Runes Resources

[m1thr0s]

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• deviadah (dev)
• Ratatosk (ra)
• Talkingfox (tf)
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http://abrahadabra.com/images/firebullet.sm.gif Introduction:
The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters (known as runes), formerly used to write Germanic languages before and shortly after the Christianization of Scandinavia and the British Isles. The earliest runic inscriptions date from c150 and the alphabet was generally replaced by the Latin alphabet with Christianization, by c700 in central Europe and by c1100 in Scandinavia. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes in Scandinavia, longest in rural Sweden until the early 20th Century (used mainly for decoration as runes in Dalarna and on Runic calendars). - source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes)


http://abrahadabra.com/images/firebullet.sm.gif Internet Resources...
• Old Norse for Beginners (http://www.hi.is/%7Ehaukurth/norse/) | Old Norse For Beginners Includes Runic with nifty puzzles, lesson plans and everything. (tf)
• Runes - alphabet of mystery (http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/layouts.html) | Mostly useless. They have taken some less than accurate meanings for some of the runes, and runes don't actually lay out like tarot cards very well. (dev)
• Runic Unicode Chart (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A0.pdf) | As the name implies. (dev)
• Running the Tree: a short into to the Aettir (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1067) | Check out this thread for a quickie on the meanings of the runes. (ra)
• Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet) | Wiki on the Runic Alphabet. (dev)


http://abrahadabra.com/images/firebullet.sm.gif Downloadable pdf's...


http://abrahadabra.com/images/firebullet.sm.gif Recommended Books...

Histories & Academics
• A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions by Antonsen, Elmer H. | Runes and Germanic Linguistics, from 2002. (tf)
• Old English Runes and Their Continental Background by Bammesberger, Alfred (editor) | From 1991. (tf)
• Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes by Page, R. I. | I would actually recommend most everything from Page. His translations of the Rune poems are really good. Edited by David Parsons, 1995. (tf)
• Runes and their Origin: Denmark and Elsewhere by Moltke, Erik | Translated by Peter G. Foote, 1981. (tf)
• Runes Around the North Sea and on the Continent AD by Looijenga, Jantina Helena | 150-700: Texts and Contexts, 1997. (tf)
• Runes in Sweden, The by Jansson, Sven B. F. | Translated by Peter G. Foote, 1962. (tf)
• Runic Inscriptions of Viking, The by Barnes, Michael P., Jan Ragnar Hagland & R.I. Page | Age Dublin, from 1997. (tf)

Practical Application
• Rudiments of Runelore by Pollington, Stephen | From 1995. (tf)
• Runes: An Introduction by Elliott, Ralph W. V. | Elliot is another that I would recommend highly... not prone to new-age gobbledygook. (tf)


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[Ratatosk]

Cool. The first link is really useful for us tech types, thanks for that!

The Wikipedia entry, well, it's Wikipedia - ok for a quick once-over, but don't ever think of it as an authoritative source for anything.

The third link is mostly useless. They have taken some less than accurate meanings for some of the runes, and runes don't actually lay out like tarot cards very well. They are best thrown or pulled as one or three for a 'quick' answer. Just as, I have found, tarot cards don't work too well when cast rather than drawn and laid out. :o_O:

The chart you posted at the bottom has some serious issues. I won't go into all the issues here, but some of the more glaring:
The inclusion of a blank rune - there is no blank rune any more than there is a blank letter in our alphabet. The 'unkowable' is represented by poerd. [The first mention of a 'blank rune' was in the book and rune set from Ralph Blum. Interestingly, the square clay runes that came with the book fit nicely in five slots, large enough for five runes each. The blank served its best purpose as a packing piece to hold the others in place. Of course, it also looks nice in a fish tank. :laugh:]
Thurisaz (Thorn) as a gateway. Actually, this rune is representative of the weapons of the Jotun.
There are more problems, but most of the rest of them come from taking a minor (or slightly skewed) aspect of the particular rune's meaning.Check out this thread (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1067) for a quickie on the meanings of the runes. But again, thanks for the link to the unicode chart. I have a larger one, but since it lists all the possible unicode characters it gets ahrd to find the ones I am looking for sometimes.

[Nuhad418]

The chart you posted at the bottom has some serious issues. I won't go into all the issues here, but some of the more glaring:

The inclusion of a blank rune - there is no blank rune any more than there is a blank letter in our alphabet. The 'unkowable' is represented by poerd. [The first mention of a 'blank rune' was in the book and rune set from Ralph Blum. Interestingly, the square clay runes that came with the book fit nicely in five slots, large enough for five runes each. The blank served its best purpose as a packing piece to hold the others in place. Of course, it also looks nice in a fish tank. :laugh:]
Thurisaz (Thorn) as a gateway. Actually, this rune is representative of the weapons of the Jotun.
There are more problems, but most of the rest of them come from taking a minor (or slightly skewed) aspect of the particular rune's meaning.

Good lord when I read this thread I thought you posted the chart. I figured the Rat had gone mad. BLUM MUST BE PUNISHED!! :rofl: (no offense inteded at all to deviadah)

[Talkingfox]

. BLUM MUST BE PUNISHED!! :rofl: (no offense inteded at all to deviadah)


Punished at the very least. Lynching might suffice.

[Nuhad418]

Punished at the very least. Lynching might suffice.

:laugh: poor fox so bitter :laugh:

[deviadah]

Oh I know nothing about runes, although I can roughly read some of the more legible runic stones that are scattered around here where I live...

Don't know who Blum is? And I don't care to now...

:cool: