High-level
I have spent hundreds of hours making this course as thorough and high-level as possible. It will point you to all the most important sources for our knowledge and interpretation of the runes, allowing you to begin your own journey of reflection and discovery.
Animist
We will be considering runes from an animist perspective - runes as symbols of animacy, with inherent "megin" - much more than just a system of writing.
Academic
This information is presented to you with the same high academic standard that I always strive to uphold, whether I am presenting research in a university context, or communicating as a public intellectual.
The Curriculum
- Introduction (3:54)
- 1 - What Are Runes? (33:17)
- 2 - Are Runes Magic? (36:42)
- 3 - Inscription Examples (36:14)
- 4 - Runes as Secrets (32:39)
- 5 - Runes for Divination (37:03)
- 6 - Runestones (23:16)
- 7 - Runes on Amulets (39:42)
- 8 - Runes as Patterns of Creation (56:59)
- 9 - Rune Names and Rune Poems (74:36)
- 10 - INTERVIEW - Runes in the Modern Era (with Benjamin Weber) (114:03)
- 11 - Rune Calendar (38:28)
- EXTRA I - Rune Magic of the Sigrdrivamál (with Benjamin Weber)
- EXTRA II - Rune Magic of the Hávamál (with Benjamin Weber)
- EXTRA III - Runes in Modernity: Academia, New Age & The Fourth Wave (Collab w/ Esoterica)
- General Course Curriculum
Kristina took the course and wrote:
I just wanted to say that I have recently finished the Animacy of Runes course and that it was really amazing. I appreciate first and foremost the academic honesty and humbleness, the structure of the course and the fact that it is accessible to people both well-versed in academic discourse and those who are not maybe particularly used to it; also the fact that it lays a really nice foundation for beginners in terms of where to start with their journey. I also appreciated the emphasis on culture and tradition being dynamic and not set in stone, and that we also have the right to participate in it (we always do) and not just passively admire it as some relic from the past. Of course, the animist/relational aspect makes it so much better. As someone who spent quite a bit of time at the university, I think this encompasses both academic integrity and wider accessibility to knowledge.
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Historian of Religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.
Rune has lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has had Nordic religion as a strong field of interest.
Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic religion both in terms of scholarship, but also as a reservoir of cultural knowledge for environmental activism and sustainability sensitization.
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