 | The Rune Primer: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Runes by Sweyn, Plowright
Buy new: £9.57 / Used from: £12.13 Start from an informed perspective. Historical facts about runes in plain English. Old sources and translations. Esoteric interpretations. Reviews of popular authors. Modern myths exposed.
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 | Pierced by the Light: Viking Gods, Runes and 21st Century Magic by Rig Svenson
An educated Heathen speaks about runes & the Old Gods, and speaks out against the recent "invention of tradition".
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 | Rudiments of Runelore by Stephen Pollington
Buy used from: £5.52 The basic academic facts about runic tradition. Esoteric focus, but no New-Age fantasies or imaginary cults.
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 | Runes (Reading the past) by R.I. Page
Buy used from: £4.68 A short academic overview of the runes by a foremost Professor. Useful for checking claims made in other books.
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 | Voluspa: Seidhr As Wyrd Consciousness by Yngona Desmond
Buy used from: £26.83 By a scholar & practitioner. A prophetic Old Norse text is examined for its deeper revelations about shamanic perception & Wyrd.
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 | Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin W. Robinson
Buy used from: £19.38 An excellent overview of the languages spoken by the original rune users.
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 | Our Troth: History and Lore: 1
Buy used from: £35.49 A comprehensive view of the Nordic mythology and its relationship to modern Heathen life.
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 | An Introduction to English Runes by R.I. Page
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £11.50 Another scholarly book by the Professor, if you are looking for plain historical facts.
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 | Runic Amulets and Magic Objects by Mindy MacLeod
Buy new: £35.00 / Used from: £65.67 The only genuine survey of historical runic magical objects.
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 | Way of the Runes (Thorsons Way of) by Bernard King
Buy used from: £5.85 One of the better popular books. Quite well researched.
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 | The Runecaster's Handbook: The Well of Wyrd by Edred Thorsson
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £2.99 Popular & speculative. More scholarly than most, but doesn't always separate speculation from fact.
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 | Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide to Using Runes in Spells, Rituals, Divination, and Magic by Diana L. Paxson
Buy new: £20.40 / Used from: £10.04 Fairly ecclectic & Neopagan, some attempt to be scholarly. Worth reading, but a little too reliant on inventive modern rune writers.
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 | Uthark: Nightside of the Runes by Thomas Karlsson
Based largely on Thorsson's "Odian" philosophy. Completely speculative.
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 | A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magick (Llewellyn's New Age) by Lisa Peschel
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.21 Example of a popular New-Age "fluffy" rune manual. To be taken with a grain of salt & some historical facts from books listed above.
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 | Reading the Runes: A Beginner's Guide by Kim Farnell
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £7.99 Another example of a popular New-Age rune manual. Even fluffier.
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 | The Book of Runes by Ralph Blum
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £0.33 The first really popular rune manual, completely fluffy, considered by many one of the worst. Claims to be about Viking runes. No Vikings consulted here.
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 | Little Big Book Of Runes (Little Big Book (Astrolog)) by Hali Morag
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £19.32 I just found one worse than Blum's. Unbelievable!
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