标题: 《冰岛巫术集》 [打印本页] 作者: 远山重逢 时间: 2020-2-3 01:09 标题: 《冰岛巫术集》 The so-called Galdrab6k,' or "Book of Magic," is the single mosi
important document for understanding the practice of magic ir
late medieval Iceland. It is especially important in that it give,
a unique insight into the various religio-magical elements thai
went into a synthetic national magical tradition in Iceland al
the time of its compilation. No other document of comparable
age gives so many details of the preservation of the archaic Ger
manic gods, cosmology, and magical practices as does this little
manuscript. Here we are not dependent on folktales or indirect
reports through confessions exacted by the tortures of the In.
quisition or other churchly authorities to reconstruct the magico
religious views of the galdramenn (magicians) of the day; instead,
we have direct evidence of actual practices written by the rna.
gicians' own hands. In many ways the Galdrab6k is to the Ice
landic folktales of magic' what the runic inscriptions are to the
accounts of magic recorded in the sagas. They provide factua
corroboration of what otherwise might have been considered,
form of fantasy.
