The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet
Runic amulets have been used during the Medieval Ages all over Scandinavia in order to prevent or fight illnesses as well as discover thieves or murders and sometimes fight evil forces looming over human beings. After Chritianity had come to Scandinavia, runic amulets, very common in pagan times, co...
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ftunorientnapoli:oai:unora.unior.it:11574/202125 2023-07-30T04:04:21+02:00 The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet Maria Cristina Lombardi Lombardi, MARIA CRISTINA 2021 http://hdl.handle.net/11574/202125 eng eng volume:13 firstpage:101 lastpage:120 numberofpages:20 journal:FILOLOGIA GERMANICA http://hdl.handle.net/11574/202125 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Colic leaf amulet info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2021 ftunorientnapoli 2023-07-15T18:37:54Z Runic amulets have been used during the Medieval Ages all over Scandinavia in order to prevent or fight illnesses as well as discover thieves or murders and sometimes fight evil forces looming over human beings. After Chritianity had come to Scandinavia, runic amulets, very common in pagan times, continued to be carved and hung around neck or other parts of the body according to the type of negative influence one was affected by. ‘Colic leaves’ appeared in Iceland as parchment layers to be used for the same purpose. They presented texts, written in Latin alphabet, showing a mixture of pagan and Christian elements. Our paper aims at showing the dependance of this kind of pendants on runic amulet practice by analyzing the only one extant Icelandic ‘Colic leaf’, ms. Kveisublaðið Lbs. Fragm.14, preserved at the National University Library of Iceland, in Reykjavík. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale: CINECA IRIS Reykjavík |
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Runic amulets have been used during the Medieval Ages all over Scandinavia in order to prevent or fight illnesses as well as discover thieves or murders and sometimes fight evil forces looming over human beings. After Chritianity had come to Scandinavia, runic amulets, very common in pagan times, continued to be carved and hung around neck or other parts of the body according to the type of negative influence one was affected by. ‘Colic leaves’ appeared in Iceland as parchment layers to be used for the same purpose. They presented texts, written in Latin alphabet, showing a mixture of pagan and Christian elements. Our paper aims at showing the dependance of this kind of pendants on runic amulet practice by analyzing the only one extant Icelandic ‘Colic leaf’, ms. Kveisublaðið Lbs. Fragm.14, preserved at the National University Library of Iceland, in Reykjavík. |
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The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet |
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The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet |
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The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet |
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The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet |
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The Colic leaf: an Icelandic charm and amulet |
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colic leaf: an icelandic charm and amulet |
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2021 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/11574/202125 |
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Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík |
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Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík |
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