Crown opening
Skull-top spirit entry
The skull-top point is the requested crown opening, an iconic place where the trance subject's spirit-directed attention is shown entering or leaving the body. No Eddic passage describes a literal cranial aperture, so this is a plainly labelled modern reconstruction from seiðr's visionary and travelling language rather than a historical anatomical fact.
Point 8 of 8 in Seiðr Norse Trance — body projection
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Crown opening ↔ Crown (distance 0.015)
Sources
Poetic Edda (primary_canonical)
Vǫluspá sts. 22 and 28–29 establish the seeress's prophetic and visionary setting, but no stanza describes a literal opening in the skull. The crown point is consequently a transparent modern synthesis of trance imagery rather than a historical Norse anatomical claim.
Neil Price, The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (scholarly_modern)