One of my favorite videos you've made. Good topic. It's been a passion pursuit of mine since a wee lad to memorize the runes and their meaning. Very fascinating and misunderstood meaning and script.
Personally I feel bind runes were sometimes used for magic. But I also feel there was little if any standardization to the practice. So each carver essentially made up their own binds & what meaning/effect it was to have. If true this also would make deciphering someone's bind rune essentially impossible & this the bind rune's magic couldn't be undone.
I totally agree, in no way am I an expert in runes but I do have an understanding, and hope to exspand my knowledge. The recent popularity in "Bind Runes" and the meanings of the new Runes I don't trust. I have a similar view that the old Pagan Runes were at times written in short hand or abbreviation, or a type of rune like sigil, as a sigil is very personal only the practitioner will truly know what it means. Thankyou for your content.
Reading a fantastic book on Icelandic grimoires and bind runes. I am conflicted about using them as the grimoire warns around impact, etc, if the individual believes in that, etc. So unless i know enough about something, i avoid meddling. This video as usual is very informative . Thank you
Just a funny thought. It's runic cursive. At least that's what popped in my head when did you the "they can't read it anyway" bit. I loved this thank you
I discovered Bind Runes in a book on Northern Magic and always thought 'this is just a way of carving someone's initials.' Apart from Rune Reading I always thought of Runes as a way of spelling, not necessarily symbols. But what I'm learning lately is the magical use of these things came 2 centuries after the Viking Age. Hell, I got a Rune Binding decoration a good friend gave me, it is much treasured and is displayed in my room.
The 4 "A" runes on the stave are used to call on Odin, as a blessing or a protection for a follower of Odin. The "A" rune being the 4th rune of the Elder Futhark and meaning God or Mouth.
4:58 i was about to say, my theory of bind runes is that they were the labels for their time. you dont see a full description on a label you see what you need to see to to understand what you need to know.
3:07 and here we see one of the first recorded crossword puzzle’s. It was said that one of the ways odin predicted the future was to turn the wood of yggdrasil into paper and use it to make a news paper with prophecies in the form of articles. These news papers would contain crossword puzzle’s like this one for odin to test the wisdom he had gathered on his travels.
"Custom bindrunes" is a business model lol. Also it's weird that you mentioned the Undley bracteate. I recently bought a replica (silver rather than gold), and now I keep seeing references to it.
I think bindrunes were sometimes used as like.. a way to put a meaning into a compact "spell" sort of. Perhaps not out of actual magic belief, but more like the way your grandma pressed some money into your hand to buy some candy, when you were little. A well meaning gesture. So yes i suppose a wedding gift or whatever could have bindrunes into it to give the object meaning. Like an abreviation of the couples names, or their first letters in combination with a rune that belongs to a deity, for specific wishes. Perhaps like this.
@Norse Magic and Belief Excellent video, thank you for posting this! Believe it or not the majority of my work includes all manner of custom bind runes, in fact this fad is so prevalent that if I carve a totem without them it seems like the customer is put off and feels they have been ripped off somehow. i believe the consumer perspective is that they get more "bang for their buck" if they combine various glyphs into one "super glyph". For my work there is only so much physical space available to carve anything, and if you only put "one rune" in that spot it had better be a good one, and one that clearly fits the overall theme*! 😳😬💁 *Theme... Acknowledging that most magical paths use various forms of psychological entrainment, and runes as an ancient language glyph/system is clearly at the top of the list (at least for public recognized systems), and if not too cluttered, to create a simple bind rune certainly gives you more "content" per glyph. .... I am 62 and though my bloodline is Norse, Pictish, Welsh and Irish I have since childhood (and with no ones prompting) drawn runes and various glyphs for magical purposes... it's something that is inherent and driven within me. The ancient languages had meanings for each letter, and the letters made a constructed meaning, which later became a word, and later became something completely different than the meaning of the letters, and the power of the natural magic has completely dissipated and is no more. Perhaps this is why this new "bind rune" generation is so fascinated with all of these crazy glyphs... maybe they are inherently trying to recreate something that is lost and rebuilt it without clearly knowing they are doing so...💁 Thank you again for your many wonderful and excellent videos and wealth of knowledge.
