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A pretty good edition of the Galdrabok, and notably, not by a well known nazi. It makes a couple of unfortunate decisions. None of the Latin is translated on the page, and some of it -- but not all -- is translated in the glossary in the back. That means you have to forage through glossary entries to find the sections with the Latin, they're all mixed in together, and sometimes it turns out the passage you're looking for just wasn't included. The form factor probably made it impossible to do footnotes, but endnotes would have been more appropriate than putting the translations in the glossary. Or, since it's an English translation, just translating them.

The other annoying thing is a brief section by a tattoo artist who specializes in medieval Icelandic staves -- they end their section with the standard racist dogwhistle about people turning to folk belief because of the "homogenizing effect of globalization," but you can just skip these random 8 pages and move on to the actual book, which is edited and translated by academics, who, if nothing else, at least know enough to not say dumb shit like that in their book.

It's also got supposedly the first translation of a very short text they call the Earth Skin book, which features an odd spell using a bronze rod fashioned to look like a spear, stuck into the earth.