Why wouldn’t there be a reason for your friend to get this?
Other than it essentially being the Nordic version of a random Chinese word?
I mean, I think that galdrastafir are cool and all, but has your friend considered going fully unhinged and getting a hermetic sigil of some kind? I mean, if you’re going to bet on some kind of magic, early-Renaissance Western Europe has a better track record of making things go their way than Iceland.
Not that I know of, just be sure your friend knows that galdrastafir runes date from around the 17th century but not the viking age. I met an American tourist once who had a few of these and thought they were some ancient magical runes from the viking era, he was not super happy when I pointed the truth out to him.
That’s adorable. I hope he’s happy being approached by gay “bears” in the gym locker room looking for a nice submissive bottom.
They aren’t runes and are not “Víking”
They are sigils and there origin is in the Jewish kabbalah and the book of Solomon. This particular sigil is from the 16th century.
To get a galdrastaf as a tattoo when your not Icelandic is pretty alarming to us because hate groups have stolen many of them and think they are pagan runes for the Viking age but they have no connection to them no more then the modern Icelanders is a Viking to day.
Why do you want a galdrastaf as a tattoo?
I’ll bite. The grimoire this comes from is claimed to be a compilation by Skuggi. Also known in the family as Júkki. See he is my great-uncle. He claimed to have access to grimoires that have been lost to time. I have the version that he wrote, but the more I research it the more I think he made stuff up himself, which I find okay since I view it as art. It is supposed to have the effect of putting people to sleep after hiding it under a pillow and writing it via blood as most staves. So according to the book, after the tattoo. Put the limb with the sigil under the pillow and poof, insomnia is cured. Keep us posted on that one.
Júkki was described by family members who knew him as an eccentric man. He became a hermit later in life, as he left his wife one day and lived by himself in Þorskafjörður. My grandfather pondered if he had buried all his stuff there.
From a historical perspective, this is a syncretism of kabbalah and runes. It’s also of the hermetic order but with nordic flair. The oldest of these is around the 14th century.
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Why wouldn’t there be a reason for your friend to get this?
Other than it essentially being the Nordic version of a random Chinese word?
I mean, I think that galdrastafir are cool and all, but has your friend considered going fully unhinged and getting a hermetic sigil of some kind? I mean, if you’re going to bet on some kind of magic, early-Renaissance Western Europe has a better track record of making things go their way than Iceland.
Not that I know of, just be sure your friend knows that galdrastafir runes date from around the 17th century but not the viking age. I met an American tourist once who had a few of these and thought they were some ancient magical runes from the viking era, he was not super happy when I pointed the truth out to him.
That’s adorable. I hope he’s happy being approached by gay “bears” in the gym locker room looking for a nice submissive bottom.
They aren’t runes and are not “Víking”
They are sigils and there origin is in the Jewish kabbalah and the book of Solomon. This particular sigil is from the 16th century.
To get a galdrastaf as a tattoo when your not Icelandic is pretty alarming to us because hate groups have stolen many of them and think they are pagan runes for the Viking age but they have no connection to them no more then the modern Icelanders is a Viking to day.
Why do you want a galdrastaf as a tattoo?
I’ll bite. The grimoire this comes from is claimed to be a compilation by Skuggi. Also known in the family as Júkki. See he is my great-uncle. He claimed to have access to grimoires that have been lost to time. I have the version that he wrote, but the more I research it the more I think he made stuff up himself, which I find okay since I view it as art. It is supposed to have the effect of putting people to sleep after hiding it under a pillow and writing it via blood as most staves. So according to the book, after the tattoo. Put the limb with the sigil under the pillow and poof, insomnia is cured. Keep us posted on that one.
Júkki was described by family members who knew him as an eccentric man. He became a hermit later in life, as he left his wife one day and lived by himself in Þorskafjörður. My grandfather pondered if he had buried all his stuff there.
From a historical perspective, this is a syncretism of kabbalah and runes. It’s also of the hermetic order but with nordic flair. The oldest of these is around the 14th century.