What is lost here is the ORLOG (web of destiny / URD / WYRD) from which all the runes are 'cut'. The futharks all drew from the Norse 'sacred geo' of the time(less)
Nicely said. Except in a few instances, bindrunes are historically usually a space-saving device. The same applies to some single runes, such as "maður". Thanks for mentioning my book in your references (second one down).
People tend to think of Norse magic and Icelandic magic as the same thing, and you also multiple uses of bind runes to further confuse people who are new to the subject. The stave type bind runes derived largely from the Keys of Solomon, if I remember correctly, and later gained use in sigil magic. It's interesting to see that there was a tendency to paganize the Judeo-Christian grimoires. Although many of those grimoire concepts originally came from the Persian and Greco-Egyptian sources, so it's not the first time the material was readopted. I have no explanation for the modern pseudo-magical kind of bind runes though. It just seems like misunderstood information passed along the internet. The first time I saw them was over ten years ago on a Swedish jewelry website.
I found a book written by Edred Thorsson, but I haven't read it as I couldn't find anything about the author, but seeing you have him as one of your recommended titles, maybe it is about time I did so.
Precisely. Or the powerful nordic bind-bókstafir: å < ꜵ < ao ä < æ < ae ö < ø < œ < oe One needs to be very careful when writing out those, or they shallt bring misfortune and ruin thine harvests, or something.
the tripple tyr rune could be the equivilant of the tridentis representing among many things the past, present and future and by Tyr granting one key to victory in all three dimentions of creation. The number three is also important in all religions. Almost alwyas in one way or the other representing wholeness
You have an amazing and beautiful country . I would love to visit some day. We’re glad you’re here in the USA as well and Inhave learned a tremendous about from you !! Hail to you sir 🍺
you give all us norse/germanic men wisdom and courage of our ancestors! which now is giving me more and more confidence to spit game at every hottie I see. I cherish all women, but damn is out hard to find the right one for the right scenario.. me personally im burnt out on relationships, I just need that 10/10 viking/scythian queen (s)x3 to lead me to my bed chambers 4 days out of the week and id be happy.. and the only way to do that is to throw all the lines out there even if you lose a battle.. you live to continue the war and eventually god willing ill find my 3 queens be whatever ethnicity instead of money grubbing fast-food eating booster jabbing two faced trolls.. I like big troll butts and I can not lie
Keep the great stuff going. Runes are definitely plagued by misinformation and cringe. For me, and my use with the runes, it's quite personal. I even hesitate sometimes to perform a reading with/on my wife. Nothing really bad, just that she really just thinks they are cool, a face value appreciation if that makes sense. And I liked what you said in a previous video, "make your own!" Yes!
I like the idea regardless of accuracy, I want a bind rune tattoo purely for me so no one knows but it's got a hidden message. Just something unique as remembrance
There was a bracteate found with bind runes which implied magical purposes, i believe it was from the 5th century, not the new find with Odins Man, I think the Undley one
As with any language, I question what was the inspiration for the design. What instrument of form does it model itself after? The lines and curves of a tree or the shape of bones, for example? Is it a conscious expression of an unconscious or not easily observable force such as electrical energy? Without the primary source of reference, it is challenging to understand the original intent of a crafted communication form. 5:33 - its symbolic of compression technology which is an essential element of nature:
I've tried to explain this to people many times yet they try and use examples from long after the christianization to point to magical uses of bind runes. Or looking at spell inscriptions that use them as evidence of the bindrune itself being magical. Hel there are some examples from the viking age and earlier of rune staves, very similar to ogham, yet those are still inscriptions and though sometimes they are spells that's not the same thing as the "Binderunes" people think of. Magical inscriptions don't always even use bindrunes.
Your first two book recommendations I totally agree with, but I would caution anyone concerning flowers/thorsson, same guy by the way. Just do a little research and you will understand my misgivings on this man.
I have a question that i figure you are the right guy to ask. I've been researching the relation between different cultures, and how the names of many gods came from one original indo-european word, which then shifted as language developed; Indo-European Dyēus became Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, and Germanic Tiwaz (Tyr). My question is how tyr shifted from the God of the Sky and Chief God, to the God of War, and how odin became seen as the chief god rather than the original, Tyr?
