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Almost all cultures have cultic leaders, often even different kinds of cultic and religious leaders, at an official level of society. Some people are regarded as more skillful or useful than others when approaching the Other World and performing rituals such as public sacrifices and divinations. Cultic leaders existed also in the pre-Christian Scandinavian culture and society. Besides surveys in handbooks on ancient Germanic and Scandinavian religion and references in some philological and onomastic studies, only a few scholars have investigated ancient Scandinavian cultic leaders thoroughly. In a series of papers in the present anthology, the issue of cultic leadership in the pre-Christian Scandinavian religion is discussed by scholars from archaeology, philology and history of religions. The articles are based on presentations at the conference Kultledare i fornnordisk religion: ett symposium held 2017 on the premises of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in Uppsala.