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Hamingja

by Ursprung

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In these unsure times of Covid-19, we in Ursprung want to share our Hamingja with you all in need. Stay healthy and safe.

The Hamingja was a kind of female guardian angel in Norse mythology. It was believed that she accompanied a person and decided their luck and happiness. Consequently, the name was also used to indicate happiness, and that is what it means in modern Icelandic. When a person died, the hamingja passed to a beloved family member and thus accompanied a family for several generations, continuing to influence their fortunes. It was even possible to lend one's own hamingja to a friend, as happened when Hjalti Skeggiason was about to leave on a perilous voyage and asked King Olaf II the saint to lend him his hamingja.

It usually appears during sleep in the form of an animal, but it can also be the spirit of a sleeping person who appears in the form of an animal, as Bödvar Bjarki in the saga of Hrólfr Kraki.

Artwork: The black death by Theodor Severin Kittelsen

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released April 17, 2020

All music written and played by Andreas Axelsson.

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Ursprung Sweden

Ursprung is the brainchild of Andreas Axelsson.

Est 2016 Munkfors, Värmland SWEDEN

Dark nordic folk

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