This complete guide shows you how to: make your own runes; load the rune with harmonious power; prepare the optimum setting for a rune reading. Includes general rune meanings, divination tables, the positive and negative aspects of each rune, itslinguistic component and phonetic value, runic layouts, and sample readings. By the author of the best-selling, Futhark: Handbook of Rune Magic.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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The weakest of the series,
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This review is from: Runecaster's Handbook: The Well of Wyrd (Paperback)
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.
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Runecaster's Handbook: The Well of Wyrd,
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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!
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A great resource!,
This review is from: Runecaster's Handbook: The Well of Wyrd (Paperback)
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!
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THE WORD "RUNE" SIMPLY MEANS " mystery" or "secret." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
holy stead, runic divination, runic tradition, rune name, rune poems, rune magic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THE WORD "RUNE" SIMPLY MEANS " mystery" or "secret." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
holy stead, runic divination, runic tradition, rune name, rune poems, rune magic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Handbook of Esoteric Runology, Elder Futhark, Rune Games New!
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- The Poetic Edda by Lee M. Hollander on page 108, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology by Edred Thorsson on page 4, page 13, and Back Matter
- Rune Games by Marijane Osborn on page 7, page 8, and Back Matter
- The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics) by Jane P. Gardner on page 6, and Back Matter
- The book of runes by Ralph Blum on page 8, and Back Matter
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