According to Norse mythology it was Odin, king of the gods, and god of wisdom and war, that gained knowledge of the runes. The alphabet is known as the futhark, after the first six letters of … The magic use of runes somewhat resembles the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs; the inscription reinforces the magic dimension of the object and the power of the incantation is all the stronger when it remains hidden from mortals.Whether engraved in stone, a piece of horn or leather, the historical and archaeological traces of the runes seem to favor short inscriptions. The runes were in use among the Germanic peoples from the 1st or 2nd century AD.
The spelling of runic symbols also favors an application for engraving on stone and other hard surfaces. Each archaeological discovery of an ancient funerary site in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and everywhere else in Europe can at any time upset the understanding of the Norse and Viking ways of life and allow to lift a little more the mystery of the runes.Some researchers were long convinced of the Greco-Latin origin of the runes. The talismanic and divinatory use of runes is however proven, as evidenced by magic or prophetic formulas that we have been able to find, in particular the famous stone of Björketop, which dates from the 7th century. Excluding Greek with Etruscan roots and Latin with Greek roots, it would seem that in reality the runes have mixed roots between Southern Europe (Etruscan alphabet) and Northern Europe, via a Germanic tribe with a language symbolic and magical heir to the Scandinavian pictograms. The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity. Odin, finder of the runes, along with the goddess Freya, was considered expert in the practice, and as we know the Norns used the runes to control fate.A story from the Norse sagas also points to the magical powers of the runes.
Legend says that the runes were the original source of fate and emerged from the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil the ‘Tree of Life’ and made their way up the trunk and along the branches of the tree to spread into the ‘Nine Worlds’ ( Link to norse-mythology.net for more … … Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription.
Nordic Runes Origins. It would therefore be thanks to the many commercial exchanges that took place in Europe during the Bronze Age that merged with the Etruscan alphabet and the sacred Nordic proto-symbols.The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity.
Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription. Thurisaz: (TH: Thorn or a Giant.) **The runes form an alphabet, the futhark.
He therefore knows the name, value, meaning and symbols of everything hidden and mysterious in the universe. Note as an aside that this is also the case for the Latin alphabet, which at the start is mainly capital, therefore more angular and adapted to the tools of the stonecutters and stone carvers of the Roman Empire.The Roman historian Tacitus relates in the 1st century the drawing of runes in his work "Germania", during which strips of hazel wood on which symbols are engraved are then thrown on a white sheet, then the oracle chooses 3 at random and interprets their meaning. It is therefore a multiverse, since according to the ancient Nordic peoples, the cosmos is contained within a central world tree, the Yggdrasil, which contains and links both these 9 independent worlds.
According to Norse mythology it was Odin, king of the gods, and god of wisdom and war, that gained knowledge of the runes. The alphabet is known as the futhark, after the first six letters of … The magic use of runes somewhat resembles the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs; the inscription reinforces the magic dimension of the object and the power of the incantation is all the stronger when it remains hidden from mortals.Whether engraved in stone, a piece of horn or leather, the historical and archaeological traces of the runes seem to favor short inscriptions. The runes were in use among the Germanic peoples from the 1st or 2nd century AD.
The spelling of runic symbols also favors an application for engraving on stone and other hard surfaces. Each archaeological discovery of an ancient funerary site in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and everywhere else in Europe can at any time upset the understanding of the Norse and Viking ways of life and allow to lift a little more the mystery of the runes.Some researchers were long convinced of the Greco-Latin origin of the runes. The talismanic and divinatory use of runes is however proven, as evidenced by magic or prophetic formulas that we have been able to find, in particular the famous stone of Björketop, which dates from the 7th century. Excluding Greek with Etruscan roots and Latin with Greek roots, it would seem that in reality the runes have mixed roots between Southern Europe (Etruscan alphabet) and Northern Europe, via a Germanic tribe with a language symbolic and magical heir to the Scandinavian pictograms. The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity. Odin, finder of the runes, along with the goddess Freya, was considered expert in the practice, and as we know the Norns used the runes to control fate.A story from the Norse sagas also points to the magical powers of the runes.
