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An Introduction to English Runes
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| #870679 in Books | BOYE6 | 2006-05-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.56 x6.14l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Page is not easy reading|By Ron Spolar|This author validates nearly everything he says. Clearly this world leading expert on runes considers their primarily use to have been as an alphabet. Page is very cautious concerning the magical use of runes but does define what evidence there is. Clearly he is not a fan of Thorsson and his opinion of Edred Thorsson is grim. This is||Remains the only book-length study providing a comprehensive and scholarly guide to the Anglo-Saxon use of runes. The new edition has been substantially updated and expanded...No serious library of Anglo-Saxon studies should be without it. --Journal of English
Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and val...
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