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Heitstrenging (pl. heitstrengingar) is an Old Norse practice of swearing of a solemn oath to perform a future action. They were often performed at Yule and other large social events, where they played a role in establishing and maintaining good relationships principally between members of the aristocratic warrior elite.
The sonargǫltr or sónargǫltr was the boar sacrificed as part of the celebration of Yule in Germanic paganism, on whose bristles solemn vows were made in some forms of a tradition known as heitstrenging.
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A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Freyr by Johannes Gehrts, shown with his sword. In Norse mythology, the sword belonging to Freyr, a Norse god associated with sunshine, summer, and fair weather, is depicted as one of the few weapons that is capable of fighting on its own.
The dísablót by August Malmström. The celebration lives on as an annual market in Uppsala, Sweden.A scene from the disting of 2008. The Dísablót was the blót (sacrificial holiday) which was held in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir [1] (and the Valkyries [2]), from pre-historic times until the Christianization of Scandinavia.
A seeress and witch named Heiðr is mentioned in one stanza of Völuspá, related to the story of the Æsir-Vanir war: Heith they named her who sought their home, The wide-seeing witch,
In Gylfaginning, Snorri mentions the high seat on four occasions. In the first instance he seems to refer to it rather as a dwelling place: "There is one abode called Hliðskjálf, and when Allfather sat in the high seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw."