sentences:  He held that runic magic is more active than the allegedly shamanic practice of seid practiced by the Seiðkona.Runic magic, he states, uses the runes to affect the world outside based on the archetypes they represent.Most of Gundarsson's runic magic entails being in possession of a physical entity that is engraved with any or all of the individual runes or "staves", so as to practically work with their energies.