Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #398087 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 129 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781578631360
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

A great resource!
A great book for anyone whishing to learn more about the runes. Offers a good starting point for beginners and also a great resource for the more advanced runester. I have all three of Thorsson's books in this series (Futhark, Runelore & the Well of Wyrd) together they are a fantastic resource and a great spring-board to the more advanced studies.

Highly recommend it!

Runecaster's Handbook: The Well of Wyrd
Edred Thorsson in my opinion is the best author for anything to do with Runes or Northern culture and magic. I have been studying Runes and Northern culture for 10 or so years now and his books are the only ones I have come accorss that strip things back to the beginning. The information in his books is probably the most accurate and truthful information you will get anywhere. I recommend his books to any and all, especially those starting out with this kind of thing as there are too many books out there to do with Runes etc, which are vague and misleading. Also there are too many books with Christian and new age (I Ching etc) twists which don't truthfully represent the Runes at all. Edred does!

The weakest of the series
Runecasters Handbook is part of a three part series that Thorsson wrote as an introduction to the Rune Gild organization which he created. This book is by far the weakest addition to that series.

As usual, Thorsson provides a solid traditionalist view on the runes and intertwines a lot of mythology and lore into both the descriptions of the runes and his methods of castings. What I found to be the problem with this book is that because it draws so heavily on the other books in the series, Runelore and Futhark, there is not as much new information presented in this volume as I had hoped for. Both other books were chock-full of historical research and significance, while this one was primarily a rehashing of information which was covered before.

If you do not have a solid amount of background knowledge concerning northern mythology, this book is probably too advanced for you. Thorsson presumes a great deal of knowledge in this volume, in particular, knowledge of the nine worlds and of the roles of the Norns and the world tree.

Overall a decent book, but if you are familiar with Thorsson's other works, you can skip this one.