The Rune Poems: Old English, Norwegian and Icelandic Verses and Their Kennings
The three medieval rune poems are the closest we come to a voice from inside the runic tradition. What each one is, why they differ, and how to read their kennings.
The Elder Futhark, the rune poems, wyrd, seidr and the Norse world the runes came from.
The three medieval rune poems are the closest we come to a voice from inside the runic tradition. What each one is, why they differ, and how to read their kennings.
What Tacitus really says about Germanic lot-casting, how modern rune layouts work, why reversed runes are a modern convention, and how to make your own set of runes.
Three famous stones (Kylver, Rök, Jelling), what bind runes really were on the old inscriptions, and how some runes were taken over by 20th-century movements.
A source-based guide to Norse cosmology: the World Tree Yggdrasil, the well of Urðr and the three Norns, the meaning of wyrd, and the nine worlds hung on the tree.
Where the runes came from, how the 24-rune Elder Futhark was ordered, why the Viking age cut it to 16, and how the English expanded it to 29 and more.
What the Eddic poems and sagas actually say about runes: Odin on the tree, his eighteen charms, Sigrdrífa's lesson to Sigurd, Egil's carvings, and galdr and seiðr.