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It seems plausible to relate 'Seidr' to Sanskrit ' Siddhi', as the meaning of these concepts also are similar; together with the fairly close relationship between Sanskrit and the Norse language. I believe it is fairly uncontested that the Norse faith is perceived as a western branch of the old vedic philosophy.
I hope there are someone who may help me to substantiate this seemingly empirically fit theory of an etymological relation between 'Seidr' and 'Siddhi'. Or at least explain the premises of substantiation in regard of etymological references at wikipedia. I'm curious of what would actually be regarded substantial, cause to give etymological substantiation is pretty dubious in any case. I am very well aware of the rule of thumb that we are not to produce theoretical material first hand here at Wikipedia. But I find it a bit strange that theoretical suggestions of this kind are looked upon as a problem, as long as it is clearly stated that it is a suggestion, a possibility, a theory. I cannot see such suggestions as dangerous. I regard it as spice. It is to my mind a much graver problem that theories are presented as facts, no matter how well cited the statements are.
as the word 'seidr' is no longer in popular use. The only thing that really may substantiate the possible connection between the two concepts is to show the magnitude of links between Sanskrit and the Norse language, and other evident cultural similarities. -- Xact ( talk) 00:37, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
you might look into the Audhumla / Brahma connection. Quite literally, Aesier were the eastern gods of asia, so far as I was taught.
/info/en/?search=Au%C3%B0umbla
Rqpaine (
talk)
20:33, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
The evolutionary chronology of the Indo-European languages is far from clear, but there is agreement that the separation between the Germanic and Indo-Iranian branches is at least 3,000 years old. (See Indo-European languages# Diversification.) In Ringe & Warnow's analysis of the data, Proto-Indo-Iranian separated from the larger Indo-European family about 2000 BCE; Anthony puts it only about 200 years earlier but calculates the split-off of Pre-Germanic at circa 3300 BCE. Seiðr and siddhi are almost certainly false cognates.
Couldn't Seidr be related to the Dutch word zijde which means silk? Silk is often described as an almost-godly substance, and the words are pretty similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.146 ( talk) 19:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
There are all kinds of word pairs across languages that are "pretty similar" purely by coincidence and are not related at all. See
false cognate.
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Thnidu (
talk)
02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
This article is currently being used by me (in my capacity as a member of the Task Force/Improving Community Health group) as a case study of an article which has declined in quality over time despite having several hundred edits since its highwater mark in or around early 2005. Sjc ( talk) 05:14, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Well let's start with the intro. It's dumbed down considerably and just wrong; we only discover that seid might possibly have something to do with shamanism in the final paragraph.
Compare and contrast:
Seid (also seiðr, seidhr) was the form of shamanism practised by pre-Christian Norse and other Germanic cultures and continued in modern times by people who practice the reconstructionist beliefs of Ásatrú or heathenry. Practitioners of seid were predominantly women (Volva, or seidhkona, lit seidh-woman), although there were male practitioners (seidhmadhr, lit seidh-man) as well. The gods of Norse mythology were also practititioners of seid. In Anglo-Saxon tribes, practitioners of seid were referred to as wicca (m.) or wicce (f.). The Church opposed such activities and wicce evolved , as did the völvas, into the modern witch.
with
Seid or seiðr is an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery or witchcraft which was practiced by the pre-Christian Norse. Sometimes anglicized as "seidhr," "seidh," "seidr," "seithr," or "Seith," the term is also used to refer to modern Neopagan reconstructions Or Emulations of the practice
In the contemporary version the reader is led immediately into a number of flabby misconceptions: that it was an exclusively Norse practice and has more to do with Harry Potter than with what it primarily was about, at least according to all the supporting evidence that follows, which is divinatory magic, often predicated by trances of varying provenance. It's all downhill from there. It won't take you long to work out which is the contemporary cut. What it gains in concision it immediately loses in its inaccuracy and imprecision.
