Monday, 15 February 2010

Thor's Hammers, staffs and runes in boxes!

New offer
10% off all pendants and wands

Offer excludes postage and packing costs
Offer ends 31st March 2010
Above and below: Hazel Nine Worlds staff
This staff has been crafted from Hazel wood. It is deeply carved with the Norse Rune of the Nine Worlds and also has each of the Elder Futhark runes inscribed. The bark is left intact and polished to a deep shine to bring out the beautiful warm brown colour of the wood. It's naturally a perfect, comfortable shape and weight for walking with and would make a good, magickal travelling companion. To order, please visit the main staffs page at Spirit of Old.

Length: Maximum posting length 1.4m (may need to be shortened slightly)

Item no: S048

Price: £50

Postage and packing: Within UK - £12.50

Above: Hazel Nine Worlds staff
Below: Twisted Birch Safe Travel Staff
Below: Twisted Birch Safe Travel Staff
This staff has been crafted from naturally twisted Birch wood. It is deeply carved with three bindrunes: two different ones for protection and one for safe travel. The bark is left intact and polished to a deep shine to bring out the beautiful red colour so characteristic of Birch wood. To order, please visit the main staffs page at Spirit of Old.

Length: Maximum posting length 1.4m (may need to be shortened slightly)

Item no: S047

Price: £60

Postage and packing: Within UK - £12.50

Above: Mistletoe Rune Set with Birch bark box
This beautiful rune set contains the full 24 Elder Futhark runes and is crafted from warm-coloured, naturally windfallen Mistletoe wood which grew upon an oak - a partnership considered sacred by Druids.

The runes are stored within a traditional Birch bark box. Birch bark has been used by many cultures throughout time to make containers. This box has been crafted with all-natural ingredients including handmade nettle cordage and pine resin glue, both created using methods dating from pre-history. The base and lid are crafted from Apple wood. To order or view more photographs please go to the main runes page at Spirit of Old.

A perfect gift idea for someone special in your life - or even just to treat yourself ;)

Rune Size: 0.75 inch/ 1 cm (approx. - varies slightly)
Box size: 4.5 inches/ 11.5 cm high
2 inches/ 5.25 cm diameter (approx.)

Item no: D083

Price: £100

Below: Bog Oak Rune Set with Birch bark box
This unusual rune set contains the full 24 Elder Futhark runes and is crafted from deepest black bog oak dating from around 200BC.

The runes are stored within a traditional Birch bark box. Birch bark has been used by many cultures throughout time to make containers. This box has been crafted with all-natural ingredients including handmade nettle cordage and pine resin glue, both created using methods dating from pre-history. The base and lid are crafted from Apple wood. To order or view more photographs please go to the main runes page at Spirit of Old.

A perfect gift idea for someone special in your life - or even just to treat yourself ;)

Rune Size: 0.75 inch x 1 inch/ 2 x 2.75 cm (approx. - varies slightly)
Box size: 4.25 inches/ 11 cm high
3 inches/ 8 cm wide (approx.)
1.5 inches/ 4 cm wide (approx.)

Item no: D082

Price: £80

Above: Avalonian bog oak Goddess bead
This beautiful bead is crafted from Avalonian bog oak and is carved with a Goddess. It can be purchased on a piece of thonging as a necklace or, for an additional £5, woven into a wristband from black cord thonging for a chunky wristband or deep brown flax for a thinner one (while stocks of flax last). To order, or for more photographs, please go to the main Avalonian Wares page at Spirit of Old.

Bead size: 4 cm/1.5 inches long (approx.)

Item no: PE733

Price: £40 as a necklace or
£45 as a wristband
Above and all below: The new range of Thor's Hammer Mjölnir Pendants
Thor's hammer, also known by its Norse name of Mjölnir or Mjöllnir, features in Norse mythology as one of the most fearsome weapons, capable of levelling mountains.

The Prose Edda (an Icelandic saga full of Norse mythology and written at the end of the Viking age) gives a summary of Mjölnir's special qualities in that, with Mjölnir, Thor:

... would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic.

Today, Thor's hammer is often used as a symbol of protection.

Prices for these particular pendants range from £40 - £70. For more information or to order please go to the main Thor's Hammer page at Spirit of Old.