I believe that Teiwaz was the original Chief God / Creator God. The great creator god was often in many cultures the god of law and justice. Odin means "the raging one" symbolizes ecstasy. When the Germanic tribes came into a long period of fighting with the Roman Empire, I believe that they sought need to prioritize Odin over Tyr since they needed the war spirit more than law/justice. And by the time when Christian scholars started to write about Germanic religion, Odin had overshadowed Tyr. This is just my opinion tho :)
Very interesting, I'm "recognizing" the runes, after keeping Edred Thorsson's book for a long time without reading it. But I need to believe that everything has its time... How can we explain what we cannot see or hear? Thanks! 😉
If I understand you correctly bind ruins are not necessarily in line, like OGAM which is usually written in the corner of a stone. They could possibly be a postscript?
Intention or context is everything. That's why something should be shared with different experts. Human history always needs to be preserved by our society.
The only bindrune I've ever made was FYR. Merging the AngloSaxon word for fire. Simply because I put my staff in a fire lol It also kinda looks cool in AngloSaxon futhorc.
I have a theory on the gibberish runes we see such as the kragehul. is it possible that its music written down how we would hear it. Some of it spoken sounds like it has no meaning but to me theres a sense of rythem to the way the words flow. If the runes are magic would it by somthing maybe that would be played on a drum or hummed or a style of throat singing that we dint understand?
Very interesting. Personally I don't dabble with rune too much! I don't want to mess with things I don't fully understand; and I don't really trust anyone these days.
I can agree that the popularity of bind runes today are not reflective of their use in ancient pagan religion. I might suggest though, that bind runes (if they were used often) were more personal and probably used rarely, as you mentioned, to maybe put a lot of meaning onto a little bit of space, like a talisman or a stone to be carried or worn by a person. I have no proof of this, it is only an opinion of mine based mostly on the idea that the absence of evidence does not necessarily equate to the evidence of absence. I might go farther and say that even if you are completely correct, that would not detract from an evolution of a faith in modern times to "use old technology in a new way." So, while I'm willing to accept that bind runes may not have been a staple of ancient pagans, I would posit that the concept of bind runes could be utilized appropriately today through proper knowledge of the runes as well as proper direction of intention by the user. Your points were very good and you presented well. Thank you for doing so much research and speaking from a place of knowledge about these things.
You tell us that you like the Bronz age in Norway best. Is this where the Norse learned to do the intricate metal work and engraving that we see from the Viking era?
Hello, just a quick question please, do you know why the runes were dropped in favor of latin alphabet? Alphabet evolution: Egyptian hieroglyphs -> Proto Sinai (Egypt writing system) -> Phoenician(modern Lebanon) -> Greek alphabet (added vowels - Cyrillic alphabet ) -> Latin -> Modern European languages but it started in Egypt it seems. Europe is linked to Egypt. Why were runes dropped in nordic countries/Germany in favor of Egyptian writing, do you know?
Bindrunes are used as sigils in old Germanic magic. I've had varying success with them, but since they are language dependant, you'd damn well better know what you're asking for, and who you're asking it from.
Not everything from the past is apropos for the present. ❤😊❤. I no longer drive stick shift. I drive automatic transmissions. And I have power windows not crank handles. So is the case with archaic practices.
Talking about B***s""" how about a video about the use of incense, are there any historical records of incense being used? So much bull online about white sage etc it would be great to hear your perspective. Great video as always.
