Share

Runic Amulets and Magic Objects

2006 History
Download Runic Amulets and Magic Objects PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2006
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 058/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Runic Amulets and Magic Objects by : Mindy MacLeod

Download or read book Runic Amulets and Magic Objects written by Mindy MacLeod. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh examination of one of the most contentious issues in runic scholarship - magical or not? The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or prosperity. There are invocations and allusions to pagan and Christian gods and heroes, to spirits of disease, and even to potential lovers. Few such texts are completely unique to Germanic society, and in fact, most of the runic amulets considered in this book show wide-ranging parallels from a variety of European cultures. The question ofwhether runes were magical or not has divided scholarship in the area. Early criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not just to a healthy scepticism, but in some cases to a complete denial of any magical element whatsoever in the runic inscriptions. This book seeks to re-evaulate the whole question of runic sorcery, attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with runes but primarily in the fascinating magical texts of the runic inscriptions themselves. Dr MINDY MCLEOD teaches in the Department of Linguistics, Deakin University, Melbourne; Dr BERNARD MEES teaches in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne.

Runes

2012 History
Download Runes PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2012
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Runes by : Michael P. Barnes

Download or read book Runes written by Michael P. Barnes. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principally Anglo-Saxon and the various Scandinavian idioms, and were carved into stone, wood, bone, metal, and other hard surfaces; types of inscription range from memorials to the dead, through Christian prayers and everyday messages to crude graffiti. First reliably attested in the second century AD, runes were in due course supplanted by the roman alphabet, though in Anglo-Saxon England they continued in use until the early eleventh century, inScandinavia until the fifteenth (and later still in one or two outlying areas). This book provides an accessible, general account of runes and runic writing from their inception to their final demise. It also covers modern uses of runes, and deals with such topics as encoded texts, rune names, how runic inscriptions were made, runological method, and the history of runic research. A final chapter explains where those keen to see runic inscriptions can most easily find them. Professor MICHAEL P, BARNES is Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University College London.

The Rune Primer

2006 Body, Mind & Spirit
Download The Rune Primer PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2006
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Rune Primer by : Sweyn Plowright

Download or read book The Rune Primer written by Sweyn Plowright. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

2003-01-01 Social Science
Download Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 960/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions by : Tineke Looijenga

Download or read book Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions written by Tineke Looijenga. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This source publication of all older runic inscriptions provides fascinating information about the origin and development of runic writing, together with the archaeological and historical contexts of the objects. Moreover elaborate readings and interpretations are given of the runic texts.

Runes and Magic

2011-05-01 History
Download Runes and Magic PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2011-05-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 323/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Runes and Magic by : Stephen E. Flowers

Download or read book Runes and Magic written by Stephen E. Flowers. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, based on the author's 1984 doctoral dissertation, this volume has become the leading academic study of the topic of rune-magic. When originally released only 250 copies of this work were printed in a prohibitively expensive edition. This new revised and updated version allows more readers to discover the revolutionary contents of this book which presents a comprehensive history and theory of the concept of magic in connection with the ancient Germanic runes. It also catalogs, categorizes and analyzes the many magical formulas used by the most ancient rune-masters and shows how these formulas were utilized within the traditional Germanic cultural frame of reference. No mater what your level of interest is in the runes, this is the most in-depth text you will find. This is the third edition of this masterpiece, with numerous corrections.

You may also like...