Bronze Vegvisir Aegishjalmur Bead Handmade Braided Brown Genuine Leather Keychain Zipper Charm

This is a genuine handmade braided brown round leather keychain knot with real solid bronze center piece and end beads.

The large center piece bead is double sided featuring a Vegvisir and Aegishjalmur runic staves.

Vegvisir - a 'sign post' or 'runic compass', is an Icelandic magical stave intended to help the bearer find their way through rough weather. A page in the Huld Manuscript includes the image of the sigil and states that if this sign is carried, one will never lose his/her way in storms or bad weather even when the way is not know.

Aegishjalmur, or the Helm of Awe, is an Icelandic magical symbol of protection, also called stave, which has the power to induce fear and to protect against abuse of power. Early Vikings used to inscribe it on the forehead between the eyes. Aegishjalmur's main purpose was to protect and dominate in battle and also to instill fear and conquer fear in own mind.

The entire keychain length measures 2.25" inches or 55mm.

Futhark, or runic alphabet, goes around the Vegvisir. The runic alphabet is a collection of magical symbols. The runes have names, phonetic and magical meanings.

Runes are a Norse alphabet developed around 200 BCE, from characters used for magical purposes. According to Norse myth, the alphabet was discovered in a vision by the god Odin as he hung upside down and wounded for nine days on the World Tree Yggdrasil. There are three commonly known runic alphabets: the ‘elder’ and ‘younger’ Futhark (futhark being the transliteration of the first few letters of that alphabet), the Anglo-Saxon futhork, and the Danish ‘short twig’ or script alphabet.