{"id":2656,"date":"2021-01-15T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/?page_id=2656"},"modified":"2021-06-13T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T12:01:34","slug":"annalar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/annalar\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical context"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sorcery and magic were not new to the Icelandic community in the seventeenth century. Sorcery was a part of the old Germanic religion and the oldest mentions in Icelandic of magic or sorcery are found in the Eddic poetry which were composed long before Christianity was accepted in 1000 AD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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We do not know much about the magic that the heathen Icelanders practiced but it was connected with the cult of \u00d3\u00f0inn and his vast wisdom and mastery of runes. Sorcery is also mentioned in the Icelandic Sagas but it must be kept in mind that these were written two centuries after the advent of Christianity. Two of the most famous sorcerers mentioned there are Egill Skalla-Gr\u00edmsson, viking, poet, and farmer, and <\/span>Svanur of Svansh\u00f3ll<\/span> in Strandir whose description is found in Nj\u00e1l\u2019s Saga.<\/span><\/p>

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It is unlikely that the practice of sorcery was completely stamped out in a matter of decades and the Catholic Church, which in Iceland was always quite independent of Rome, was fairly tolerant of the use of benevolent magic. However, in 1343 the annals tell us that a Norwegian bishop had a nun burnt for blasphemy and communicating with the devil, and in 1407 a man was burnt in the Nordic community in Greenland for using sorcery to seduce a married woman. Other mentions of proceedings against magicians have not been found prior to the Reformation in the middle of the 16th century.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Af g\u00f6ldrum og \u00f6\u00f0rum vi\u00f0bur\u00f0um.\u00a0 H\u00e9r m\u00e1 ver\u00f0a margs v\u00edsari um \u00edslensk galdram\u00e1l. Einnig er h\u00e9r a\u00f0 finna \u00fdmsan fr\u00f3\u00f0leik um atbur\u00f0i og upp\u00e1komur \u00e1 Str\u00f6ndum nor\u00f0ur. Helstu heimildir eru ann\u00e1lar og al\u00feingisb\u00e6kur. Um 1000 Svanur \u00e1 Svansh\u00f3li er fyrsti nafntoga\u00f0i galdrama\u00f0urinn \u00e1 Str\u00f6ndum. Hans er geti\u00f0 \u00ed Landn\u00e1mu og er \u00fear sag\u00f0ur sonur Bj\u00f6rns, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":183,"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11389,"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2656\/revisions\/11389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galdrasyning.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}