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Icelandic magical staves

Icelandic magical staves (sigils) are symbols called [8] From a 17th-century manuscript, lbs 143 8vo, in the National Library in Reykjavk.
Galdrastafur in Icelandic, and are credited with magical eect preserved in various grimoires dating from the
[9] From a 17th-century medical text, am 434a 12mo, in the
17th century and later.[1] According to the Museum of
Arnemagnean Collection in Reykjavk.
Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, the eects credited to
most of the staves were very relevant to the average Ice- [10] From a 19th-century manuscript, lbs 4375 8vo, in the National Library in Reykjavk.
landers of the time, who were mostly subsistence farmers
and had to deal with harsh climatic conditions.[1]

[11] Huld Manuscript B 383 4 in the National Library in


Reykjavk

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Table of magical staves

[12] Magical fonts for the museum


[13] RPM resource icelandic-fonts. rpmnd.net. Retrieved
8 December 2014.

Font

Following a visit to the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery


and Witchcraft in the summer of 2006, Apostolos Syropoulos designed a font containing several of the magical staves.[12] This font is now included in the repositories
of Fedora.[13]

5 External links
List of the staves at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft
Galdrastar: Magical Staves

Font with Staves, by Apostolos Syropoulos

See also
Galdr
Hex sign
Runic magic

References

[1] Staves or magical signs


[2] Lbs 4375 8vo, Iceland, 1900-1949 in the National Library
in Reykjavk
[3] From a 17th-century grimoire, in the AntikvariskTopograska Arkivet in Stockholm.
[4] Huld Manuscript B 383 4] in the National Library in
Reykjavk
[5] From a 19th-century manuscript, lbs 4375 8vo, in the
National Library in Reykjavk.
[6] http://www.galdrasyning.is/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=212&Itemid=60
[7] From Skuggi. rsriti Jlagjn 4. r. 1940.
GALDRA-SKRA by Jochum M. Eggertson

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