Rauðskinna

alternative Raudskinna

1. A legendary Icelandic grimoire about black magic, which is said to have been buried with its author: the bishop Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson.

   This concerns Bishop Gottskalk the Grim and his powerful book of magic, the Rauðskinna (The Red Book, lit. “redskin”).

   1967 December 1, Einar Haugen, Fire and Ice: Three Icelandic Plays, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 20

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   […]but it seems much the same as another book often mentioned in the Icelandic magicians’ legends, the Rauðskinna (Redskin). Legend generally credits the authorship of the Rauðskinna to Gottskálk Nikulásson,[…]According to legend, he gathered together all the black spells, none of which had been used since heathen times, and compiled them as the Rauðskinna,[…]

   1997 July 31, Kevin J. Hayes, Folklore and Book Culture, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 51

   The most famous and sinister of all these books was Rauðskinna (Red-Skin).[…]Rauðskinna is said to be a book of the blackest magic, drawn from the Heathen Age.

   2016 January 22, Stephen E. Flowers, Icelandic Magic: Practical Secrets of the Northern Grimoires, Inner Traditions – Bear & Company, →ISBN, page 44