And once again we have a small story from the life of the Vikings, so to speak. This time we turn to the part of the notes where the author describes various divination systems and magic in general. But! it begins with a preface, which also contains a lot of important information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first sentence sounds like this: \u201cso that you are not defrauded of your money, you must distinguish magic <\/em><galdr<\/strong>> and deceptive magic<\/em> <svikagaldr<\/strong>>". The second term refers to ordinary quackery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In principle, it is not at all surprising that already at that time there were charlatans (or rather, charlatans) who made money from the fact that ordinary people did not understand magic at all and how it works. And these were not only fortune tellers, according to the author; he also mentions all sorts of witches, spellcasters and lists a whole bunch of specific and almost untranslatable words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If that was the end of it, I wouldn\u2019t even be writing this post. But! Further, the author explains how you can distinguish a genuine sorceress from a deceiver. Go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n