Legend says that the runes were the original source of fate and emerged from the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil the ‘Tree of Life’ and made their way up the trunk and along the branches of the tree to spread into the ‘Nine Worlds’ ( Link to norse-mythology.net for more … … Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription.
Nordic Runes Origins. It would therefore be thanks to the many commercial exchanges that took place in Europe during the Bronze Age that merged with the Etruscan alphabet and the sacred Nordic proto-symbols.The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity.
Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription. Thurisaz: (TH: Thorn or a Giant.) **The runes form an alphabet, the futhark.
He therefore knows the name, value, meaning and symbols of everything hidden and mysterious in the universe. Note as an aside that this is also the case for the Latin alphabet, which at the start is mainly capital, therefore more angular and adapted to the tools of the stonecutters and stone carvers of the Roman Empire.The Roman historian Tacitus relates in the 1st century the drawing of runes in his work "Germania", during which strips of hazel wood on which symbols are engraved are then thrown on a white sheet, then the oracle chooses 3 at random and interprets their meaning. It is therefore a multiverse, since according to the ancient Nordic peoples, the cosmos is contained within a central world tree, the Yggdrasil, which contains and links both these 9 independent worlds.
According to Norse mythology it was Odin, king of the gods, and god of wisdom and war, that gained knowledge of the runes. The alphabet is known as the futhark, after the first six letters of … The magic use of runes somewhat resembles the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs; the inscription reinforces the magic dimension of the object and the power of the incantation is all the stronger when it remains hidden from mortals.Whether engraved in stone, a piece of horn or leather, the historical and archaeological traces of the runes seem to favor short inscriptions. The runes were in use among the Germanic peoples from the 1st or 2nd century AD.
The spelling of runic symbols also favors an application for engraving on stone and other hard surfaces. Each archaeological discovery of an ancient funerary site in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and everywhere else in Europe can at any time upset the understanding of the Norse and Viking ways of life and allow to lift a little more the mystery of the runes.Some researchers were long convinced of the Greco-Latin origin of the runes. The talismanic and divinatory use of runes is however proven, as evidenced by magic or prophetic formulas that we have been able to find, in particular the famous stone of Björketop, which dates from the 7th century. Excluding Greek with Etruscan roots and Latin with Greek roots, it would seem that in reality the runes have mixed roots between Southern Europe (Etruscan alphabet) and Northern Europe, via a Germanic tribe with a language symbolic and magical heir to the Scandinavian pictograms. The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity. Odin, finder of the runes, along with the goddess Freya, was considered expert in the practice, and as we know the Norns used the runes to control fate.A story from the Norse sagas also points to the magical powers of the runes.
Legend says that the runes were the original source of fate and emerged from the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil the ‘Tree of Life’ and made their way up the trunk and along the branches of the tree to spread into the ‘Nine Worlds’ ( Link to norse-mythology.net for more … … Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription.
Nordic Runes Origins. It would therefore be thanks to the many commercial exchanges that took place in Europe during the Bronze Age that merged with the Etruscan alphabet and the sacred Nordic proto-symbols.The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity.
Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription. Thurisaz: (TH: Thorn or a Giant.) **The runes form an alphabet, the futhark.
He therefore knows the name, value, meaning and symbols of everything hidden and mysterious in the universe. Note as an aside that this is also the case for the Latin alphabet, which at the start is mainly capital, therefore more angular and adapted to the tools of the stonecutters and stone carvers of the Roman Empire.The Roman historian Tacitus relates in the 1st century the drawing of runes in his work "Germania", during which strips of hazel wood on which symbols are engraved are then thrown on a white sheet, then the oracle chooses 3 at random and interprets their meaning. It is therefore a multiverse, since according to the ancient Nordic peoples, the cosmos is contained within a central world tree, the Yggdrasil, which contains and links both these 9 independent worlds.