there's no difference between a bind rune and writing two lowercase t's and using 1 line to cross them both runes were used for magical purposes, but any and all writing and languages were used for magical purposes the romanticization of runes is so cute
Yeah Denmark. My mom sent me to Denmark for a like 2 months when I was 12 with her friend. It was like maybe 87 or 88 ish. Do you know a town if you said it in English it would sound like Holtbek I that’s the word I remember but I can’t find it on a map. So maybe I’m not remembering it right. The little mermaid statue is there. I met James Darren and his wife Evy Daren they were old movie stars from a long time ago because that was my mom’s friends aunt and uncle and the aunt was from there their last name was jenson. Then I went to Copenhagen and saw all the things there and went tivoli I remember a lot of the things like that spiral staircase around that tall like tower thing and everything was copper. And all the dairy stuff like yoghurt and ice cream there’s no comparison I’ve tried to find out why but haven’t even heard anyone mention it. If we could have that stuff shipped over here or figure out how to make it like that you’d make a killing nobody would go anywhere else for ice cream. And they have a lot of good food and that bread, it’s black. It was hard to get used to but I finally did and I’ll bet that’s so much more healthy but I doubt you can even buy the ingredients to make it here. Anyway, I was too young then and homesick, but I wish I could go again now. Oh and we went to that old village with the straw roofs or maybe there was like grass on the roofs it was little thatched huts. I was too young to appreciate it. I wish I could find the girl I stayed with in Copenhagen her name was Christina she spoke perfect English didn’t have an accent like you. But not sure if her last name was jenson too or not. Sorry I just never hear anything about Denmark let alone anybody that’s been there, so I got a little excited. It may have changed a lot since then it sure has here. lol do you know that town? I walked to the water everyday and played with jellyfish there was a long pier and the little mermaid was there around where it curved. Anyway, that’s awesome. Do you live here now or are you still in Denmark. I remember a few sentences in danish do you want to go to the store and to town they’re almost the same. And can still count to 12 thirty some years later lol. It was alot different for sure.
Runes are just an alphabet, and like you said, bound runes are just two letters put together for whatever reason. Like many other scripts, roman/latin included, futhark can be used to write many non-magic and magical things alike. Nothing more, nothing less. imho
I got my genealogy tables from a relative in Finland who has been a genealogist for over 30 years. My ansesters about 25or so generations back were Viking kings and princes gamie Olaf and the Bure kinship which blended into the forest Finns and lapplander Sami people then Finnish then moved ro america where i was taught i was full blooded Finnish..
I'm kind of torn on the subject. I mean a living religion should never be static. So there's classic use and there's how people use them now? And I love that Anglo Saxon knife sheath!!!
I have one Rune my Grandmother taught me from Gotland. It was passed down through the family. It doubles as a family identifier or Clan or tribe identifier, choose whatever descriptive you want to use, and a seal of power. If you wanted to imbue power or energy into an object, you performed a ritual and inscribed or carved the symbol into that object. My Great-grandmother told me that it was forbidden in the past on pain of death to use or produce it after Christianity was forced upon us. It was a symbol or rune used by my Berserker Ancestors that was thought to be Evil and Black Magic, so the Christians on the Island wiped it out from existence and outlawed it. I believe that one day they will find it on something. I can draw it and remember it because I kind of have a photographic memory. I remember images I have seen and things I have personally experienced. She drew it only once for me and then abruptly burned the paper.She said it was bad luck or taboo for us to reproduce it now as Christian's. She only did it because it is part of my family history. She also told me that our family once had relatives on Faroe Island. Maybe the rune will be found there also.
Whenever I'm asked if I will "do a reading" for someone I like to take out my rune pouch, pull each rune one by one, and name them as I set them down on my cloth. Then I say "There, I have read you the runes." The phrase "Rotlust tre fell" sticks with me. I know enough about the runes to lay them out, speak their names and meditate on them a bit, but I'm not doing some mystical reading, I am just thinking about my culture a bit and making time for personal reflection. My personal rune is simply the three that make up the phonetic spelling of my nickname, and I chose it for no better reason than they looked good overlaid. That said, if someone wants to go to some arts festival mystic and pay to have chips of burned wood laid out in front of them while they get an ear full of some bitching wisdom straight from the gods, hey it's their money. Maybe they'll actually take an interest and do some real research later, I don't know.
no, we know what they are. They are letters representing sounds. Among others Jackson Crawford has extensive videos explaining how runes where used, where they come from and what sounds they represent.
@@Akkolon If you watched the video, he also mentioned that runes are used for magical purposes at 7:06 You can experiment with applying runes in magic to get a better idea if you believe in that sort of thing.
