Korablev L. Leonid ships - from stories about Old Icelandic witchcraft and the hidden people. Under the general editorship

Leonid Leonidovich Korablev was born in Moscow in 1971, back in the Soviet Union, and achieved impressive success by the time he was forty. A variety of interests led Leonid to become a professional in the field of philology, Germanic culture, runology, a specialist in the cultural heritage of Iceland. His artistic graphic works dedicated to the work of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien are famous all over the world.

The first exhibitions of Leonid's graphic and sculptural works began in Moscow, later, in 1994 - 1998. - in San Francisco, Minnesota, Framingham (USA), his graphic works were published in American magazines.

In the United States of America, where Leonid lived for several years, in 1996 Leonid's first website appeared, where his articles were published, including popular articles that became widespread, “A treatise on how to seek and find ways of communicating with the now hidden A bright people, that is, with true elves "and" True elves of Europe ", and his artwork. Since the 21st century, Korablev's name has become popular in his homeland, in Russia. Leonid begins to publish books in Russian.

The most famous work in 2002 is the book "The Graphic Magic of Icelanders", already published in Moscow.

The year 2003 was marked by such literary novelties as the folklore collection "From stories about Old Icelandic witchcraft and the Hidden People" and a work in the esoteric genre "Runic conspiracies and apocryphal prayers of the Icelanders."

In 2005, new wonderful books were published - this is the famous book “Runology by Joun Oulafs-son from Grunnwick. Icelandic treatises of the 17th century ”, which is a translation made by Leonidas directly from an unpublished Icelandic manuscript of the 18th century. AM 413 fol. "Runology" and commented on by him, and the brochure "Witchcraft Flight: Runic Astrology" - an overview of the kabbalistic tradition in Icelandic magic books.

In 2008, the Elven Story Book was published, which explores the beliefs in elves in Iceland. In the same year, Leonid records video lectures on runes: "Unique futark magic", "Runes: the circle is closed."

In 2009, two magnificent works were published: a biographical story about the Icelandic sorcerer, runologist and friend of the elves Joun Gvüdmunds-son the Scientist - "Joun the Scribe-Sorcerer" and the second edition of the famous book "Graphic Magic of Icelanders" (corrected and supplemented by Leonid). Another video lecture was recorded, "Icelandic runes and galdra-staves".

In 2010, a book appeared, which also aroused great interest among readers, “Anglo-Saxon Magic. Icelandic herbalist ".

In 2011, two independent editions were published, a brochure on ancient Germanic magic "Uti-setur" or magic in the open air "and a brochure on Icelandic runic alphabets" Fourteen sorcerous rune-rows of Iceland ".

2012 saw the emergence of new runology brochures such as Icelandic Magic Futork, Elder Futhark: Runic Mythology and Runic Cryptography: Elven Runes.

In 2013, Leonid Korablev publishes a report on his visit to the elven places of Iceland, mentioned in various folklore sources, "Travel of L. Korablev to the elven places of Iceland (2008, 2011 and 2012)".

Currently, Leonid Korablev is engaged not only in the creation of literary works, but also shares his knowledge with many people who follow the path of self-improvement and knowledge of the world of secrets. He conducts face-to-face seminars and lectures on runes, ancient Germanic and Icelandic culture. Having become acquainted with his work, each person who has an attraction to mysticism and magic gets the opportunity to master unique knowledge.

Some of Leonid Korablev's works have been translated into English, Icelandic and Swedish. Leonid was repeatedly awarded by the Icelandic Embassy in the Russian Federation, awarded a grant from the Aurtni Magnusson Institute of Manuscripts in Iceland for the promotion of Icelandic culture in Russia. Books by Leonid Korablev are kept in the National Library of Iceland. He was awarded the Yesenin Gold Medal and the Diploma For Faithful Service to Russian Literature.

Leonid Korablev

From stories about Old Icelandic witchcraft and the Hidden People

Translated from Icelandic

and notes

Leonid Korableva

Under the general editorship

and with a preface

Anton Platova

BBK 86.4 I32

I32 From stories about Old Icelandic witchcraft and the Hidden People / Per. from Old Iceland, - M .: ID "Sofia", 2003. - 176 p.

ISBN 5-9550-0008-9

WONDERFUL PEOPLE (Editor's Foreword)

They were called by different names. Wonderful, Ancient, Elder, Tall; elves, alves, aulva, elba; fay, firey; seeds or shi; Inhabitants of the Hills or, finally, just Those... The real old names are now almost forgotten, almost everywhere supplanted by English elf and French faerie. And the names that were used earlier were hardly true - if only because they were invented by the people themselves: in Scotland they were called Daoine Sithe,"Wonderful People", in Wales - Tylfyt Teg,"Marvelous Births", in Ireland - Huldu, Huldu Folk,"Ancient People" ...

