![]() | The Rune Primer: A Down to Earth Guide to the Runes by Sweyn Plowright
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $15.25 It contains an accurate introduction to the runes. Translations of the original rune poems. A review of various popular esoteric authors. Exposes recent myths and misconceptions about the runes, and more. This book is the only one to honestly lift the lid on the state of esoteric runology today.
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![]() | Rudiments of Runelore by Stephen Pollington
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $7.99 A short basic introduction to runes that sticks to verified academic facts, yet contains useful esoteric material.
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![]() | Runes (Reading the Past, Vol 4) by R. I. Page
Buy new: $12.78 / Used from: $3.50 An excellent, short, but very academic introduction to runes. No esoteric content, but useful for verifying historical claims made in other books.
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![]() | Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes by R.I. Page
Buy new: $47.95 / Used from: $43.05 Essays on real inscriptions by a foremost researcher. Again, no esoterica, but great historical information.
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![]() | Runic Amulets and Magic Objects by Mindy MacLeod
Buy new: $65.00 / Used from: $82.62 The only genuine survey of runic magical inscriptions and objects. Essential reading for the serious.
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![]() | Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin Robinson
Buy new: $21.80 / Used from: $11.73 A useful survey of the languages that were associated with runes. Fairly heavy going linguistics, but important for more advanced rune studies.
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![]() | Our Troth: History and Lore (Volume 1) by Kveldulf Gundarsson
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $52.64 A good detailed look at Northern mythology and its role in modern Asatru.
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![]() | Our Troth: Living the Troth (Volume 2) by Kveldulf Gundarsson
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $18.99 Practical applications of Northern Lore.
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![]() | Voluspa: Seidhr as Wyrd Consciousness by Yngona Desmond
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $42.02 A genuine, practical, and well researched look into the enigmatic "prophesy of the seeress".
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![]() | Elves, Wights, and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry: Vol. I (v. 1) by Kveldulf Gundarsson
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $17.60 A detailed guide to Northern entities.
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![]() | Complete Illustrated Guide to Runes by Nigel Pennick
Buy used from: $5.00 A quality glossy production, interesting, and well researched. A good tour of runic lore, if you ignore the sections on rune yoga and other New Age nonsense.
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![]() | The Book of Runes: A Handbook for the Use of an Ancient Oracle: The Viking Runes with Stones: 10th Anniversary Edition by Ralph H. Blum
Buy used from: $4.88 Example of Fluffy. Often hailed the first & worst of the New-Age manuals. No Vikings consulted here!
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![]() | Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic by Edred Thorsson
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.97 Quite academic but very speculative. Sometimes neglects to separate fact from his own imagination. The rather silly rune postures are recycled from the Armanen system.
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![]() | Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic by Diana L Paxson
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.87 Ecclectic. Better researched than most, and worth a read, but a little too reliant on the inventive modern writers.
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![]() | The Runes Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Learning the Wisdom of the Staves by Leon D. Wild
Buy used from: $4.02 A self help book with some historical research. OK apart from the mixing of Thorsson's neo-satanic "Odian" system with amateur psychology.
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![]() | A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magic (Llewellyn's New Age) by Lisa Peschel
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.42 A typical new age manual. A compilation of the speculations of other New-Age writers. Not much research into the original sources. For many New-Agers, who measure a book's worth in dollars per kilogram, this one will seem like good value.
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![]() | The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Runes by Sirona Knight
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.99 A shocking piece of out-of-context copying of other authors' work. No acknowledgements or references. Whole paragraphs, barely disguised, copied & pasted from different authors, systems, & contexts jumbled together.
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