A review by roguemultiverse
Icelandic Magic: Practical Secrets of the Northern Grimoires by Stephen E. Flowers

3.0

This book was interesting from a historical perspective, but I’m not sure how useful much of it, particularly the later parts of it, will be from a practical perspective. Although I appreciate the minimalism involved and the encouragement to develop one’s own staves after becoming familiar with how they work, several of the spells didn’t sit well with me, and one was particularly appalling. It was for a man to gain the love of a woman while basically cursing her should she not comply. To his credit, the author/translator of this part of the text is merely describing what has already been described in the original text, but were it me I’d personally have written some kind of word of caution about considering if this is really what one wants to do when other spells, such as one designed to call attention to one’s attributes, might be better.