Kari C. Tauring

Kari C. Tauring is a staff carrier, Völva in Old Norse. A story teller, musician, and healer, she began studying and practicing the Norse runes and other traditions of her heritage in the late 1980's. She also studied Native American and Celtic traditions (both parts of her genetic heritage), dream work, herbalism, martial arts and Eastern philosophy. Her practice of using the staff as rhythm stick for galdor and seidr work (rune magic and journeying) has become known throughout ölva Stav. With undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and English, she earned a Master of Arts in 1996 and has been teaching, writing about and singing from the heart of the Völva since that time. Her book The Runes: A Human Journey (2007) and her CD Völva Songs (2008) are the products of over twenty years of research and practice, serving to heal the wounds of broken indigenous European traditions. Her work is well respected throughout the United States by groups as diverse as the Norwegian Lutheran Church and the Midwest Heathen Association.