Credits

The texts for these pages were scanned from the book outlined below. Many thanks to Ralph Blum for writing it. Details on how to buy his book or a set of physical runes are also included below. Thanks to my friend Sara for the loan of the Book, a set of Runes and for the inspiration. This is a work in progress when I find the time I hope to add a Three Runes Spread. If you spot any typos please tell me.

Peter Crowley

The BOOK of RUNES

A Handbook for Use of
an Ancient Oracle:
The Viking Runes

Commentary by
Ralph Blum

ISBN 0-312-00729-9

THE RUNEWORKS

Using the Viking Runes has been, for many people, an exciting adventure of self-discovery. We would be most interested in hearing of your experiences With the Runes. Please feel encouraged to write to us at The RuneWorks.

We now need a way to establish better contact with each other and thereby stimulate further mutual growth along the path of the Spiritual Warrior. To this end, we publish a quarterly newsletter, The New Oracle News & Rune Digest. The newsletter serves as a forum for all of us to share our experiences with the Vikings Runes. It contains information about other oracular traditions, innovations in Rune casting techniques, and new aspects of Rune play discovered by those who us the Oracle. We would like to quote from your letters if you wish your name withheld, please let us know.

If you have difficulty finding Rune Play or The Book of Runes, or prefer to purchase additional copies (with or without stones) directly through us, please mail you inquiries to The RuneWorks.

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P.O. Box 24084
Los Angeles, CA 90024

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ralph Blum received his degree in Russian studies at Harvard. Following a period in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar, he returned to Harvard, where he did graduate work in anthropology with grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Encountering the Runes by chance while doing research in England, he subsequently explored their origins and reinterpreted their meanings in terms ap- propriate for our time. He is an anthropologist, writer, publisher and storyteller and has been working with the Viking Runes as a tool for self-counseling since 1978.

He makes his home in Malibu, California.

Silver cup from a royal grave. Jelling,
Jutland, in Denmark; tenth century.

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