About the Author
Ed Fitch is one of the founders and major scholars of modern Paganism. Initiated into Gardnerian Wicca during the mid-1960s, he has continually added to the existing background lore on Wicca and mainstream Paganism, and is widely considered to be one of the best and most influential writers of rituals in the U.S. today. His ceremonies are poetic reconstructions of ancient rites in a modern and magical form, using original material researched from historical, anthropological, and literary sources worldwide.
The son of parents from a Russian immigrant community, Ed traveled widely as a boy, living in construction camps in the Southwest desert, mining camps in the West, on a ranch far back in the northern California wilderness, on a farm in Virginia, and on an old southern estate near Washington D.C. As an Air Force officer he traveled the world before settling down into a civilian job as an aerospace engineer in Southern California.
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The Rites of Odin. Copyright © 1990 by Ed Fitch. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without permission in writing from Llewellyn Publications except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
FIRST EDITION
Twenty-fifth Printing, 2024
Cover design by Shannon McKuhen
Interior Illustrations: Robin Wood and Christopher Wells
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fitch, Ed.
The rites of Odin / by Ed Fitch. p.cm. — (Llewellyn’s Teutonic magick series)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 13: 978-0-87542-224-4
ISBN 10: 0-87542-224-1
1.Northmen—Religion. 2. Magic. 3. Rites and ceremonies. I.Title. II. Series.
BL863.F47 1989
293—dc 19 89-2490
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