Seid is always going to be, as you so neatly pin it, a ho-hum sort of article, which is precisely what makes it interesting for my purposes for a very specific reason which is a close examination of things which need documenting but which are open to considerable interpretation and consequently present a fertile playing field for the multiplicity of edit-tinkerers, policy-warriors, and the like. The very nature of seid, being practiced clandestinely by adepts means necessarily that very little is documented and that all corroboration or assertions of corroboration are implicitly suspect. We can make intelligent constructions about what seid was from supportive documentation, mainly secondary or tertiary evidence or evidence which is circumstantial, or illustratively and explicitly fictionally narrative in nature Völuspá, the Saga of Erik the Red, or, in fact, the narration of Odin's direct experience of seid (albeit not usually recognised as such) in Hávamál whilst hanging from the tree for nine days. Sjc ( talk) 20:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out as a born and raised Icelandic, that I found the word seiðr throughout this article very confusing. Seiðr is old norse word for seiður in Icelandic. Seiður here seems to have the meaning of something magical that's etible. Seiður could come from the word sjóða(boil) although becuase of jó in sjóða, seiði should be spelled with y not i. Often when you meet people in Iceland that you know, you'll ask "Hvað er á seyði hér?" or "what's going on here?" or literally "What is on magically-happening here?" if there's a hairy situation going on.
Also when talking about magic folk. We do not talk about magic users and herbal magic users as the one and the same. Galdramaður literally magic man, explains to us a Gandalf type person but can also be used for a illusionists. Seyðkarl would be somebody like Getafix in the Asterix stories were he's brewing seiði/magical potion in a pot. He's called a druid in wikipedia so maybe that's the name for what seiðkall or seiðkona. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.4.113.33 ( talk) 06:46, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
The section "Origins" has a paragraph on "hellrúna" - but this isn't explicitly linked to the practice of seiðr in the text. Can the relevance to this article be established through sources? Davémon ( talk) 21:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Id like to open a discussion on the use of cannabis in seidhr.
Rqpaine ( talk) 20:31, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
I just want to know why this point has to be made 4-6 times in this entire article. We get it, sheesh. 2601:1C2:1701:4AB0:5543:213B:56E4:55CF ( talk) 05:54, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
I don't know what to make of the chunk of German language two lines at the end of the intro. It seems orphaned, without a lead-in or translation. Should it be in Etymology? Manytexts ( talk) 15:11, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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It seems plausible to relate 'Seidr' to Sanskrit ' Siddhi', as the meaning of these concepts also are similar; together with the fairly close relationship between Sanskrit and the Norse language. I believe it is fairly uncontested that the Norse faith is perceived as a western branch of the old vedic philosophy.
I hope there are someone who may help me to substantiate this seemingly empirically fit theory of an etymological relation between 'Seidr' and 'Siddhi'. Or at least explain the premises of substantiation in regard of etymological references at wikipedia. I'm curious of what would actually be regarded substantial, cause to give etymological substantiation is pretty dubious in any case. I am very well aware of the rule of thumb that we are not to produce theoretical material first hand here at Wikipedia. But I find it a bit strange that theoretical suggestions of this kind are looked upon as a problem, as long as it is clearly stated that it is a suggestion, a possibility, a theory. I cannot see such suggestions as dangerous. I regard it as spice. It is to my mind a much graver problem that theories are presented as facts, no matter how well cited the statements are.
as the word 'seidr' is no longer in popular use. The only thing that really may substantiate the possible connection between the two concepts is to show the magnitude of links between Sanskrit and the Norse language, and other evident cultural similarities. -- Xact ( talk) 00:37, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
you might look into the Audhumla / Brahma connection. Quite literally, Aesier were the eastern gods of asia, so far as I was taught.
/info/en/?search=Au%C3%B0umbla
Rqpaine (
talk)
20:33, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
The evolutionary chronology of the Indo-European languages is far from clear, but there is agreement that the separation between the Germanic and Indo-Iranian branches is at least 3,000 years old. (See Indo-European languages# Diversification.) In Ringe & Warnow's analysis of the data, Proto-Indo-Iranian separated from the larger Indo-European family about 2000 BCE; Anthony puts it only about 200 years earlier but calculates the split-off of Pre-Germanic at circa 3300 BCE. Seiðr and siddhi are almost certainly false cognates.
Couldn't Seidr be related to the Dutch word zijde which means silk? Silk is often described as an almost-godly substance, and the words are pretty similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.146 ( talk) 19:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
There are all kinds of word pairs across languages that are "pretty similar" purely by coincidence and are not related at all. See
false cognate.
