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 - BONUS INTERVIEW - Runes in the Modern Era (with Benjamin Weber) (114:03)
- General Course Curriculum
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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