[100] Vegvisir - Viking Gold Magic Runic Compass

Einführung ‘Viking Treasures’ Collection by Serge Averbu kh, showcasing konvergiert media paintings of various Viking relics, artifacts and historic treasures. Here you will find fine art stücke, featuring vegvisir - Viking Gold Magic Runic Compass. In Vegvisir (Icelandic 'sign post') is an Icelandic magical stave intended to help the bearer find their way through weather. Das Symbol is atted in the Huld Manuskript, gesammelt in Iceland by Geir Vigfusson in 1880 (zweck consisting of material of earorigin). A leaf of the manuskript provide an image of the vegvisir, gives its name and, in prose, declares that "if this sign is carried, one will never lose one in storms or bad weather, even when the way is not known". Icelandic magical staves (sigils) are symbols called galdrastafur in Icelandic, and are credited with magical effect preserved in various grimoire dating from the 17th century and later. According to the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, the effects credited to most of the staves were very, relevant to the average Icelanders of the time, who were mostly subsistence farmers and had to with harsh klimaanlage. Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark; the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc. Runology is the study of the runic alphabets, runic requits, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic linguistics. The earliest runic eintrags date from around 150 AD. The characters were generally replaced by the Latin alphabet as the culture that had used runes underwent Christianisation, by approximately 700 AD in central Europe and 1100 AD in northern Europe. However, the use of runes persed for specialized purposes in northern Europe. Until the early 20th century, runes were used in rural Sweden for decorative purposes in Dalarna and on Runic kalars.