Galdr

With Galsterei Galster or a certain type of magic is called nowadays. One finds the term often in combinations such as Galsterweib, as a term for a witch or a magic - that is, Galster knowledgeable woman. Pre-Christian magic acts are part of the pagan Germanic religion.

Originally means Galster ( Old High German: galstar, Old Norse: galdr, Old English: gealdor ) in about as much as Zaubergesang or magic meeting from gemeingermanisch * Galdra magic song, singing. With a spell to summon discuss is the Old High German bigalan. The main background of the prefix Germanic * -gal is the bird singing, that is, that the Germans spells or song originally ableiteten of the birdsong here, such as the generic name of " night -i - gal ( l)" in today's High German still see leaves.

A Galster, as it " tingle Galster " the phrase suggests, expressed phonetically. Galster sayings are written in the Old Norse context in a certain specifically for the Galster meter Galdralag. It is typical in the Old English and Old German spells that sing or enchantments Galstern, in relation to the healing of diseases. The literary traditional form shows the Germanic alliteration as well as on the reference to the Germanic mythology. Examples of this are the second Merseburg Spell and the Old English Nine Herbs blessing in which Wodan / Odin as a healer or as a wizard appears. In Norse mythology, in the Edda songs, the Galster is also attributed to Odin, who, for example, in the Vegtamskviða ( Baldrs draumar ) is also called as galdrs fǫður, father of Galster.