The notions of elves - let's take this name here for brevity - the notions of elves were very "tenacious" in Europe, in spite of both Christianization and progress that was striding by leaps and bounds. In the British outback, for example, they talked about elves back in the late 19th - early 20th centuries:

I'm sorry, what? Tell you about the elves? Well, elves, they are different. I don’t know how where, but here in Sussex the old elves - those who lived in the forests and underground - have gone a long time ago. It is said that they loved to settle in the old ruins. In Sussex, these elves once lived on the ruins of Barlow Castle - this is near Arlington. Now almost nothing remains of the castle itself - only fragments of walls here and there - but at the time when each country had its own king, it was a very famous and famous place. But whatever it was before, a hundred years ago, none of the local residents dared to come close to the ruins after it got dark - they were afraid of the elves.

It is also said that earlier at midnight on the eve of the summer solstice one could see elves dancing on the peaks of Tabbury Hill and Gissbury; there, too, were fortresses a long time ago. And at one of the old burial grounds, once they even saw an elven funeral procession ...

But what can I say, it was a long time ago! Now I am already quite an old man, and when I was still quite a boy, the then old people told that these elves did not like at all how life was changing in England, and the new manners of people simply outraged them. Already in those days, there were fewer and fewer of them, and their last refuge - the last in Sussex, and maybe in all of England! - was Harrow Hill. Harrow Hill is a large hill near Patching where there are old flint mines and where there was once a fortress too. Maybe the elves would have lived there to this day, but once learned people - archaeologists - arrived and began to excavate Harrow Hill. These were not interested in any elves; they laughed when we told them about the Fairy People ... Well, then these last elves took offense to death and left forever ...

One old woman once told me that it is from elven dances that magic rings remain in the grass - you know, such circles of crushed grass. And what if you go around such a ring nine times on the first night of the new moon, then you can hear their music from under the ground, which cannot be more beautiful. What's the point - those elves are no longer here ... 1

There is a great variety of materials associated with elves - if we understand by this term the Wonderful People in general, and not narrowly "supernatural beings of Anglo-Saxon and German folklore" - there is a great variety: these are the texts of European legends and traditions, and descriptions in chronicles, and folklore evidence of the last centuries , and much more. And nevertheless, it is better to start acquaintance with the Wonderful People with fairy tales that keep the very spirit. an ancient tradition associated with elves.

With all the huge variety of fairy tales associated with elves, some of them are so common, and have so much in common among different peoples that they may well claim to be considered classics of fairy tales about the Wonderful People. Perhaps one of the most common such plots is those that once allowed to add one more to a number of names - Marvelous, Ancient, Tall: Fair.

In Ireland, this tale is told about the elves of the ancient Knockgrafton Hill 2. As if a poor hunchback named Foxtail once lived in the Aherloe Valley, kind and hard-working, but so terrible because of his hump that people shunned him. Once he happened to return from the town of Kahir, where he was selling baskets woven with his own hands, and the night found him at the foot of Knockgrafton Hill ...

He was tired and exhausted, and he still had to drag very far, he would have to walk all night - it was just that one could come to despair at the thought of it. So he sat down by the hill to rest and looked sadly at the moon.

Soon, the discordant sounds of some wild melody came to his ears. Little Fox Tail listened and thought that he had never heard such delightful music before. It sounded like a choir of several voices, and one voice merged so strangely with the other that it seemed as if only one voice was singing, and yet all the voices pulled different sounds ... 3

The beautiful foam coming from the Hill so captured the hunchback that he himself did not notice how he began to quietly sing along and even added a few of his own words to the elven - and these were elves, of course - song.

Suddenly, everything spun in front of Fox Tail, and now he is already standing in a beautiful banquet hall inside the Hill, and the elves surrounding him tell him that rarely has any mortal managed to catch the elven singing so beautifully. But then the elves parted, and a large procession stepped forward. The Majestic Lady, who was at the head of the procession, approached the short hunchback and uttered the words of a spell:

Fox's tail! Fox's tail!
Your word - by the way,
Your song is to the place
And you yourself - to the court.
Look at yourself, rejoicing, and not grieving:
There was a hump, and there is no hump 4.

And as soon as the words were heard, Fox Tail felt his terrible hump disappear from his back. And then…

... all with great surprise and admiration he began to look over and over again all the objects around him, and from time to time they seemed to him more beautiful and more beautiful; this splendor made his head spin, his eyes darkened, and, at last, he fell into a deep sleep, and when he woke up, long ago the day had come, the sun was shining brightly, and the birds were singing affectionately. He saw that he was lying at the foot of Knockgrafton Hill, with cows and sheep grazing peacefully around.

Fox Tail returned to his town, and everyone was very amazed that his hump had completely disappeared, and that he himself had become such a sturdy man.

After some time, an old woman from a distant village came to Fox Tail and said that her neighbor's son had a big terrible hump and that, having heard about the miracle that happened to Fox Tail, he wanted to try to get rid of the hump in the same manner.

Fox Tail, as already mentioned, was a kind man and, without hiding anything, told his whole story to the old woman. She returned home, and word for word told everything to her neighbor's son - a humpwell named Jack Madden. Without hesitation, he got ready to go and one night - with the help of his mother and her neighbor who went to Fox Tail, - reached the foot of Knockgrafton Hill.

