Understanding Elder Futhark Runes

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Old Norse, rún meant secret, secret lore, magical signs or wisdom

Gothic rúna meant mysterium, secret.

Old English rún meant mystery or secret council.

Old Saxon and Old High German all rúna meant mystery or secret.

Source: Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic

There are various purposes for the implementation of Runes, protection, talismanic, runagaldrar (incantations), stadhagaldr (posture incantation), and divination. However, I must allude to you that the importance of Runes in magical works regarding liberation, love, protection, victory and to grow in wisdom cannot be understated.

Georg von Rosen Oden som vandringsman. 1885. Odin the WandererMythology teaches us that Odin, husband of the goddess Frigg, is the god of art, culture, war, wisdom, and as overseer of the afterlife location Valhalla, god of the dead too.

Odin is acknowledged as creator and supreme deity of both the cosmos and humans, thereby associated with battle, death, frenzy, the gallows, healing, knowledge, poetry, royalty, sorcery, and the Runic alphabet.

 

 

 

 

 

Mythology further teaches that Odin self-sacrificed himself for wisdom. He stabbed his side with a spear then crucified himself from an Ash tree for 9 days. During this time period he became the first initiate into the runic mysteries as he received the original Runic wisdom. Thereafter the Norse communicated these teachings to others through spoken word. As there is much written about the Runes, I will make a bold attempt to bring some light to what I recall was the most pertinent questions when I was first introduced to these magical stones.