Recommended Reading List

RUNES

Academic Works:

• A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions by E.H. Antonsen. Tubingen, 1975
• Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples by Bruce Dickins. Cambridge, 1915.
• Runes by R.W.V. Elliott. Manchester University Press, Manchester; 1989.
• 'Runes, Yews and Magic'; R.W.V. Elliott. Speculum XXXII, 1957
• 'Runes and Runic Inscriptions'; James E. Knirk et al. Medieval Scandinavia, an Encylopedia; Garland Publishing, 1993
• 'The Runes of Bergen; Voices from the Middle Ages'; Aslak Liestol. Minnesota History, vol. 40, no. 2, 1966
• 'Runic and Mediterranian Epigraphy'; Richard L. Morris. Odense University Press, 1988
• An Introduction to English Runes by R.I. Page. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London; 1973.
• 'A Review of the Runic Material'; Karin Fjellhammer Seim. The Bryggen Papers, supl. series no.2, 1988

Modern Interpretive Works:

• Leaves of Yggdrasil by Freya Aswynn. Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, MN; 1992
• Teutonic Magic by Kvedulf Gundarsson. Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, MN; 1990
• A Practical Guide to the Runes by Lisa Peschel. Llewellyn Publications, St.Paul, MN; 1989.
• Raido: the Runic Journey by Jennifer Smith. Tara Hill Designs, Milton, ON; 1994
• Futhark: A Handbook of Runic Magic by Edred Thorsson. Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, ME; 1984

NORTHERN EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGY, HISTORY AND CULTURE

• The Well and The Tree by Paul Bauschatz. Johnathan Cape Ltd., London; 1982
• Gods and Heroes from Viking Mythology by Brian Branston. Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto; 1986.
• Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (and many others) by H.R.Ellis Davidson. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK; 1981.
• Egil's Saga, translation by Christine Fell. J.M. Dent, London, 1975
• The Vikings by James Graham-Campbell and Dafydd Kidd. British Museum Publications, London; 1980.
• Tacitus on Britain and Germany, translation by H. Mattingly. Penguin Books, London, 1948
• Edda by Snorri Sturluson (trans. Anthony Faulkes). J.M. Dent, London, 1987
• The Masks of Odin; Wisdom of the Ancient Norse, translation by Elsa-Brita Titchenell. Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, CA; 1985.

GENERAL

• Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc., Don Mills, ON; 1990.
• Reading the Past: Etruscan by Larissa Bonfante. University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1990
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Princeton University Press, Princeton; 1949.
• Historical Atlas of World Mythology by Joseph Campbell. Harper & Row, New York; 1988.
• The Sacred Yew by Anand Chetan and Diana Brueton. Penguin Books, London; 1994
• The Alphabetic Labyrinth by Johanna Drucker. Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London; 1995
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 1972
• The Occult Roots of Naziism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, UK; 1985.
• The Herb Book by John Lust. Bantam Books, Toronto, Ont.; 1980.

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