hedge rider

== English == === Etymology === See hedge riding. === Noun === hedge rider (plural hedge riders) A witch who practises hedge riding; a hedge witch. 1883, Translation of Havamal, in Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (editors, translators), Corpvs Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, Volume 1: Eddic Poetry, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 27, 18. The tenth I know: If I see witches [hedge-riders] dancing in the air, I prevail so that they go astray and cannot find their own skins and their own haunts. ==== Usage notes ==== As indicated in the Havamal quotation (1883), witch is the traditional conventional English translation of the Old Norse túnriða (plural túnriður), which more literally translates as hedged-plot rider (hence hedge rider). ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Shamanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia