Discovering Runes: By Bob Oswald

I have been working on a new book about runes over the last couple of years. I wanted to publish something that would be useful to both experienced runesters and to novices in a down to earth and friendly style and without getting too technical.

All the books for novices that I have read are written like school text books - dry and boring. And all of those for experienced users seem to make wide assumptions about what the reader already knows. I mean, it is possible to be an experienced diviner without having read all the associated runelore, or without learning all the verses of the Edda. But every book I pick up seems to assume I know what they are talking about whatever the subject.

The Way of the Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer.

By Brian Bates http://www.wayofwyrd.com

The following are excerpts from various conversations between the Saxon Sorcerer Wolf and the young Christian missionary sent to study his ways.

On the Nature of Wyrd:

To understand our ways, you must learn the true meaning of wyrd… Our world began with fire and frost. By themselves, neither fire or frost accomplish anything. But together they create the world. Yet, they must maintain a balance, for too much fire would melt the frost, and excessive Frost would extinguish the fire. But just as the worlds of Gods, Middle-Earth and the Dead are constantly replenished by the marrying of fire and frost, so also they depend on the balance and eternal cycle of night and day, winter and summer, women and man, weak and strong, moon and sun, death and life. These forces and countless others, form the endpoints of a gigantic web of fibers which covers all worlds. The web is the creation of the forces, and its threads, shimmering with power, pass through everything.

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Rune Rede - by Ruarik Grimnisson

When I was in London this year which is very rare nowadays, I did my round in the bookshops and I bought a rune book which I had no seen before Rune Rede by Ruarik Grimnisson. This book is bloody good!

THE NATURAL GENESIS:

OR SECOND PART OF A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS, CONTAINING AN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER AND RECONSTITUTE THE LOST ORIGINS OF THE MYTHS AND MYSTERIES, TYPES AND SYMBOLS, RELIGION AND LANGUAGE, WITH EGYPT FOR THE MOUTHPIECE AND AFRICA AS THE BIRTHPLACE.

BY GERALD MASSEY

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