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Icelandic Magic Aims, tools and techniques of the Icelandic sorcerers Christopher Alan Smith P A UBLISHED BY VALONIA www.avaloniabooks.co.uk TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION A NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION CHAPTER 1 - ICELANDIC MAGIC IN CONTEXT THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT VERNACULAR LITERACY RELIGION AND ATTITUDES TO MAGIC CONCLUSION CHAPTER 2 - THE BOOKS OF MAGIC AM 434 A 12MO ‘LÆKNINGAKVER’ (CA 1500) ATA, AMB 2, F 16:26 ‘ISLÄNDSKA SVARTKONSTBOKEN (BOOK OF MAGIC)’ (1550-1650?) LBS 143 8VO ‘GALDRAKVER’ (CA 1670) LBS 2413 8VO ‘RÚNA- OG GALDRAKVER’ (CA 1800) LBS 764 8VO (CA 1820) Í B 383 4TO ‘HULD’ (CA 1860) CHAPTER 3 - PURPOSES AND PREOCCUPATIONS THE QUESTION OF ‘WHITE’ AND ‘BLACK’ MAGIC APOTROPAIC MAGIC FARMING, FISHING AND TRADE FRIENDSHIP, FAVOUR AND INFLUENCE CRIME AND DISPUTES HEALING LOVE AND SEDUCTION DIVINATION GAMES AND SPORTS LUCK AND WISHES SPELLS OF PURELY MALIGN INTENT CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 4 - THE MAIN TECHNIQUES OF ICELANDIC MAGIC THE PRIMACY OF THE MAGICAL SIGN AS A VEHICLE OF THE INTENT APPEALS TO SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES TALISMANS THE IMPORTANCE OF INCANTATION THE METHODS OF DELIVERY DIRECT CARVING BRINGING A PREPARED SPELL INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE TARGET INGESTION DELIVERY BY PROXIMITY DELIVERY FROM A DISTANCE DIVINATION RITUAL WASHING CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 5 - THE TOOLS OF ICELANDIC MAGIC THE CARVING INSTRUMENT FINGERS KNIVES, AWLS AND SCISSORS PENS, PENCILS AND CHALK MATERIALS USED FOR CARVING THE CARVED SURFACES CLEAR CHOICES WOOD PAPER AND PARCHMENT METALS BONES, HUMAN AND ANIMAL SEA CREATURES USE OF BODY FLUIDS AND EXCRETIONS HERBS AND VEGETABLE PREPARATIONS CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 6 - TIME AND SPACE CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 7 - THE PERSISTENCE OF HEATHEN BELIEF CHAPTER 8 - RUNES, CIPHERS AND SECRECY CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 9 - SOME PROMINENT THEMES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Æ GISHJ Á LMUR KAUPALOKI – THE BARGAIN SEALER ‘LOVE’ SPELLS DISPUTES AND LAWSUITS BRÝNSLUSTAFIR – KEEPING SHARP IS GOOD CHAPTER 10 - THE ISSUE OF COMPLEXITY CHAPTER 11 - CONCLUSIONS WHO PRACTISED MAGIC, AND WITH WHAT INTENTIONS? TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS – SUMMARY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STAVES – CAN ANY SENSE BE MADE OF THIS? FINAL CONCLUSION: HOW ARE WE TO TYPIFY ICELANDIC MAGIC? WORKS CITED SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING ENDNOTES ICELANDIC MAGIC Copyright © 2015 Christopher Alan Smith Published by Avalonia BM Avalonia London WC1N 3XX England, UK www.avaloniabooks.co.uk This Kindle edition, January 2016 Cover image: Luck Knot from Lbs 2413 8vo. Reproduced with kind permission from the National and University Library of Iceland. Interior illustrations and images as credited. Design by Satori, for Avalonia. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, or used in another book, without written permission from the author.
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