His sound warns of the beginning of the battle, but maybe not only that, maybe the völva used it in rituals... Lur is one of the best known instruments of the Viking and Scandinavian folklore. Icelandic sagas speak about this instrument as a "war horn", its sound was used to gather troops and scare the enemy. The first lur are from the Bronze Age, made of metal (bronze) with a curved shape and ending in a bell head. Over the time the bronze was replaced by wood and the curved shape became a straight and elongated trumpet. This type of lur is from the Viking age, and the country where it was most used was Norway. The most important finds are in Denmark (where a lur of hazel wood 80 cm long was found) and in Oseberg (107 cm long, found in a grave of a woman with other ritual objects and textiles, maybe seiðr). The surviving lur is a long trumpet made of willow or birch wood, with a widened bell-shaped end from which the sound comes out and another thin end in the form of a mouthpiece. The wooden tube is cut in half lengthwise, the inside is hollowed out leaving a hole along its length to form a tube, then the two halves are put back together and fastened with birch strips. Ancient lur were fastened with 5 strips of willow or leather. The use as a war horn was replaced as an instrument for calling cattle (especially on dairy farms), scaring off predators, communicating in the distance and announcing the opening of fairs and celebrations. But there are also some who believe that it was used as a magical object in völva rituals, as a staff, to enter trance and as a gateway to any of the Nine Worlds...
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