The Department will offer a Beginners course and this will cover all the basic ground necessary for real inner work to begin. Remember the famous three little piggies and how important it is to build with stone—no-one will ever manage to huff and puff and blow a Rune-Master’s house down.

Further courses will teach the tools of advanced Runelore necessary for sorcery and other technical aspects of traditional European magic. Where you end up is in your own hands.

Selected Reading List

Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic, Edred Thorsson, Samuel Weiser, 1985
Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, Edred Thorsson, Samuel Weiser, 1987
Runenkunde, Klaus Düwel, Sammlung Metzler, 2001
Runes and Their Origin: Denmark and Elsewhere, Aarhus University Press, 1981
The Poetic Edda, Lee M. Hollander,University of Texas Press, 1994
Edda, Snorri Sturluson (trans. Anthony Faulkes), Everyman, 1987 (Prose Edda not as above)
Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, Jan de Vries, Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1970
Myth and Religion of the North, E.O.G. Turville-Petre, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1964
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, H.R. Ellis Davidson, Penguin, 1990
Egil’s Saga, Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards (trans.), Penguin, 1978
Njal’s Saga, Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (trans.), Penguin, 1977
Hrafnkel’s Saga and Other Stories, Hermann Pálsson (trans.), Penguin, 1980
Laxdaela Saga, Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (trans.), Penguin, 1978
Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas, Anthony Faulkes (trans.), Everyman, 2001
Eyrbyggja Saga, Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards (trans.), Penguin, 2006
Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Olafr Tryggvason, Olafur Halldorsson, Viking Society for Northern Research, 2000
The Agricola and the Germania, Cornelius Tacitus, Penguin, 1980