Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages protection against evil and from close to 300

and from close to 300 other published and unpublished sources

a sign that this was a popular style of pendant in the Viking age

charms and magical rites

organizing the specimens into collections

Part I covers the myriad faces of the Goddess revealed

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages protection against evil and from close to 300Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be ableand who in some instances thought themselves ableto manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less