@@shadowdragon3521 ofc I saw the video and the mentioning of the limited use for what we could perceive as magical use but it still a bit of a stretch to say "I guess we can only guess what the true meaning of runes are" when we clearly do know.
I really appreciate your videos and I find them very helpful. However, I can NOT get over the fact that you look similar to Ubbe from Vikings. Just had to get that out there. Thank you!
I actually created some bindrunes for all þe colours , but þese are my own creations, based upon artistic ambitions, I don't claim it to be historical. Þough we could say þat we are capable to add some culture into þe runes by ourselves, who says culture cannot be added upon? Þen again, we probably have to show, we are worþy to inherit what our ancestors left to us.
I laughed so hard at your “fuck it I’ll just make another mark here. No one around here can read it anyway” 😂 Perfectly said
Doing magik without knowledge is worse karma than they know , Your Knowledge bro is real value , thank you
Love your no BS and no cringe content.
This lighting really makes your blue eyes pop! 🤙🏽
One of my favorite videos you've made. Good topic. It's been a passion pursuit of mine since a wee lad to memorize the runes and their meaning. Very fascinating and misunderstood meaning and script.
Personally I feel bind runes were sometimes used for magic. But I also feel there was little if any standardization to the practice. So each carver essentially made up their own binds & what meaning/effect it was to have. If true this also would make deciphering someone's bind rune essentially impossible & this the bind rune's magic couldn't be undone.
Given thay we know pf the multiplicity of Gods worshipped by the peoples of germania its fair to assume magical practices varied as well
I'm so glad your channel popped up on my feed. Very informative. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you've acquired.
I totally agree, in no way am I an expert in runes but I do have an understanding, and hope to exspand my knowledge. The recent popularity in "Bind Runes" and the meanings of the new Runes I don't trust.
I have a similar view that the old Pagan Runes were at times written in short hand or abbreviation, or a type of rune like sigil, as a sigil is very personal only the practitioner will truly know what it means.
Thankyou for your content.
Your channel is great! Thanks for all you do!
I was happy to see Mr. Flowers work in your recommended books. Futhark has been a major source of knowledge for me personally
It has been very important and fulfilling for me too. Skal
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Reading a fantastic book on Icelandic grimoires and bind runes. I am conflicted about using them as the grimoire warns around impact, etc, if the individual believes in that, etc. So unless i know enough about something, i avoid meddling. This video as usual is very informative . Thank you
Check out Egil's saga and why you should know what you are doing.
Maybe look into creating magical sigils instead.
Just a funny thought. It's runic cursive. At least that's what popped in my head when did you the "they can't read it anyway" bit.
I loved this thank you
I discovered Bind Runes in a book on Northern Magic and always thought 'this is just a way of carving someone's initials.' Apart from Rune Reading I always thought of Runes as a way of spelling, not necessarily symbols. But what I'm learning lately is the magical use of these things came 2 centuries after the Viking Age. Hell, I got a Rune Binding decoration a good friend gave me, it is much treasured and is displayed in my room.
Thank you so much for sharing. I see these all the time on Facebook in many groups. I always appreciate your knowledge.
Great video! Love all the hard work you put into these videos and leading me down research rabbit holes. Thank you!
The 4 "A" runes on the stave are used to call on Odin, as a blessing or a protection for a follower of Odin. The "A" rune being the 4th rune of the Elder Futhark and meaning God or Mouth.
4:58 i was about to say, my theory of bind runes is that they were the labels for their time. you dont see a full description on a label you see what you need to see to to understand what you need to know.
3:07 and here we see one of the first recorded crossword puzzle’s. It was said that one of the ways odin predicted the future was to turn the wood of yggdrasil into paper and use it to make a news paper with prophecies in the form of articles. These news papers would contain crossword puzzle’s like this one for odin to test the wisdom he had gathered on his travels.
Every time I do a rune reading and hagalaz shows up. I know a storm is coming.
"Custom bindrunes" is a business model lol. Also it's weird that you mentioned the Undley bracteate. I recently bought a replica (silver rather than gold), and now I keep seeing references to it.
...Thanks for the post of the subject.
Absolutely appreciated.
