittabawasee and the Shiawassee rivers

Who feeds the mighty Lake Huron in turn

May You ever flow, beautiful river

You, Who has ever seen boats up and down Your length

You, Who have carried canoe, steamer, and industrial ships

You, Who have carried generations on generations of fish

Hail to You, O Blessed One

Whose Waters quench, transport, cleanse, and bless

Whose Waters are holy and full of good megin

Mighty Goddess, may we live in good Gebo

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 71: For Tyr

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This request was made by Emi for Tyr.

Flames lick the sky, Muspel burning bright

The hoary frost loosing the river’s run

Ýmir’s blood bloomed behind You

Your Name brings victory, twice signed on spear and sword

So too the Brothers’ blades were bloodied

Red-marked Runes wrought Their ruin

When the waters receded, rede You gave

Foundations were placed, great posts dug deep

Hófs and walls rose resolute

In council You sat among the Æsir

Your wisdom was worked in law and war

Blessing the holmgang rite and law-rock

Fierce and hungering was the Wolf whelp

By Your hands was He raised on red meat

Loving devotion to the Dire Wolf

When Fenris grew fear could not find You

Though His fangs grew long and maw mighty

You persevered in Your compassion and care

True You stayed to Your Son

Oathing hand given for the biting bind

Tears to the treachery

You teach the truths of legality and loyalty

To each test You bless with bravery

When choice is razor and rock

Yours is wisdom’s edge sliced in stone

Relentless, Your strop hones the hearty

Who seek Your guidance and gift

Týr is the name of surety and severity

Whose echo calls the weapon worthy in war

Who forges mind and magic in Fire and cools them by Ice

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 70: For Freyr Victorious

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This request was made by Maleck for Freyr, returning victorious from the Mound.

The roads of Hel are known to me

Over the Bridge and through forest and field

I walk with the knowledge of ancient paths

Tread by my blood-soaked feet

The ways between are trod in silence

Vitality in each step, and life springing forth

I walk and life returns in my steps from Death

Antler swaying on a cord at my side

Helheim’s lands roll up to the frozen ground

Ice stretches beyond the horizons and snow blankets all

I walk and little mosses grace my passing

Steam cleansing my warming corpse

Fire graces my bare chest and plants warm kisses

Nerves and sinew stretch and reach and sigh

I walk and ashes cling to my steps

My fingers grace dark wood that breathes new life

The noiseless yawn moves the air

Potential and nothing settle peace in my heart and mind

I walk between a roiling river and the liminal breath

My path winding about the current’s course

The deep dark earth welcomes my journey

Singing picks and voices accompany my torchlit steps

I walk by and see the forges and yards of mighty crafters

Passing, my gaze full of witness to glory and might

Forests line the mouth’s exit

Silvery voices welcome me home and bid me stay

I walk in silence, refusal spoken in my stride

My hof’s door left open for my return

Trackless woods and deep valleys invite me

Animals saunter and monsters track my way

I walk without fear among the Jötnar home

For my gifts bring peace and life to Them as well

Fields of wheat wave in greeting to me

Orchards and lakes and sagging bushes thank my passing

I walk in fertile places that I have renewed

My birthplace heralds my passage and bids me return

The peaks of homes kiss the clouds and the walls open their arms

Work and war clash around my ears, familiar calls ring out

I walk unbound in the halls and gaze upon the seeing seat

Memories follow me on the rainbow road

The expanse of Jörð invites me, finally

The blood-stained sickle gripped in my wet-eyed wife’s hand

I walk and lie in the mound She has made and breathe

Reborn and victorious I rise again

Patreon Poem/Prayer Song 72: For Jörmungandr

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This request was made by Emi for Jörmungandr.

The waves lap around me

Over me

Under me

Encircle, encircle, encircle

The enchantment drives my paths

Horses small as plankton gallop

Over me

To me

Running, running, running

Desperation nips their feet

Rán and Her Daughters play with me

Over me

With me

Surging, surging, surging

Laughter shared between us

Icy waters soothes me

Over me

In me

Caressing, caressing, caressing

Fiery pain quenches in the cool

Warm waters invigorate me

Over me

Around me

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Tension melts in the heat

Oceans flow about me

Against me

From me

Rocking, rocking, rocking

Waves roll across the waters by my might

Your waters flow from me

Along me

Beyond me

Flowing, flowing, flowing

Waters cross from ocean to river to tap

I flow across the waters

Along them

Throug them

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Miðarðr’s living protection at the oceans’ crossing

Patreon Poem/Prayer/Song 71: For Freyja Seiðkona

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This request was made by Maleck for Freyja Seiðkona.

Freyja! Freyja! Freyja!

Seiðkona! Seiðkona! Seiðkona!

Varðlokkur-bearer! Seið-teacher! Gandr-wielder!

Teach me what I must do

To sing the varðlokkur songs that bring and ward

To work good and powerful seiðr

To take up and use gandr wisely

Teach me the ways to do

To call vaettir and make magic

To break and lay curses and boons

To bear power and use it with wisdom

Teach me the tools I must have

To wield megin well

To find and fetter my foes

To bless and empower my allies

Teach me the ways You will

To make taufr crafted with skill and megin

To make my Soul Parts strong and resilient

To make me Fjólkyngismaðr

Please, teach me Your Ways, Freyja Seiðkona!

Please, teach me the varðlokkur!

Please, teach me seiðr!

Please, teach me to work and wield gandr!

Hail! Hail! Hail!

Freyja Seiðkona!