Today, people who want to see the valknut can view it on various artifacts in Scandinavian museums, including: The only thing McCoy is good at is (as is obvious) search engine optimization and passing himself off online as an expert.What is the meaning of the valknut symbol? See below What Is the Meaning of the Valknut Symbol? It's by a stupid person for stupid people.
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His website is by and large based off Wikipedia, and secondarily tertiary sources available in English like HR Davidson's old (and outdated) books and Simek's A Dictionary of Northern Mythology sources and is full of misrepresentations and errors and downright internet garbage. It's written by a complete layperson with no degree or real knowledge. (The website) is frequently inaccurate and often confused: Although he frequently draws from scholar Rudolf Simek's handbook, McCoy makes major mistakes on nearly every page of "Norse Mythology for Smart People".ĭont buy this book or visit this guy's website.
While McCoy advertises his site as "The Ultimate Online Guide to Norse Mythology and Religion" on nearly every page (and rates his book the "best" book on the topic of Norse Mythology over the works of academics), it's important to note that McCoy isn't an academic and has no formal background in this material, but is rather an individual willing to present his website as "the ultimate online guide" to the topic, and his guide as "the best" guide to the topic. "Norse Mythology for Smart People" is an ad for a self-published book presented by a self-appointed "expert". Want a more in-depth look at McCoy? Check out these excerpts from posts written by some of r/Norse's users involved in academia: Don't be fooled by someone copying off Wikipedia- check out r/Norse's reading list in the sidebar or this guide written by -Geistzeit instead. The only thing McCoy is good at is search engine optimization and relentless self-promotion. Presents itself as the "best" book on the topic of Norse mythology over the works of academics like Simek, despite Dan McCoy having no formal academic background? Is mostly based off Wikipedia and Rudolf Simek's A Dictionary of Northern Mythology?Ĭontains numerous mistakes and outdated research? There seems to be more to the symbol than death and sacrifice.
Evidence suggests that the symbol's original contents go far beyond the common themes of interpretation, which are none the less fossilized in both scholarly and neopagan discussion. The symbol frequently occurs with horses on other Gotlandic picture stones - maybe suggestive of a horse cult? It also occurs on jewelry, coins, knife-handles, and other more or less mundane objects. Most likely the "meaning" of the symbol was prestige, like so many other foreign influenced fashions. The "valknut" was most likely simply borrowed from Christian Anglo-Saxons and Carolingians If there was any meaning ascribed to the symbol, we are left in the dark, but claims of Odinnic or mortuary connections are unfounded. Want a more in-depth look at the symbol? Check out these excerpts and follow the links: Compare for example this Northumbrian sceatta with this coin from Ribe. R/Norse has an automod response for the Valknut which contains some citations and sources for some ideas in regards to its origins-ĭid you know that the word "valknútr" is unattested in Old Norse, and was first applied to the symbol by Gutorm Gjessing in his 1943 paper "Hesten i førhistorisk kunst og kultus", and that there is little to no basis for connecting it with Óðinn and mortuary practices? In fact, the symbol was most likely borrowed from the triquetras appearing on various Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian coins. You just can't in good conscience walk around saying "it meant this." Today it can have meaning applied to it, if that's important to you. Unless a runestone is unearthed detailing exactly what its origins are and what it represented we'll probably never know, and that's okay. We can make guesses, but to say we have any real hard evidence is disingenuous. What is the significance of the Valknut? We don't really know.
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