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Elgfróði
One figure I have become immensely fond of is Elgfróði ("Elk-Fróði"), I feel also a pull to incorporate him into my practice as a heathen though he is not a deity or even mythological (his name however is used as a term for a centaur-like creature). Elgfróði is a character in the late legendary saga of King Hrólfr Kraki. He is the oldest of three brothers and the most therianthropic, having the lower half of a moose (the middle brother Þórir has the feet of a dog and the youn
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