Handmade to order Viking Raven Bracelets
Choose your own Runes for Huginn and Muninn
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Viking Raven bracelets – featuring Odins ravens, Huginn and Muninn. Crafted entirely by hand in your choice of metal and cord and stamped with Hagalaz for Huginn and Mannaz for Muninn. You may also choose your own custom Rune if you like. Fine silver with deer tan shown in pictures.
***If no custom Rune(s) are written in the text box above, you will receive Hagalaz and Mannaz by default for sets of two and Hagalaz for single bracelets***
- Made with adjustable sliding knots – fits most wrists. Slide knot to adjust size
- Choose your own custom Runes, metal and cord type
- One bracelet for you and another for a friend (maybe 🙂 )
The story of Huginn and Muninn...
The question on whether or not shamanic practices have been part of Germanic Spirituality and Mythology is one that is widely debated and there’s many questions left. Could Odin have been an Archetype into shamanic practices? And what about the practice of Galdr and Seiðr? My personal opinion is that we don’t know for sure, but there’s hints and comparing Myths to each other might give us a clue and deeper understanding.
Shamanism...
Deriving from the word “Shaman”, of Turkic Origin meaning “one who is excited”, depicts a picture of someone who practices shamanic techniques, that alter the state of consciousness in order to heal or communicate with the spirit realm.
Odin found the mystery of the Runes through self-sacrifice and ecstasy, his journey into the Underworld was one of initiation, if we choose to interpret his Myth that way.
It could also have been, that the Saami of northern Fenno-Scandinavia exchanged shamanic techniques and knowledge. Huginn and Muninn are Odins two Ravens, both deriving from Old Norse, meaning “memory” and “thought”.
Almost all of the sources of Huginn and Muninn come from sources written and compiled in the 13th Century such as the Prose Edda, where Odin is referred to as the “Raven-God” or the Old Norse Poem GrÃmnismál from the Codex Regius Manuscript, where Odin talks about his companions Huginn and Muninn and that fly around the world on a daily basis.
The Ravens could and might be symbols for shamanic trance-like travel into the Underworld, since Odin and his horse Sleipnir ride the realms of Yggdrasil, a shamanic Axis Mundi concept that is known not only in Indo-European, but also Native American and Finno-Ugric cultures.
The very concept of the Fylgja is one that raises a lot of questions, if we understand it as some sort of shamanic symbolism and technique. The infamous Thorwald’s Cross from the 11th Century might depict Odin with Raven on his shoulders. Ravens are known in many cultures and myths, such as in the creation Myth of the Siberian Evenki tribe, the Raven is an assistant and companion of the creator and Guardians of the spirit.Â