And when the darkness finally hid the Hill, from its depths came the most beautiful singing. True, it didn’t seem beautiful to Jack - he was too busy dreaming that the elves would appear now, and they would thank him, and remove the boring hump from him to death. Without thinking about the rhythm, or the melody, or the beauty of the song, Jack Madden began to tighten.

And no sooner had the first words escaped his lips than some force lifted him into the air, and he found himself in a beautiful hall inside the Hill. Everything seemed to be the same as with Fox Tail, only that the elves for some reason looked angry. And one of them approached Jack and uttered a spell:

Jack Madden! Jack Madden!
Your word is not new
Speeches - they contradict the song,
And you yourself are out of place.
You howled poor, became rich,
A humpback howled, became a double humpback.

ANDbarely the words were heard when poor Jack's hump doubled. And then everything began to spin before his eyes, and when he woke up, it was already morning, and he was lying at the foot of Knockgrafton Hill.

Leonid Leonidovich Korablev(born August 17, 1971, Moscow, RSFSR) - modern Russian writer, runologist, philologist-Germanist, linguist, specialist in Icelandic culture, artist.

Until the age of seventeen, he bore the surname Matsuev, after - Korablev (actual translation from German into Russian of the surname Schipper on the maternal side). Graduated from the Moscow Secondary Art School. Tomsky at the V.I. Surikov. Certified sculptor. Member of the Writers' Union of Russia. The first exhibitions of his graphic and sculptural works dedicated to the work of J. Tolkien were held in Moscow, and later, in 1994 - 1998, in San Francisco, Framingham, Minnesota, Boston (USA). Published in American magazines Parma Eldalamberon, Tyaliё Tyelelliéva, Ravenhill, Beyond Bree (graphics, articles). In 1996 the Leonid Korablev Gallery website was created in the USA. On the same site in 1997, he published "A Treatise on how to find ways to communicate with ... true elves" and other works. Published in Russian since 2000 (author of nine books on Old Icelandic / Scandinavian topics). He was twice awarded by the Ambassador of Iceland to the Russian Federation. Books by Leonid Korablev are in the National Library of Iceland.

Books

The voices of the trees. Anglo-Saxon magic. Card reading

Articles (research, translations, stories)

There are three kinds of Elves under the sky (“Tyaliё Tyelelliéva”, N 9, 1995: 8-11) [article]
Northern witchcraft and pagan practices in medieval Scandinavian laws ("Myths and magic of the Indo-Europeans", N 11, 2002, pp. 76-85) [article]
The True Elves of Europe [article]
Unfallen Elves of Tolkien [article]
A treatise on how to seek and find ways of communicating with the now hidden Light people, that is, with the true elves [treatise]
How in the old days the winter festival was celebrated in the north-west of Europe [story for children]
A short introduction to the first edition of the book "From Tales of Old Icelandic Witchcraft and the Hidden People" 1997 [article]
Ancient Europeans, trees, herbs, magic [article]
Samsons saga fagra [translation]
Sea King Ivar Volnogon [story]
Moscow Viking Igor Olegov [story]
Concise ancient Germanic mythological dictionary [dictionary]
Experience of the Old Norse World System as ImageMap [interactive note]
The graphic magic of the Icelanders [article]
The witch who knew the white demons, for that is what they [Vostaki] called the elves [report]
Gifts of elves to humans [note]
"Spirits of Iceland" (documentary film) (Spirits of Iceland) [translation and commentary]
Those who see through mountains and hills (Þeir sem sjá í gegnum holt oc hola) [talk]
Runes of speech and Powerful runes (Málrúnir og rammrúnir) [article]
Nether Tambourine and Gand-Alpha? (Shamanic drum and Gand-álfr) [note]
The bowls of the Son and Bodn will slowly fill (Seint munu fyllast Són og Boðn) [translation]
Icelandic authors writing about elves during the "golden ages of belief in elves" in Iceland in the 16th and 18th centuries. (Álfa-öldin) [directory]
Icelandic folk calendar and calendars of other Germanic peoples [article]
Explanatory articles to the graphics of L. Korablev [notes]
Charo-Leifi and the elves (Galdra-Leifi og álfar) [note]
On the signs of the growing moon (Um merki á komandi túngli) [translation]
Riddle [riddle]
Icelandic dream book (Drauma útþýðing / drauma-ráðningar) [translation]
Icelandic Omens (Kreddur) [translation]
Icelandic mythological idioms [note]
The “runes” of sir Thomas More [note]
From the book about Joun Gudmundson the Scientist (Joun the Scribe-Wizard) (Ævisaga Jóns Guðmundssonar lærða) [excerpts from the book]
Elven Traditions in Kristinn E. Andresson's Pro-Communist Book "Contemporary Icelandic Literature" 1918-1948 [article]
Iceland's "wolf" - arctic fox [article]
Orngaladion [article]
Icelanders in XXI century Russia [autobiographical sketch]
Icelanders in 21st Century Iceland [autobiographical sketch]
Fourteen Arcane Rune Rows in Iceland [article]
Addition to the list of names of Icelandic runes and letters, images of which were discovered by L. Korablev in Icelandic manuscripts of the 17th-20th centuries [article]
Dream Elves (Draum-Álfar) [article]
Confusing letters (villuletur) [article]