Vegvísir
Vegvísir, the 'wayfinder', is an Icelandic magical stave drawn as a central point with radiating runic spokes, first attested in the Huld manuscript, compiled by Geir Vigfússon at Akureyri in 1860. The accompanying text promises that whoever carries the sign will never lose their way in storm or bad weather, even when the path is unknown, and the stave is drawn on paper, wood, or metal and carried as a talisman. Although it is often called a 'Viking compass', the earliest known source is a 19th-century grimoire, and the symbol has no confirmed Viking-Age counterpart — a point that popular cult