Amulets: Stones, Herbs, Runes & More

Stephan Grundy

Stephan Grundy June 28, 1967 – Sept 29, 2021 From his humble beginnings, Stephan Grundy/Kveldulf Gundarsson would make his mark on the world by writing

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Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to the history and religious significance of amulets, stones, runes, and herbs found throughout Germanic and Teutonic cultures. Amulets is Gundarsson’s finest work on the subject, providing an immense depth of knowledge on each and every amulet uncovered, giving you all the historical information needed to create your very own piece of history.

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What's Inside

  • Amulets in the Teutonic World: Foreword
  • Section I: Shaped Amulets
    • 1.1 – Shaped amulets: definition and explanation
    • 1.2 – Animal-shaped amulets: an overview
    • 1.2.1. – The boar
    • 1.2.2. – The raven
    • 1.2.3 – The eagle (and falcon)
    • 1.2.4 – The bear
    • 1.2.5 – The cat
    • 1.2.6 – The wolf and the dog
    • 1.2.7 – The wyrm
      • Aesculapian snake “Lyfjaganda”
    • 1.2.8 – The horse
    • 1.2.9 – The Frog
    • 1.2.10 – The Goat
    • 1.2.11 – The swan and the goose
    • 1.2.12– Fish (and water-wyrms)
    • 1.2.13 – The elk and the deer
    • 1.3 – Human figures
    • 1.3.1 – God-images
    • 1.3.2 – Bracteate depictions
    • 1.3.2.1 – A-Bracteates
    • 1.3.2.2. – B-Bracteates
    • 1.3.2.2.1 – “Týr and the Wolf”
    • 1.3.2.2.2 – The Three-God Bracteates
    • 1.3.2.2.3 – Seated Man/Magician-in-trance
    • 1.3.2.2.4 – Heroe
    • 1.3.2.2.5 – The “Spinning Goddess”
    • 1.3.2.3 – C-Bracteates: Man/Horse/Bird of Prey
    • 1.3.2.4 – D-Bracteates
    • 1.3.3 – Gullgubber
    • 1.3.4 – The woman with the drinking vessel
    • 1.3.5 – The wolf-skin warrior
    • 1.3.6 – The horned dancer
    • 1.3.8 – Heads, Eyes, and Masks
    • 1.3.9 – The necklace-goddess
    • 1.4 – Symbolic items
      • – The axe
      • Hedeby axe-amulet
    • 1.4.2 – Thórr’s Hammer
    • 1.4.3 – Weapons and shield-shaped pendants
    • 1.4.4 – Fire-steels and fire stones
    • 1.4.5 – Miniature Thrones
    • 1.4.6 – Breloques
    • 1.4.7 – Sword-beads and spindle-whorls
      • Rings and Spirals
    • 1.4.9 – Stave-miniatures
    • 1.4.10 – Tool-miniatures
    • 1.4.11– Whetstones
    • 1.4.12 – Rangles and spangles
    • 1.4.13 – Pyramids
    • 1.4.14 – Capsule-pendants
    • 1.4.15 – Ships
    • 1.4.16 – Caskets, keys, and “medicine-bags”
  • Part II: Amuletic Materials
    • 2.1 – Amuletic materials: an overview
    • 2.2 – Amber
    • 2.3 – Jet
    • 2.4 – Gold
    • 2.5 – Silver
    • 2.6 – Iron
    • 2.7 – Bronze
    • 2.8 – Other metals: lead, copper, tin
    • 2.9 – Organic: ivory, wood, bone, antler
    • 2.9.1 – Walrus ivory and whalebone
    • 2.9.2 – Wood and bone
    • 2.9.3 – Antler
  • Part III: Runic Amulets
    • 3.1 – Runic amulets: an overview
    • 3.2 – Runic jewelery
      • 3.2.1 – Bracteate inscriptions
    • 3.3 – Magical inscriptions on practical items
      • 3.3.1 – Spinning and Weaving Tools
      • 3.3.2 – Tools
      • 3.3.3. – Weapons
      • 3.3.3.1 – Names
      • 3.3.3.2 – Single staves
      • 3.3.3.3 – Other Weapons-inscriptions
    • 3.4 – Relevant Inscriptions to the Items
    • 3.5 – Inscriptions on materials of convenience
      • 3.5.1 – Wood
      • 3.5.2 – Sheet-metal amulets
    • 3.6 – Common styles of amuletic inscription
      • 3.6.1 – Formulae
        • 3.6.1.1 – Personal declaration
        • 3.6.1.1.1 – EK ERILAZ (“I the Erulian”)
        • 3.6.1.1.2 Runemasters’ heiti
        • 3.6.1.2 – “Rune from the ruling powers”
        • 3.6.1.3 – Concealment
        • 3.6.1.4 – Cursing-formulae
      • 3.6.2 – Words of might
        • 3.6.2.1 – ALU
        • 3.6.2.2. LAUKAR
        • 3.6.2.3 – LAÞU
        • 3.6.2.4. – AUJA
        • 3.6.2.5. – LINA
        • 3.6.2.6 – LEUB
        • 3.6.2.7 – FUÞ
        • 3.6.2.8 – Hagalaz
        • 3.6.2.9 – WIJU
        • 3.6.2.10 – TUWA
        • 3.6.2.11 – bjarga, björg : bergan, bergo
        • 3.6.1.12. – Single-word god-callings
      • 3.6.3 – Trigger-words
      • 3.6.4 – Tale-charms
      • 3.6.5 – Runes with pictures
      • 3.7 – Risted signs: fylfot, valknútr, ægishjalmr, “shield-knot”,triskele, “tree-like” design
        • 3.7.1 – The Fylfot -Example provided is of the similar sign-
        • 3.7.3 – The ægishjálmr [See Page 355]
        • 3.7.4 – The “shield-knot”; knots, braids, and bindings
        • 3.7.5. – The triskele
        • 3.7.6 – “Tree-like” design

