I knew this and still got it tatted after i graduated rehab to remind me to always find my way back to original self and to never go back to my old ways
@@sternmbikay8505 Being made up by a Christian 800 years after Norse went extinct makes it fake. It's no more magical than a kid drawing a stick figure.
You mean in the beginning and end of the video? 0:02 4:15 That's the Elder Futhark alphabet. It has even less to do with the Vegvisir than it has with the Viking age. The elder Futhar was replaced by the younger Futhark, the script the old Norse used, about 200 years before the viking age started. The first mention of Vegvisir was over 800 years after it ended. Separating the two roughly a millennium.
Where is the proof vegvisir was carved on boats!! It's a 19th century Christian symbol and there is no artefact or boat of the Viking age with this symbol!
@@dylanupdyke2745 I guess it's really a "magical" symbol. However, it's interesting: the authors of sources that contain the magical staves, like Vegvisir in the Huld or the earlier staves in the Galdrabók were Christian given that Iceland had been Christian for more than 500 years before these texts appeared. It's also an interesting coincidence that they bear a striking resemblance to the staves and sigils in "magical" grimoires written in the 15th to 18th centuries. Take a look at the "Seal of Solomon" for example! There was a really interesting time in Christian Europe where the Christians were much more "magical" than they would be today.
@@GreatOldOne9866 The Vegvísir was made up in the 19th century, it was meant to help you find your way during storms, and it was made clear that it will only work for the pious christians.
@@GreatOldOne9866 It is not a Christian symbol in that it's part of their faith but it was invented by a Christian that was making things up about the Norse to seem like a relevant historian. There isn't a single example of it being used before the mid 1800s by said Christian author.
