Cravate [700] Vegvisir - Viking Gold Magic Runic Compass

Introduction de "Viking Treasures" Collection par Serge Averbukh, showcasing convergent media paintings of various Viking relics, artifacts and historic treasures. Here you will find fine art pieces, featuring vegvisir — Viking Gold Magic Runic Compass. A Vegvisir (Icelandic 'sign post') is à Icelandic magical stave intended to help the bearer find their way through rough weather. The symbole is attested in the Huld Manuscript, collected in Iceland by Geir Vigfusson, 1880 (but consis ting of material of earorigin). A leaf of the manuscript provides an image of the vegvisir, gives its name, and, in prose, declares that "if this sign is carried, one will never lose one way in storms or bad weather, even the way is not known". Icelandic magical staves (sigils) are symbos called galdrastafur in Icelandic, and are credited with magical effect preserved in various grimoires 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 pertinent to the average Icelanders of the time, who were mostly subsistence farmers and had to deal with harsh clic conditions. 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 known as futhark; the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc. Runology is the study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history . Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic linguistique tics. The earliest runic inscriptions from around 150 AD. The characters were generally replaced by the Latin alphabet as the that had used used runderwent Christianisation, by approximately 700 AD in Central Europe et 1100 AD in northern Europe. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes in northern Europe. Until the early 20th century, runes e used in rural Sweden for decorative purposes in Dalarna and on Runic calendars.