Bylgja

No. 695/3,333

Bylgja

Victory for the merry gambler, or obsessive
generative energy much like the billowing
vistas at sea, both fundamental and erosive:
going and coming, giving and taking, wavering.

Vast are the ways that good fortune can turn negative,
gone in an instant, sliding down with no returning;
verily, as fast can it turn again positive -
gamble not that, but rather that change is unceasing.

Source:
The Prose Edda. http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Edda-2a.pdf and https://www.germanicmythology.com/ProseEdda/ANDERSONSkaldskaparmal.html
Northern Paganism. http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/ninesisters/bylgja/honoring-bylgja.html

Music:
Scandinavian traditional ancient music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgvgk50e94&list=PLHJHToHrBftK7LMrDY9VPRZn3IFsskGL4

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