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    The Kvinneby amulet (Öl SAS1989;43) is an 11th-century runic amulet found in the mid-1950s buried in the village of Södra Kvinneby in Öland, Sweden. The...
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    Mjölnir (category Amulets)
    is attested in numerous sources, including the 11th century runic Kvinneby amulet, the Poetic Edda, a collection of eddic poetry compiled in the 13th...
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    (legendary sagas). Objects and monuments such as the Rök runestone and the Kvinneby amulet feature runic inscriptions—texts written in the runic alphabet, the...
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    calls upon Thor to heal a wound by banishing a thurs. The second, the Kvinneby amulet, invokes protection by both Thor and his hammer. On four (or possibly...
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    West-Norse form dyrgja. Canterbury charm Kvinneby amulet Ribe healing-stick Saltfleetby spindle-whorl Sigtuna amulet I Stoklund, Marie (1996), ""The Ribe...
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  • the 11th-century Kvinneby amulet (where Thor is also called upon to provide protection), the formula structure of the Sigtuna amulet I, and the inscription...
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    healing-stick, the Icelandic poem Sigrdrífumál and spell-book Galdrabók. Kvinneby amulet Ribe skull fragment Pereswetoff-Morath 2019, p. 356. Pereswetoff-Morath...
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    de Sancto Cuthberto). Canterbury charm Near Fakenham plaque Kvinneby amulet Sigtuna amulet I PAS. Jesch 2020, pp. 210–211. Hines 2017, p. 118. Jesch 2020...
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    elimination of the sickness. Apotropaic magic Canterbury charm Kvinneby amulet Sigtuna amulet I PAS. Hines 2019, p. 36. Hines 2019, p. 40. Hines 2019, p. 37...
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    Sigtuna rib (category Amulets)
    pus. Flee away, fever! Canterbury charm Kvinneby amulet Near Fakenham plaque Ribe skull fragment Sigtuna amulet I "Startar..." app.raa.se. Retrieved 2022-07-07...
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    hallucinations and fevers. Apotropaic magic Canterbury charm Kvinneby amulet Sigtuna amulet I The source does not specify whether this refers to chelidonium...
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    for healing an illness caused by a þyrs, similar to the Sigtuna and Kvinneby amulets from Sweden. Some themes in British ballads and other popular culture...
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