#book reccomendations
Here’s something I’m really excited about: I edited and republished a historical work! Search “Icelandic Wrestling: A Study on Brókartök Glíma: A Viking Martial Art” to find it on Amazon! You can also check out vinlandhema on Instagram if you’re interested in this sort of thing, all the techniques in this manual are detailed on that page (check out the Brókartök highlight).
Brókartök Glíma is a martial art and folkstyle of wrestling, part of the broader umbrella of Glíma brought to Iceland by its Viking settlers. Glima is an authentic viking martial art, still practiced today. Brókartök is the most well known aspect of Glíma, the pants grip variation of Glíma, where both players take and use a fixed grip on the pants throughout the match. There’s a few theories on why, and my afterword for this text explains every theory I’ve come across. Brókartök literally translates to pants-grip from Icelandic.
If you’re interested in Brókartök Glíma, learning more about this exciting and dynamic historical martial art, or just willing to support my work on HEMA (especially Viking HEMA), picking up this book would be a great way to do it. Even just liking and sharing to boost would help a lot !!!
Aye I’m now an author/ editor on Amazon thanks to KDP! If you’re interested in Nordic stuff or HEMA (historical European martial arts), I’m publishing thoroughly edited editions of old grimoires and HEMA manuals!
If you’d like to support my work, purchasing from my Amazon page is a great way to do it, and if you’d be willing to support me by boosting this post, you’d have my eternal gratitude!
I’ll also do a giveaway soon of some copies of “Icelandic Wrestling” by Johannes Josefsson, and my folkloric compilation work “the Braucherei Grimoire”, so stay tuned for that and you might get a copy!!
A few people have messaged me asking for my master list of working pdfs. This is what I have and its not super organized but it is in alphabetic order for what its worth. Anyways, they’re all free so please please please save them, download them, print them and most importantly READ THEM if you come across any that strike your fancy. Also, I’m not saying that every single one of these books are completely amazing, but either way, they’re here for you to make your own value judgements on.
A Modern Goetic Grimoire by Rufus Opus
Afro-Caribbean Religions by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Astral Doorways by J.H Brennan
Azoetia by Andrew Chumbley
Blood Sorcery Bible Volume 1 by Sorceress Cagliastro
Call of the Horned Piper by Nigel Aldcroft Jackson
Children of Cain by Michael Howard
Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine
Conjure Codex
Creating Magickal Entities by David Cunningham
Cunningfolk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby
Curses, Hexing, and Crossing by S. Connolly
Devoted to Death by R. Andrew Chesnut
Diabolical published by Scarlett Imprint
Goetic Spellwork by S. Aldarnay
Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J Carroll
Lords of the Left Hand Path by Stephen E. Flowers
Mardukite Magick by M. Cecchetelli
Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Huson
Necronomicon
Obeah by Nicholas de Matos Frisvold
Obeah: WItchcraft in the West Indies by Hesketh J. Bell
The Candle and the Crossroads by Orion Foxwood
The Grimoire of the Golden Toad by Andrew Chumbley
The Language of Birds by Dale Pendell
The Red King by Mark Alan Smith
The Scorpion God by Mark Alan Smith
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie by Emma Wilby
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook by M. Bertiuax
Pacts with the Devil by S. Jason Black & Christopher S. Hyatt
Psalter of Cain
Qabala, Qilpth, and Goetic Magic by Thomas Karlson
Queen of Hell by Mark Alan Smith
Runecaster’s Handbook by Edred Thorsson
Runelore by Edred Thorsson
Saint Cyprian: Saint of Necromancers by Conjureman AliThere’s some good gems among these
Just remember to take all writings with a grain of salt. Writer bias is real and nothing is 100% true all the time
“You don’t cross my mind, you occupy it.”
Margaret Rose
