Table of Contents

Preface 1

Brief Introduction: All you need to know to start using the Extended Introduction: For those wanting a more detailed background 4

1 How to Use the Runes 24

Introduction

Getting to Know the Runes

Divination

The Rune Journal

Ritual

Magic

Rune Magic

2 The Anglo-Saxon Futhorc 38

Introduction

Runes Common to the Elder Futhark

Runes 1-24

The Rune Extension 75

Runes 25 - 33

3 Sample Readings 88

A Rune for the Day

A Divinatory Reading 89

4 Postscript to Runelore 93

The Futhorc

Tradition 95

Other Disciplines 96

Making Your Own Runes - A Reprise 97

Comparative Runology 98

Appendix A The Three Futharks: Shapes, names, and phonetic meanings 101

Appendix B The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem 104

Appendix C The Norse Rune Poem 109

Appendix D The Icelandic Rune Poem 112

Appendix E Havamal: Odin 115

Bibliography 120

Biography 122