PLEASE NOTE

The below entries are subject to change as the Kvasir Symbol Database project continues to evolve. For more information regarding the database, please see the KSD “About” page.

Contents

• Updates

• Index of Entries

  1. 1. Ancient Germanic Record

  2. 2. Icelandic Occult Symbols

  1. 3. Modern Symbols

updates

• July 2, 2023:

  • Symbols Used by Nazi Germany, Neo-Nazis, and/or Far-Right Extremists

• August 2, 2021:

  • On the Shapes of Gods: On Historic Depictions of Ancient Germanic Deities & the Imagery of Mimisbrunnr.info

• March, 2021:

  • Water, Water Body, & Ship

• October 19, 2020:

  • Wilhelm Teudt’s “Irminsul” symbol

• August 25, 2020:

  • Apple & Apple Tree

• May 25, 2020:

  • Numbers

• April 28, 2020:

  • Antlers & Stag

• April 12, 2020:

  • Sacred Tree & Holy Grove

• April 6, 2020:

  • Bee & Honey

  • Web of Wyrd

1. Ancient Germanic Record

The following symbols occur in a variety of contexts throughout records of speakers of ancient Germanic languages:

• Apple & Apple Tree

• Antler & Stag

• Bee & Honey

• Bird

• Bowen Knot, Apple command key symbol (⌘)

• Color

• Depictions of Deities

• Foot

• Hammer

• Horn-bearer

• Leek

• “Mask” Stone image

• Moon

• Numbers (three, multiples of three; Germanic numerology)

• Phallus

• Raven

• Runes

• Sacred Tree & Holy Grove

• Serpent

• Sun

• Sleipnir

• Swastika

• Triskelion

• “Valknut”

• Water, water body, & ship

• Wolf

2. ICELANDIC OCCULT SYMBOLS

A variety of symbols extend from medieval Icelandic folk practice. As with many folk customs, whether these symbols derive from earlier tradition or were a later development remains unknown. Nonetheless, they do form an element of continuity in that some explicitly invoke North Germanic deities. Commonly encountered symbols include the following:

• Ægishjálmur

• Vegvisir

3. MODERN SYMBOLS

The following symbols derive from the last century or so from a variety of origins:

• “Black sun”

• Wilhelm Teudt’s “Irminsul” symbol

• Web of Wyrd

• Wolf’s Hook