Revival of the Runes: The Modern Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Germanic Runes - Stephen E. Flowers Ph.D. 2021

Revival of the Runes: The Modern Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Germanic Runes - Stephen E. Flowers Ph.D. 2021

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

The Runic Tradition—An Overview

The Older Futhark

The Anglo-Frisian Futhorc

The Younger Futhark

Esoteric Dimensions of The Runic Tradition

The Decline of the Tradition

From the Renaissance to the Baroque

The Brothers Magnus

The Brothers Petri

The Birth of Modern Runology

Johannes Bureus and The Adulruna

The Life of Johan Bure

Bure’S Concept of Adulruna

Bure’s Runology

Bure’s Interpretation of The Runestaves

The Esoteric Runology of Bureus’S Adulrunor

Adulruna: The Priestly Office

Adulrunor And The Secret Calculation of Time

The Three Crowns

The Science of Adulruna

Olaus Wormius

Runic Antiquities in Sweden After Bureus

Olof Rudbeck

The Enlightenment

Johan Göransson

Romanticism

The Beginnings of Scientific Runology and Neo-Romanticism

The Turbulent Dawn of a New Germanic Rebirth

The Armanen Movement

The Esoteric Revival After List

Runology in the Age of the Third Reich

Runology in Germany

Partisan Runology Within The Nsdap

The Ahnenerbe

Runology Outside Nazi Germany

The Runic Renewal

Postwar Scientific Runology

The Rise of Contemporary Scientific Runology and the Re-Emergence of the Rune-Gild

Edred Thorsson and The Roots of The Rune-Gild

The Runes in Germany Today

Karl Hans Welz and The Knights of Runes

Miguel Serrano

The First Runic Wave

Another Revival of The Runes in Sweden

The Second Runic Wave

The Age of The Internet and The Revival of The Armanen Runes

The Reawakening of The Rune-Gild

An Integral Runology for the Future

General Characteristics of An Integral Runology

Appendix

Chronology of the Runic Revival

Runic Origins of the “Peace Sign”

Footnotes

Bibliography