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In the wake of a 1984 dissertation on "Runes and Magic", Stephen Flowers published a series of books under the pen-name "Edred Thorsson" which detailed his own original method of runic divination and magic, "odianism", [16] which he said was loosely based on historical sources and modern European hermeticism. These books were:
They generally contained practical information or memorials instead of magic or mythic stories. [1] The body of runic inscriptions falls into the three categories of Elder Futhark (some 350 items, dating to between the 2nd and 8th centuries AD), Anglo-Frisian Futhorc (some 100 items, 5th to 11th centuries) and Younger Futhark (close to 6,000 ...
Armanen runes and their transcriptions. Armanen runes (or Armanen Futharkh) are 18 pseudo-runes, inspired by the historic Younger Futhark runes, invented by Austrian mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List during a state of temporary blindness in 1902, and described in his Das Geheimnis der Runen ("The Secret of the Runes"), published as a periodical article in 1906, and as a ...
The "Halfdan inscription" - 2014 Transcription of the recognizable Halfdan runes The first runic inscription was discovered in 1964 on a parapet on the top floor of the southern gallery, and the discovery was published by Elisabeth Svärdström in "Runorna i Hagia Sofia", Fornvännen 65 (1970), 247–49.
See also Runic magic § Historical evidence. This category is for historical runic inscriptions with magical or religious inscriptions. For modern systems see Category:Runes in Germanic mysticism .
Futhorc are Anglo-Saxon runes which were used to write Old English. The most notable of the rings are the Bramham Moor Ring , found in the 18th century, and the Kingmoor Ring , found 1817, inscribed with a nearly identical magical runic formula read as
The symbols represent the runes Ansuz, Laguz, and Uruz. The origin and meaning of the word are matters of dispute, though a general agreement exists among scholars that the word represents an instance of historical runic magic or is a metaphor (or metonym) for it. [1] It is the most common of the early runic charm words. [2]
The Uthark theory about the runes holds that the rune row is a cipher, and that one can understand its meaning by placing the first rune, "F", last, resulting in an ”Uthark” instead of the traditional "Futhark" order. [1] It originated in the 1930s with the work of philologist Sigurd Agrell (1881–1937), a professor at Lund University, Sweden.