Runic Amulets and Magic Objects - Mindy MacLeod, Bernard Mees - Google Books

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The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried…