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Luxryne

A Luxryne course

The Rune Hall

The Elder Futhark, read, cast and sung

The twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark as history and practice: their origins and families, reading a cast as a whole, bindrunes, and galdr, the old art of chanting the runes.

Begin: Origins of the Elder Futhark →Rune library and casting

By the end of this course you will

  • Know the 24 runes and the three aettir
  • Read merkstave and whole casts
  • Cast with the Norns and design bindrunes
  • Practise galdr and rune postures safely

Curriculum

  1. Module I

    The Futhark

    Where the runes come from and how they are ordered.

  2. Module II

    Reading and Casting

    Shadow aspects, casts and bindrunes.

  3. Module III

    The Voice of the Runes

    Galdr and stadhagaldr.

Course reading list

  • R. I. Page, Runes (British Museum Press, 1987)
  • Hávamál, stanzas 138–165 ('Rúnatal'), in the Poetic Edda (tr. Henry Adams Bellows, 1923)
  • Ralph W. V. Elliott, Runes: An Introduction (1959)
  • The Old English, Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic rune poems (e.g. in Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems, 1915)
  • Edred Thorsson, Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic (1984)
  • Freya Aswynn, Leaves of Yggdrasil (1990)
  • Tacitus, Germania ch. 10 (98 CE), on casting lots