Reading list

These are the books I found most useful/reliable. They are arranged alphabetically by title.

Dictionary of Northern Mythology, by Rudoph Simek

Hanging by the Tree, by Scott Mohnkern
Gods and Myths of Norhtern Europe, H.R. Ellis Davidson
An Introduction to English Runes, R.I. Page
Literacy in the Germanic Iron Age, Stephan Pollington
Long Branches, by Ann Gra Sheffield
Odins Gateway, Katie Gerrard
The Old English Rune Poem: a critical edition, by Maureen Halsall
o Now available in paperback!
Myth and Religion of the North, by O.E.G. Turville-Petre
Norse Mythology: a guide to gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs, by John Lindow
Northern Mythology, by, Rudolph Simek
Runes, by R.I. Page
Runes, by Ralph Elliott
Runes in Theory and Practice, by Galina Krasskova
Seed of Yggdrasil, by Maria Kvilhaug
Seider, by Katie Gerrard
Stanzas of the Old English Rune Poem (vol. 1) by Gary Stanfield
o Free: (http://runicwisdom.info/rwtoc.htm)
Vlusp, The Divination of the Witch, translation by Maria Kvilhaug
o To purchase, see her website: http://freya.theladyofthelabyrinth.com/
o Also visit her Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyoftheLabyrinth

A few of these books are expensive/difficult to find. However, many university libraries carry
academic books; check out worldcat.org to see which libraries near you have the books you want
(world cat searches public as well as university libraries.) Many of the shorter articles I read
while researching my own book were found on Jstor.org. Most are free to read online.

And of course (shameless plug!) theres my book Anglo Saxon Runes: an Introduction, available
at Amazon.com
Other excellent online resources include:
Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, by J.R. Clark Hall
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31543?msg=welcome_stranger

Bosworth-Toller Anglo Saxon Dictionary online

http://www.bosworthtoller.com/
(Occasionally Bosworth Toller goes down; if you get an unable to reach this website or similar
message, try again in a few days)

Norse Mythology Online Library

http://www.norsemyth.org/p/books.html

Icelandic Saga Database

http://sagadb.org

Heritage, Culture and Lore of the Germanic Tribes; both the Poetic and Prose Eddas can be
found in both ON and modern English
http://www.voluspa.org/

Sacred Texts (covers a vast array of sacred texts from around the world)
www.sacred-texts.com

Dan McCoys website (Norse Mythology for Smart People)

http://norse-mythology.org/

Raven Kalderas website

http://www.northernshamanism.org/welcome.html

Gangleris Grove (Galina Krasskovas blog)

https://krasskova.wordpress.com/

Angel Millars website:

https://angelmillar.com/author/angelmillardesign/
We tend to think of runes as this:

Elder Futhark (in use from the 2nd-8th centuries, CE):

/ /

Younger Futhark (in use from the 8th-12th centuries CE):

/ /

Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (in use from the 5th-10th centuries, CE): /

/ / 1

But this is what they really look like:

They also looked like this:

1 In nearly all academic texts, is the shape of both the runes ear and cweor. In occult texts cweor is
invariably drawn . Likewise, in occult texts we find the J-rune appearing only as in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc,
with no mention of the fact that is found only in late-period manuscripts. The usual shape of the J-rune from later
Anglo-Saxon epigraphical sources is ; in older inscriptions, it takes the form of from the Elder Futhark.
There are several theories about which alphabet/s the runes were (at least in part) modeled
after