The name appears in an Eddic poem, but the drawn eight-armed stave itself first appears only in Icelandic grimoires of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — the name is genuinely old, the picture is early modern, and the two are usually sold as one Viking-age object.
Fáfnismál, on the ægishjálmr as a spoken power; Galdrakver (c. 1670), the earliest source for the drawn stave
An eight-armed 'helm of terror' symbol, marketed as a Viking-age protective sign.
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