Asatru Folk Assembly - December 30, 2023


Baldrs draumar, a reading

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
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Draumer Baldur Till Loki Vardtam Balder Vegtam Volva
Alvíssmál, a reading Gróttasöngr, a reading

Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

119.52

Word count

772

Sentence count

28

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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Baldur s Draumer is a short poem by the ancient Norwegian poet Baldur, written in the late twelfth century. It is a continuation of the older poem, the Trimskvita, written by the same author.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Baldur's Draumer
00:00:23.000 Baldur's dreams
00:00:26.000 Baldur's drama is found only in the Armagnian Codex, where it follows the Harbosley oaths fragments.
00:00:32.980 It is preserved in various late paper manuscripts with the title Vektomskvitha, The Lay of Vektom, which has been used by some editors.
00:00:42.060 The poem, which contains but fourteen stanzas, has apparently been preserved in excellent condition.
00:00:48.300 Its subject matter and style link get closely with the Voluspa.
00:00:52.120 Four of the five lines of stanza 11 appear almost without change in the Voluspa of the lines 32-33,
00:00:58.720 and the entire poem is simply an elaboration of the episode outlined in those in the preceding stanzas.
00:01:05.320 It has been suggested that Baldur's drama and the Voluspa may have been by the same author.
00:01:11.280 There is also enough similarity in style between Baldur's drama and the Trimskvita
00:01:17.660 note especially the opening stanza,
00:01:20.060 to give color to Vicfusson's guess that these two poems have a common authorship.
00:01:25.140 In any case, Balazsdrauman presumably assumed its present form not later than the first half of the 10th century.
00:01:33.300 Whether the vulva or wise woman of the poem is identical with the speaker under Voluspa is purely a matter for conjecture.
00:01:40.760 Nothing definitively opposes such an opposition.
00:01:44.120 As in the longer poem, she foretells the fall of the gods,
00:01:47.460 so in this case she prophesies the first incident of the fall, the death of Baldr.
00:01:52.660 Here, she is called up from the dead by Odin, anxious to know the meaning of Baldr's evil dreams,
00:01:58.760 and the Voluspa is likewise intimated that the Volva has arisen from the grave.
00:02:03.900 The poem, like most of the others in the collection, is essentially dramatic rather than narrative,
00:02:09.180 summarizing a story which was doubtless familiar to everyone who heard the poem recited.
00:02:13.160 Once were the gods together met, and the goddesses came, and counsel held, and the far-faint
00:02:24.540 ones the truth would find, why baleful dreams to Balder had come.
00:02:31.200 Then olden arose, and then chanted her old, and the saddle he laid on slit near his back,
00:02:37.540 Then rode he down to the niffel deep In the hound he met that came from hell.
00:02:44.400 Bloody he was on his breast before, At the father of magic he howled from afar.
00:02:50.460 Forward rode Odin, the earth resounded, To the house so high of hell he reached.
00:02:57.560 Then Odin rode to the eastern door, There he knew well it was the wise woman's grave.
00:03:03.720 he spoke in mighty charms till spellbound she arose and in death she spoke what is the man to me unknown
00:03:13.560 that had made me travel the troublous road i was snowed on with snow and smitten with rain
00:03:20.440 and drenched with dew long was i dead odin spake
00:03:25.000 Vegtam, my name, I am Vardtam's son, Speak thou of hell, for of heaven I know.
00:03:32.800 For whom are the benches, bright with rings, And the platforms gay, bedecked with gold?
00:03:39.320 The wise woman spake, Here for Badr the mead is brewed,
00:03:44.680 The shining drink in the shield lies o'er it, But their hope is gone from the mighty
00:03:49.840 gods, Unwilling I spake, and Nair would still.
00:03:55.360 Odin spake, Wise woman seeks not, I seek from thee all to know that I fain would ask,
00:04:02.660 What shall the bane of Balder become, And steal the life from out and sun?
00:04:08.780 The wise woman spake, Hot dither bears the far fain branch, 0.68
00:04:15.040 shall the bane of balder become and steal the life from odin's son unwilling i spake and now would be
00:04:21.840 still odin spake wise woman seeks not i seek from thee all to know that i fain would ask
00:04:31.040 who shall vengeance win for the evil work or bring the flames of balder the slayer
00:04:36.560 the wise woman spake rin bears folly invest their salir and one night old fights odin's son
00:04:46.640 he hands he shall not wash his hair he shall not comb to the slayer of bother he brings to
00:04:54.560 the flames unwilling i spake and now it would be still odin spake wise woman cease not i seek
00:05:04.320 from thee, all to know that a fain would ask. What maidens are they, who then shall weep 0.92
00:05:09.820 and toss to the sky the yards of the sails?" 1.00
00:05:15.140 The wise woman spake,
00:05:16.760 Vectum thou art not, as erstwhile I thought. Odin thou art the enchanted old.
00:05:26.560 Odin spake,
00:05:27.560 No, wise woman art thou, no wisdom hast, Of giants three, the mother art thou.
00:05:35.660 The wise woman spake,
00:05:38.860 Home, Ra'oden, be ever proud, For no one man shall seek me more,
00:05:44.560 Till Loki wanders loose from his bonds, And to the last strife the destroyers come.
00:05:57.560 Thank you.