Chapter IV: Found Amulets

  • 4.1 – Found amulets: things of might
  • 4.2 – Animal Parts
    • 4.2.1 – Boar parts
    • 4.2.2 – Bear parts
    • 4.2.3 – Wolf and dog parts
    • 4.2.4 – Wyrm parts
    • 4.2.5 – Lynx and Cat parts
    • 4.2.6 – Beaver parts
    • 4.2.7 – Bird parts and eggs
    • 4.2.8 – Frog parts
    • 4.2.9 – Horse parts
    • 4.2.10 – Sea beast parts
    • 4.2.11 – Shells
  • 4.3 – Human amulets
    • 4.3.1 – Uses for human parts in amulets
    • 4.3.2 – Human hair and beard
    • 4.3.3 – Human Teeth
    • 4.3.4 – Human bones
  • 4.4. – Hood, Cloak, Helm, and Caul
  • 4.5 – Special and various items

Chapter V: Stone-Lore

  • 5.1 – Stone-lore: an overview
  • 5.2 – Colors and shapes of might
    • 5.2.1 – White
    • 5.2.2. – Gray
    • 5.2.3 – Red
    • 5.2.4 – Blue and purple
    • 5.2.5 – Clear or translucent
    • 5.2.6. – Green (and yellow)
    • 5.2.7 – Phallic amulets
    • 5.2.8 – Stones with Natural Holes
  • 5.3 – Fossils
    • 5.3.1 – “Snake stones” or fossilized ammonites
    • 5.3.3 – Fossil sponges (porosphaera; astylospongia praemorsa)
    • 5.3.5. – Other fossils
  • 5.4 – Specific stones
    • 5.4.1 – Amethyst
    • 5.4.2 – Carnelian
    • 5.4.3 – Crystal (rock crystal, berg-crystal)
    • 5.4.4 – Fire stones (flint, iron pyrite, and quartzite)
    • 5.4.5 – Garnet
    • 5.4.6 – Sunstone and lodestone
    • 5.4.7 – Glass
    • 5.4.8 – Organic “stones”435

