Q&A - The Forbiden Magic Of The Galdrabók with Kári Pálsson & Giorgia Sottotetti

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Historical, Nordic, Norse Mythology, History, Comedy, Odin, Mythology, Education, Medieval, Viking, Myth, Vikings, Thor, Norse

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this week's episode, Dan and Margrethe talk with Kári Pálsson and Giorgia Sottotetti as they tell us all about the fantasifull, and often crude, magic behind The Galdrabók Grimoire.

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0:00.0	all right so cody asked i totally fell victim to the american ethnocentristism here but never really
0:15.4	thought about which trials outside of which trials outside of america yeah how severe was it in Iceland if they caught, if they were caught with the Grimwa or with this Grimois or
0:27.6	I guess or N.A. and labeled as a witch, would it be a death sentence?
0:32.6	Well, a lot of these executions were based of simple, mostly it was just rumors.
0:43.3	People were, there was a lot of, you know, farmers.
0:48.3	There was a lot of superstition.
0:50.3	And superstition.
0:51.3	People had a lot of superstition in ghosts, physical ghosts and sickness.
0:56.0	And courses that, yeah, like magic that people could cast on you.
1:00.3	There's a lot of superstition going on. So if someone got sick, people might think, like,
1:05.4	oh, it's the neighbor who caused the sickness because there is some conflict going on.
1:09.3	Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
1:13.7	And it seems that at least in the beginning,
1:18.3	officials were a bit lazy to carry out their executions.
1:20.4	And they were like,
1:20.9	all right,
1:21.8	we have to do it.
1:22.1	You know,
1:24.0	they kind of wanted to calm me down a bit.
1:30.8	This was mostly rumors at the beginning at least. But then eventually people lost their life for it. So we have...
1:35.1	Sometimes they ransacked the house and found grimor. So they were like, okay,
1:39.4	yeah, definitely magician. That was not good for you. If you are accused of that and people actually find a grimroar in your possession,
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