Whether in Old Irish ("rún": mystery, secret), in Old English ("runian": whisper), in Old Nordic ("run": mystery, secret), in Gothic ("rúna": secret, mysterious world), in Lithuanian ("runat": to speak), in modern German ("raunen": to whisper) or even in Egyptian ("ren": secret name), the persistence and the geographical extent of the word "rune", always with an almost identical or equivalent signifier, once again testifies to an ancestral practice which falls outside the historical field to join legends and founding myths. It represents new beginnings and “movable” wealth such as money and credit. This was a shorter alphabet of only 16 runic symbols, and there were three slightly different versions of the alphabet in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The origins of the runes, their deep meaning, their role in the everyday life of the Germanic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples or even the divinatory practices with which the runes were associated, are still the subject of research and divide the specialists who are passionate about runeology since the 19th century.
According to Norse mythology it was Odin, king of the gods, and god of wisdom and war, that gained knowledge of the runes. The alphabet is known as the futhark, after the first six letters of … The magic use of runes somewhat resembles the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs; the inscription reinforces the magic dimension of the object and the power of the incantation is all the stronger when it remains hidden from mortals.Whether engraved in stone, a piece of horn or leather, the historical and archaeological traces of the runes seem to favor short inscriptions. The runes were in use among the Germanic peoples from the 1st or 2nd century AD.
The spelling of runic symbols also favors an application for engraving on stone and other hard surfaces. Each archaeological discovery of an ancient funerary site in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and everywhere else in Europe can at any time upset the understanding of the Norse and Viking ways of life and allow to lift a little more the mystery of the runes.Some researchers were long convinced of the Greco-Latin origin of the runes. The talismanic and divinatory use of runes is however proven, as evidenced by magic or prophetic formulas that we have been able to find, in particular the famous stone of Björketop, which dates from the 7th century. Excluding Greek with Etruscan roots and Latin with Greek roots, it would seem that in reality the runes have mixed roots between Southern Europe (Etruscan alphabet) and Northern Europe, via a Germanic tribe with a language symbolic and magical heir to the Scandinavian pictograms. The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity. Odin, finder of the runes, along with the goddess Freya, was considered expert in the practice, and as we know the Norns used the runes to control fate.A story from the Norse sagas also points to the magical powers of the runes.
Legend says that the runes were the original source of fate and emerged from the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil the ‘Tree of Life’ and made their way up the trunk and along the branches of the tree to spread into the ‘Nine Worlds’ ( Link to norse-mythology.net for more … … Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription.
Nordic Runes Origins. It would therefore be thanks to the many commercial exchanges that took place in Europe during the Bronze Age that merged with the Etruscan alphabet and the sacred Nordic proto-symbols.The magic and divinatory function of the runes rests, in addition to the hidden meaning of the runic symbols which have not revealed all their secrets to date, on Norse mythology, that is to say the ancient Nordic religion before it got supplanted by Christianity.
Each runic character is the transcription of a sound and a phoneme making it possible to write words and sentences, in the same way as the Greek or Latin alphabet.Without wishing to caricature the runeologists in two schools, it is clear that two currents oppose each other: on the one hand those who believe in an almost systematic mystical-magic symbolism of the uses of the runes and on the other the rationalists, for whom the runic alphabet had an exclusive practical use of literal transcription. Thurisaz: (TH: Thorn or a Giant.) **The runes form an alphabet, the futhark.
He therefore knows the name, value, meaning and symbols of everything hidden and mysterious in the universe. Note as an aside that this is also the case for the Latin alphabet, which at the start is mainly capital, therefore more angular and adapted to the tools of the stonecutters and stone carvers of the Roman Empire.The Roman historian Tacitus relates in the 1st century the drawing of runes in his work "Germania", during which strips of hazel wood on which symbols are engraved are then thrown on a white sheet, then the oracle chooses 3 at random and interprets their meaning. It is therefore a multiverse, since according to the ancient Nordic peoples, the cosmos is contained within a central world tree, the Yggdrasil, which contains and links both these 9 independent worlds.
