FRUITS OF YGGDRASIL

This picture should be dead square but I ripped of the net and this is how it comes. 

This is the recording I am most proud off still, although it was recorded 20 years ago when I still looked good:-) ah well we all get older.  This was at the time I was living and running 'the Enclave' my London urban community, of all sorts thrown together!  Fruits has been rereleased and the cover of it is the dogs bollock, it's even better than the first one, the silver embossed Runes on the black background looks excellent. there are also T shirts with this design on it, I am wearing one right now and I was wearing one yesterday when I did a reading which should be on Youtube soon.  The first  track: 'Havamal' I took from the Edda and altered it so rather than Odin being the narrator, it's me, it was and still is an expression of my personal devotion to Odin, listening to it now, I can't believe it was me! The next track 'Voluspa' was also taken from the Edda's as is 'Sigdrifumal'. 'Invocation of the Gods', 'North Star' , Ragnarok and Nithing were written by me. The track 'Wotan' I took from: 'Also sprach Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzche and tampered with it a bit. The track I called Nietzche also is also taken from 'Zarasthustra.  I read it about 40 years ago time for a re read, I suppose. I've had great fun with this album through the decades since passed.  The actual recording was done  in a studio by just me after I had wriiten or adapted each track I turned up in the studio and after Invoking the Blessing of the Germanic gods I recited the lyrics, then Patrick got on the keyboard and just like that in one foul swoop put the music on, a perfect fit, a meeting of minds, it's now 21 years later and as an more learned occultist I can now fully appreciate the magic that went on. Incredible, without Patricks music these track would not have been what they are. I've been quite naughty as well on occasions I had the track 'Nithing' released in Austria sometime earlier in this current decade and had it named 'knighting' after a person who plagiarised me and E.T and N.P and as such sent it out into the world as an active curse, well deserved I may add. For this I take full occult responsability.  However the weregild has been paid by now and the curse should lose it's power as is stated inb the track itself, "This is thine fate, till weregild is paid" I don't know whether if any effect it had but it liberated me psychologically of the hate and depair of being plagiarised and so I could move on without my creativity being compromised.  When you are ripped off on a soul level as plagiariing does it takes the heart of you work and copies it into an emty vessel,there is only two causes of action left open to you:a)you forgive uncondionally or b)you settle the score, either one is healthy. what is very un healthy is to pretend to forgive because you haven't got the power to retaliate and also you don't want to be known as a woe worker, in that case it remains unresolved and it turns into a 'worm' in you soul making you ill. this is the case always when you have harm done by somone and there is no closure. I always force closure! and then I move on. 

This current edition comes in a digibox which is very beautiful. Including a photo of me and Patrick and boy do we look good! We even look a bit similar I only just noticed.

Fruits Of Yggdrasil

09-19-2009 20:00at  Camden Underworld
174 Camden High Street, London, London and South East NW1
Cost: 15-16

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. So now I have written Discovering Runes which I hope will be an entertaining read as well as being a vital reference book for everyone.  It is published by Regency House in UK and Chartwell Books in the USA. It is available in book stores and online with Amazon and several other websites. If sales go well there are plans to translate and distribute in several other languages including German, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

The book is 8x8 inches  (200x200mm) and 1 inch (25mm) thick, bound with a vinyl coated flexi cover (tougher than paperback, but not as stiff as a hardback). There are 250 glossy pages and  260 full colour illustrations.

In the introductory chapter dealing with the origins and development of the runes I have advanced some of my own ideas about the origin of the rune characters and the development of runic divination in ancient times

In the chapter about divination and casting methods I have expanded considerably on the subjects discussed on this website and augmented the rune meanings section to 112 pages. This allows for more thorough illustration and greater discussion of interpretation and associations for each rune. I have described the methods for several more rune spreads and random casting methods.

There are also chapters on the runic pendulum, bindrunes, Gandr magic, runic transcription, rune graphics, a key word index and a very thorough selected bibliography.

The discounted prices including packaging, shipping and tax are:
 

All copies of Discovering Runes supplied from this website will be first editions personally signed and dedicated by me. If you would like a special message above my signature, just write it in the "Other Information" box on the shopping cart and I will confirm your request before shipping the book

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My comments:

This book is very very beautuful. Runic wisdon aside it has the most marvellous photgraphs of nature and natural scenes. Even somone  who could  not read would enjoy it!

Needless to say that the rune knowledge contained therein is of the highest value.

Freya Aswynn

This site is dedicated to the Runes and the Master of Runes; Odin /Woden/Wodan I prefer the latter as this is His name in holland where I come from.  This site is meant to be educational and informative about the Runes and their workings.

I've had a website for many years now, but things happen to them and I had to ask someone to create a replacement. The last person to do this in a marvellous way was Oswald the runemaker, at the beginning of 2007 I joined the Runemaker Group and Bob completely redesigned the site.

There are many improvements and new features that I hope you will find both interesting and valuable.  The content of this site is currently being transferred to my Joomla site.  This is because my dear runebrother Bob has health issues I am and remain very grateful for his help with my site but as  my site was the most labour intensive one, we decided that's it's time I stand on my own cyberfeet.

I am now learning to be my own webmaster so any problems with downloads or payments email me: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Freya Aswynn