The Healing Mountain

In Old Norse “Lyfjaberg” means “mountain of healing” or more literally “mountain of medicinal herbs” and has been made famous in Norse mythology and by the poem Fjölsvinnsmál as a place of comfort and care for sick and suffering people who they climb the mountain for donating offerings to the sanctuary.

It is where Menglod and her nine handmaidens sit. Lyfjaberg is attested in the eddic poem Fjölsvinnsmál

Hyfiaberg ’tis called,

and long it has a solace been

to the bowed-down and sorrowful:

each woman becomes healthy,

although a year’s disease she has,

if she can but ascend it.

 

Energetic representation of Lyfjaberg and all the benefits of healing.