Unsolved:Vardøger
Vardøger, also known as vardyvle or vardyger, is a spirit predecessor in Scandinavian folklore.[1]
Stories typically include instances that are nearly déjà vu in substance, but in reverse, where a spirit with the subject's footsteps, voice, scent, or appearance and overall demeanor precedes them in a location or activity, resulting in witnesses believing they've seen or heard the actual person before the person physically arrives. This bears a subtle difference from a doppelgänger, with a less sinister connotation. It has been likened to being a phantom double, or form of bilocation. In Finnish folklore, the concept is known as etiäinen.
Originally, vardøger was considered a fylgja, a sort of guardian spirit.[2][3] Thus a vardöger is the representation of a humans inner essence and that it manifests as an animal wich is the most like the personality of the human.
Etymology
Vardøgr is a Norwegian word defined as ‘‘premonitory sound or sight of a person before he arrives’’. It can also be interpreted as "harbinger". The word vardøger is from Old Norse Lua error in Module:Language at line 197: Name for the language code "non" could not be retrieved with mw.language.fetchLanguageName, so it should be added to Module:Language/data., consisting of the elements Lua error in Module:Language at line 197: Name for the language code "non" could not be retrieved with mw.language.fetchLanguageName, so it should be added to Module:Language/data., "guard, watchman" (akin to "warden") and Lua error in Module:Language at line 197: Name for the language code "non" could not be retrieved with mw.language.fetchLanguageName, so it should be added to Module:Language/data., "mind" or "soul".
References
- ↑ vardøger (Store norske leksikon. fagkonsulent for denne artikkelen var Olav Bø)
- ↑ "The Vardogr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness (L. David Leiter, Journal of Scienti c Exploration, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 621–634, 2002)". http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_16_4_leiter.pdf.
- ↑ Hygen, Georg (1987) (in no). Vardøger: Vårt paranormale nasjonalsfenomen. Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 13. ISBN 82-02-11190-0.
Other sources
- Davidson, H.R. Ellis (1965) Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (Penguin Books) ISBN:978-0140136272
- Kvideland, Reimund; Henning K. Sehmsdorf (1989) Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend (University of Minnesota Press) ISBN:9780816615032
- McKinnell, John (2005) Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend (D.S. Brewer, Cambridge) ISBN:978-1843840428
- Orchard, Andy (1997) Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (Cassell & Co) ISBN:0-304-34520-2
- Pulsiano, Phillip; Kirsten Wolf (1993) Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages) ISBN:978-0824047870
- Simek, Rudolf; translated by Angela Hall (2007) Dictionary of Northern Mythology (D.S. Brewer, Cambridge) ISBN:0-85991-513-1
- Steiger, Brad; (2003) Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places (Visible Ink Press, Detroit, Michigan) ISBN:978-1-57859-401-6
Further reading
- Doubles: The Enigma of the Second Self, Rodney Davies, 1998, ISBN:0-7090-6118-8
- Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals, Rupert Sheldrake, 2000, ISBN:0-609-80533-9
- Phone Calls From the Dead [chapter on "intention" phone calls], D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless, 1980, ISBN:0-425-04559-5
External links
- "Miracles examined from a Fortean perspective". Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120722012602/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/saints-alive.html.
- Llewellyn Unconscious in the Astral
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