Chapter VI: Plant-Lore

  • 6.1 – Plant-lore: an overview and folkloric methodology
  • 6.2 – Magico-religious means of using plants
    • Sample: “Freyja” recels
  • 6.4 – Plants and Rune staves
  • 6.5 – Trees of might
    • 6.5.1 – Apple
    • 6.5.2 – Ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
    • 6.5.3 – Beech
    • 6.5.4 – Birch (Betula alba)
    • 6.5.5 – Elder (Sambucus nigrus)
    • 6.5.6 – Hawthorn (Cratageus oxyacantha)
    • 6.5.7 – Hazel
    • 6.5.8 – Holly
    • 6.5.9 – Juniper
    • 6.5.10 – Linden
    • 6.5.11 – Oak
    • 6.5.12 – Pine, fir, and tar
    • 6.5.13 – Pussy Willow (salix capraea)
    • 6.5.14 – Rowan
    • 6.5.15 – Yew (taxus baccata)
    • 6.5.16 – Other trees
    • 6.5.17 – Yggdrasill
    • 6.6 – Herbs of might
      • 6.6.1 – Arnica (Arnica montana)
      • 6.6.2 – Barley and other grains
      • 6.6.3 – Bee-wort (Acorus calamus)
      • 6.6.4 – Betony (Stachys officinalis)
      • 6.6.5 – Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale; smápors)
      • 6.6.6 – Buck Leaf (Menyanthes trifoliata)
      • 6.6.7 – Cowslip
      • 6.6.8 – Caraway
      • 6.6.9 – Chamomile (“Baldr’s Brow”)
      • 6.6.10 – Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
      • 6.6.11 – Clover, white (Trifolium repens)
      • 6.6.12 – Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
      • 6.6.13 – Daphne Mezereum (tibast)
      • 6.6.14 – Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
    • 6.6.15 – Dill (Anethum graveolus)
    • 6.6.18 – Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) & psilocybin (various)
    • 6.6.19 – Garlic, Onions, and other Leeks
    • 6.6.20 – Heather (lyng; or whortle berries)
    • 6.6.21 – Hemlock (Conium maculatum)
    • 6.6.22 – Hemp
    • 6.6.23 – Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)
    • 6.6.24 – Houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum)
    • 6.6.25 – Hvann (Angelica archangelica)
    • 6.6.26 – Lady’s Bedstraw (Frowe’s Bedstraw; Galium verum)
    • 6.6.27 – Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla xanthochlora)
    • 6.6.28 – Madder (Rubia tinctorum)
    • 6.6.29 – Mandrake (Mandragora officinalis or autumnalis)
    • 6.6.30 – Mistletoe (Viscum album)
    • 6.6.31 – Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris)
    • 6.6.32 – Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
    • 6.6.33 – Nettle
    • 6.6.34 – Orchid, spotted (Dactylorhiza maculata)
    • 6.6.35 – Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegia)
    • 6.6.36 – Periwinkle (Vinca major)
    • 6.6.37 – Great Plantain and Ribwort Plantai
    • 6.6.38 – Reed
    • 6.40 – Rose, wild
    • 6.6.41 – “Sea-kidney”
    • 6.6.42 – Slime molds and algae
    • 6.6.43 – Stonecrop
    • 6.6.43 – Sunnawort (“St. John’s Wort”)
    • 6.6.44 – Sweet Woodruff
    • 6.6.45 – Thistle
    • 6.6.46 – Valerian
    • 6.6.47 – Vervain
    • 6.6.48 – Water Lily
    • 6.6.49 – “Witch’s Broom”
    • 6.6.50– Woad
    • 6.6.51 – Wolfsbane (Týr’s Helm) – Aconitea
    • 6.6.52 – Woody Nightshade
    • 6.6.53-Yarrow

Part VII: Making Amulets: A Practical Guide

  • 7.1 – Basics of Amulet-making
    • 7.2.1 – Choosing or making amuletic jewelery
    • 7.2.2 – Amulet bags
    • 7.2.3 – Found amulets
    • 7.2.4 – Amulet carving
    • 7.2.5 – Practical amulets
    • 7.2.6 – Amuletic tattoos or cuttings
  • 7.3 – Enchanting Amulets
    • 7.3.1 – Bidding the amulet
    • 7.3.2 – Blessing the amulet
    • 7.3.3 – Enchanting the amulet
    • 7.3.4 – Risting (and reddening) the amulet; amulet-tines
  • 7.4   Designing and Making an Amulet: Three Examples
    • 7.4.1 – Skaldcraft
      • ANSUZ – MJÖðR – ANSUZ – ÓðR – GEBO ANSUZ – AMJAGÓðAR
    • 7.4.2 – Warding against airborne disease and ill magic
    • 7.4.3 – Bringing wealth573
  • Word-Hoard
  • Book-Hoard
  • Artifact and Runic Inscription Index
  • Resources
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Endnotes
  • Table of Images

Book Details

A comprehensive guide to the history and religious significance of amulets, stones, runes and herbs found throughout Germanic and Teutonic cultures. Amulets is Gundarsson’s finest work on the subject, providing an immense depth of knowledge on each and every amulet uncovered, giving you all the historical information needed to create your very own piece of history.

  • Book Details:
  • Author: Kveldulf Gundarson
  • Publisher: The Three Little Sisters
  • Cover: Gloss
  • Language: English
  • Paperback: 636 pages
  • ISBN-13:‎ 978-1-959350-07-1
  • Item Weight:‎ 2.399 lb
  • Trim Size: 7×10 inches

BISAC: Silver, Gold & Other Metals, Antique & Collectible Precious Metals, History Study & Teaching

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