What is "farman"

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With them, though, and at Thorvin's insistence, sat a fourth man: Farman priest of Frey, one of the two great visionaries of the Way.

Farman, said Thorvin without debate, a strange answer, for Farman shared none of Thorvin's interests in the crafts of the smith.

From years before Shef remembered his own vision of himself as Völund the lame smith, and Farman priest of Frey peering up at him from the floor like a mouse from the wainscoting.

As they have for Vigleik of the visions, for Farman priest of Frey, for others of the Way.

In exchange Farman had produced a dozen far-seers made by glass-blowers in Stamford: the lenses inferior in clarity, and scratched by grinding even with the finest sand and chalk, but proof that Arab skills could be matched in time.

To it were bidden the priests of the Way, the four who had sailed with him, Thorvin, Skaldfinn, Hagbarth and Hund, and with them Farman the visionary who had seen the need for the new fleet and brought it with him.

He was an unimpressive man: the first time Shef had seen him, it had been in a Völund-vision, and there Shef had been the lame but mighty smith of the gods, Farman no more than a mouse-shape peeping up from the wainscoting.

For what we have been saying, what Hund and Svandis and even Farman have been saying, is that strength in this world comes from belief.

He looked back at Farman just behind him for support, saw the visionary pause, and then nod slowly in acquiescence.

And head back to the ships in the harbor, where Farman waited with the rearguard.

He had seen other men he knew before in visions, but only one man had ever seen him, responded to him as if he had been there, and that had been Farman in the smithy of the gods.

To her surprise she recognized Farman the visionary-priest, whom she had thought still at the ships, and Solomon the Jew, who had vanished in the fighting the previous night.

If the world is set on a better path, as Farman said, a path that leads away from the Skuld-world of the Christians, then I am happy.

Farman came to see me, Farman who is priest of Frey in this Army as I am priest of Thor, or Ingulf of Ithun.

Most respected of all for his visions and his travels in the other worlds, Farman, priest of Frey.