--
Thnidu (
talk)
02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
This article is currently being used by me (in my capacity as a member of the Task Force/Improving Community Health group) as a case study of an article which has declined in quality over time despite having several hundred edits since its highwater mark in or around early 2005. Sjc ( talk) 05:14, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Well let's start with the intro. It's dumbed down considerably and just wrong; we only discover that seid might possibly have something to do with shamanism in the final paragraph.
Compare and contrast:
Seid (also seiðr, seidhr) was the form of shamanism practised by pre-Christian Norse and other Germanic cultures and continued in modern times by people who practice the reconstructionist beliefs of Ásatrú or heathenry. Practitioners of seid were predominantly women (Volva, or seidhkona, lit seidh-woman), although there were male practitioners (seidhmadhr, lit seidh-man) as well. The gods of Norse mythology were also practititioners of seid. In Anglo-Saxon tribes, practitioners of seid were referred to as wicca (m.) or wicce (f.). The Church opposed such activities and wicce evolved , as did the völvas, into the modern witch.
with
Seid or seiðr is an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery or witchcraft which was practiced by the pre-Christian Norse. Sometimes anglicized as "seidhr," "seidh," "seidr," "seithr," or "Seith," the term is also used to refer to modern Neopagan reconstructions Or Emulations of the practice
In the contemporary version the reader is led immediately into a number of flabby misconceptions: that it was an exclusively Norse practice and has more to do with Harry Potter than with what it primarily was about, at least according to all the supporting evidence that follows, which is divinatory magic, often predicated by trances of varying provenance. It's all downhill from there. It won't take you long to work out which is the contemporary cut. What it gains in concision it immediately loses in its inaccuracy and imprecision.
Seid is always going to be, as you so neatly pin it, a ho-hum sort of article, which is precisely what makes it interesting for my purposes for a very specific reason which is a close examination of things which need documenting but which are open to considerable interpretation and consequently present a fertile playing field for the multiplicity of edit-tinkerers, policy-warriors, and the like. The very nature of seid, being practiced clandestinely by adepts means necessarily that very little is documented and that all corroboration or assertions of corroboration are implicitly suspect. We can make intelligent constructions about what seid was from supportive documentation, mainly secondary or tertiary evidence or evidence which is circumstantial, or illustratively and explicitly fictionally narrative in nature Völuspá, the Saga of Erik the Red, or, in fact, the narration of Odin's direct experience of seid (albeit not usually recognised as such) in Hávamál whilst hanging from the tree for nine days. Sjc ( talk) 20:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to point out as a born and raised Icelandic, that I found the word seiðr throughout this article very confusing. Seiðr is old norse word for seiður in Icelandic. Seiður here seems to have the meaning of something magical that's etible. Seiður could come from the word sjóða(boil) although becuase of jó in sjóða, seiði should be spelled with y not i. Often when you meet people in Iceland that you know, you'll ask "Hvað er á seyði hér?" or "what's going on here?" or literally "What is on magically-happening here?" if there's a hairy situation going on.
Also when talking about magic folk. We do not talk about magic users and herbal magic users as the one and the same. Galdramaður literally magic man, explains to us a Gandalf type person but can also be used for a illusionists. Seyðkarl would be somebody like Getafix in the Asterix stories were he's brewing seiði/magical potion in a pot. He's called a druid in wikipedia so maybe that's the name for what seiðkall or seiðkona. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.4.113.33 ( talk) 06:46, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
The section "Origins" has a paragraph on "hellrúna" - but this isn't explicitly linked to the practice of seiðr in the text. Can the relevance to this article be established through sources? Davémon ( talk) 21:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Id like to open a discussion on the use of cannabis in seidhr.
Rqpaine ( talk) 20:31, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
I just want to know why this point has to be made 4-6 times in this entire article. We get it, sheesh. 2601:1C2:1701:4AB0:5543:213B:56E4:55CF ( talk) 05:54, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
I don't know what to make of the chunk of German language two lines at the end of the intro. It seems orphaned, without a lead-in or translation. Should it be in Etymology? Manytexts ( talk) 15:11, 24 April 2023 (UTC)