And even then, runes would continue to be used for several centuries. Runes have a long history in Europe and an even longer one in Iceland, which didn’t convert to Christianity-or the Latin alphabet-until more than 100 years after it was settled. ![]() After a successful reprinting in Icelandic in 2013, the Icelandic publisher Lesstofan has made the book available in English for the first time.Įach spell consists of a symbol called a stave, which is accompanied by runes that lay out the spell. So it makes sense that Eggertsson would spend 30 years researching Nordic spells, drawing from 80 old manuscripts to create his book of white magic, Sorcerer’s Screed, which he released in 1940. He claimed to have 27 pages from a lost book, written on hide called Gullskinna (“Goldskin”), which, according to legend, would not burn. ![]() During his lifetime, the Icelandic writer and poet-who was born in 1896 and called himself Skuggi (or “Shadow”)-often criticized authorities and the cultural and educational elite and challenged conventional knowledge about Icelandic history and culture. ![]() Jochum Magnus Eggertsson was a strange character.
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