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According to Hyndluljod daughter to Nökkve ('Seafarer'). Nanna is Balders Wife and mother to Forsete. At the funeral of Balder "BAlder was carried out on the ship, and when his wife, Nanna Nepsdotter, saw him she died of sorrow and was put along side her husband on the ship that was set on fire." When Hermod come to the land of the dead (Hel) in order to pay a visit to Balder she sent Cloathing and other artefacts with him back. According to Saxo Grammaticus Nanna is the duaghter of king Höders foster father Gevar an bethrotted to Höder. When Höder was away on war in Hålogaland Balder made a proposal to her after haveing fallen in love in her when he saw her taking a bath. IN this version Höder and Balder fought each other. Balder fled but returned after few days and was injured in his right side, and he died three days later. It is likely the name and character of Nanna is a long gong memory from the ancient fertility goddess Innanna, or Ishtar as she was called in babylonia.
This work has been named after a Monk, living in Kiev, between 1070 and around 1115. THe chronicle deals with early russian history from Sem, Ham and Jafets times until his own time in the 12:th century. Nturally the history from around 800 and onwards are of interest from nordic point of view, as they mentions rus and varjager people. The author of the chronicle, also called the first panslavite, views these people as immigrants and therefore strangers to the area. His treatment of the history has been subject to debate by different schools of thought. But nevertheless, his chronicles serves as very important writings as they gives a lot of details about the nordic expansion in Russia, their way of living and how and where they made trading with between the baltic sea and the Black ocean, over the seas and river Ladoga-Volchov-Iilmen-Lovat-Dnjepr.
Njord
According to Ynglingasagan Njord was the king of the svea people after Odins Death. At the blot feast the vikings dranks their
Lappish schaman. Great schaman was called "eter nåjder" as they was supposed to eat their enemeies souls. The Nåjds got his calling when walking the the woods on his own; "When the spirit reveals it selfs ans sing for Lapp, he has to remember it. They after he has to revisti; If the spirit want's to be with him, it will show itself once more" (C. Lundius). When a Nċjd is in a Schamanistic mood he drinks alcohol and women starts to sing a song calles "Nåjde-Tiömcka'. He sets himself in trance, falls on his belly and his apprentice puts a drum on his back. The Nåjd now experiences how his spirit leaves his body and travel through space and time.
The above described method of reaching trance was uncommon already in the 17:th century. Instead a new method was used. A small metall object was placed on the vibrating drum skin. On the skin several pictures was drawn and when the skin was vibrating by the drumming the metall object wandered between the different symbols. It was then thought that a Nåjd could tell the future from the path the metal object took on the skin. It was also believed that the Nåjd was visited by helping spirits which travelled through the air in a "boat for spirits". At the start of a seance the Nåjd usually called for his "bird spirit" that in turn helped him to reach the more powerfull spirits consisting of the great Aarja and his women ("rudok"). When all spritis are gathered they lead the Nåjd spirit in a flying Ackja and at the end of the seance the Nåjd gets possesed by the Great spirit, Jaumaal. Many of the schaman aprentices are killed by evil spirits, "Perkelgossarna".
Also known as Holmgård in the nordic countries. Russian town at lake Iilmen in the crossing between tradeways from east, west and south. Kievs front to the north. Novgorod was famous for its trade and and was used as a transit town for traders who traded with the orient. When the orient trading receeded, trading with Daugava Volga increased, furs beeing the most important of the products.
One have found remains from timbered houses and three meter wide streets paved with timber (A practice also used in Sweden). Novgorod is also famous for its 700 pages of inscriptions made with the Cyrilic alphabet in ancient russian. The letters can be dated to around the 11:th century and they tell about everyday life in this town.
It seams that the merchant from Gotland has done particulary large transactuion in this town. During the 12:th century the merchants from Gotland had a trading office and a church patroned by Olav the holy here.
Another indication of the close relationsships between Gotland and Novgorod is the Large Silver treasures found on Gotland from this Time. The largest one, found in Lummelunda (Burge) on Gotland, weighs in at ten kilograms and consists of silver bars that bears every resemblence to russian equivalents, it is quite possible that these bars come from Novgorod.
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