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The Galdrabók : an Icelandic grimoire / [edited, translated, and introduced by] Stephen Flowers.
Van Pelt Library BF1622.G3 F56 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flowers, Stephen E., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Icelandic
- Subjects (All):
- Magic, Germanic--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Magic, Germanic.
- Religion.
- Mythology, Germanic.
- Iceland.
- Mythology, Germanic--Early works to 1800.
- Iceland--Religion--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 135 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser, 1989.
- Summary:
- THE GALDRABOK, or Book of Magic, is the most important single document for understanding the practice of magic in late medieval Iceland. In this translation, the author discusses books of the black art, old gods, daemons of hell, runes and magical signs, theory and practice of magic.
- Notes:
- Includes a translation of Goldrabók.
- Bibliography: pages [133]-135.
- Contains:
- Goldrabók. English. 1989.
- ISBN:
- 087728685X :
- OCLC:
- 19815338
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