Gullveig: The Witch Who Wouldn’t Burn

There’s a moment in Völuspá (“The Seeress’s Prophecy”) that feels like a spark dropped into dry tinder. A woman arrives.The gods meet her with violence.And the world is never quite the same again. Her name is Gullveig—a mythic figure whose burning and survival shift the Norse cosmos, not because we’re given a tidy biography, but […]