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Vows taken as an old Norse custom at the festival of Yule.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Taking of vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M119.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Cleasby and Vigfússon Icel. – Eng. Dict. (1874) 853 s. v. "heitstrenging"
  • general Lagerholm 18, *Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Taking of vows and oaths – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it
Swearing by the elements: sun, moon, stars, wind Swearing by (clan) gods Vows taken by placing one's foot on a certain post in the hall Swearing on a stone. (Cf. M114.2.) Swearing by "the Seven Things which they serve." Oath by placing hand on genitals Oath taken by the life of a person

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