Aww, no honorable mention of the Bluetooth logo? 😅
He’s covered this in previous videos but good point
HARALD! The wireless.
It's a well known historical fact the ancient Norse invented wireless headsets.
@@LisaAnn777 inter-ship comms, they were used for keeping score in drinking games.
@@robgau2501YYEEEEESSAS😂
I love your term, cring pagans. Reminds me of several people I've met in the past.
I think bindrunes were sometimes used as like.. a way to put a meaning into a compact "spell" sort of. Perhaps not out of actual magic belief, but more like the way your grandma pressed some money into your hand to buy some candy, when you were little. A well meaning gesture. So yes i suppose a wedding gift or whatever could have bindrunes into it to give the object meaning. Like an abreviation of the couples names, or their first letters in combination with a rune that belongs to a deity, for specific wishes. Perhaps like this.
Bind runes as a practicality of the time makes sense
@Norse Magic and Belief
Excellent video, thank you for posting this!
Believe it or not the majority of my work includes all manner of custom bind runes, in fact this fad is so prevalent that if I carve a totem without them it seems like the customer is put off and feels they have been ripped off somehow.
i believe the consumer perspective is that they get more "bang for their buck" if they combine various glyphs into one "super glyph".
For my work there is only so much physical space available to carve anything, and if you only put "one rune" in that spot it had better be a good one, and one that clearly fits the overall theme*! 😳😬💁
*Theme... Acknowledging that most magical paths use various forms of psychological entrainment, and runes as an ancient language glyph/system is clearly at the top of the list (at least for public recognized systems), and if not too cluttered, to create a simple bind rune certainly gives you more "content" per glyph.
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I am 62 and though my bloodline is Norse, Pictish, Welsh and Irish I have since childhood (and with no ones prompting) drawn runes and various glyphs for magical purposes... it's something that is inherent and driven within me.
The ancient languages had meanings for each letter, and the letters made a constructed meaning, which later became a word, and later became something completely different than the meaning of the letters, and the power of the natural magic has completely dissipated and is no more.
Perhaps this is why this new "bind rune" generation is so fascinated with all of these crazy glyphs... maybe they are inherently trying to recreate something that is lost and rebuilt it without clearly knowing they are doing so...💁
Thank you again for your many wonderful and excellent videos and wealth of knowledge.
Actually, this is really an educational video, on a high scale..well done 👍👍👍
What is lost here is the ORLOG (web of destiny / URD / WYRD) from which all the runes are 'cut'. The futharks all drew from the Norse 'sacred geo' of the time(less)
Thanks for the information and the laughs.
Nicely said. Except in a few instances, bindrunes are historically usually a space-saving device. The same applies to some single runes, such as "maður". Thanks for mentioning my book in your references (second one down).
People tend to think of Norse magic and Icelandic magic as the same thing, and you also multiple uses of bind runes to further confuse people who are new to the subject. The stave type bind runes derived largely from the Keys of Solomon, if I remember correctly, and later gained use in sigil magic. It's interesting to see that there was a tendency to paganize the Judeo-Christian grimoires. Although many of those grimoire concepts originally came from the Persian and Greco-Egyptian sources, so it's not the first time the material was readopted. I have no explanation for the modern pseudo-magical kind of bind runes though. It just seems like misunderstood information passed along the internet. The first time I saw them was over ten years ago on a Swedish jewelry website.
Thanks for sharing this! Very well presented.
I found a book written by Edred Thorsson, but I haven't read it as I couldn't find anything about the author, but seeing you have him as one of your recommended titles, maybe it is about time I did so.
I think a good example would be. How W was originally VV
Precisely. Or the powerful nordic bind-bókstafir:
å < ꜵ < ao
ä < æ < ae
ö < ø < œ < oe
One needs to be very careful when writing out those, or they shallt bring misfortune and ruin thine harvests, or something.
Love these videos brother!
the tripple tyr rune could be the equivilant of the tridentis representing among many things the past, present and future and by Tyr granting one key to victory in all three dimentions of creation. The number three is also important in all religions. Almost alwyas in one way or the other representing wholeness
Ty for continuing these great informational videos my friend I hope you are well 😎 ✌️ ❤
I love that people are ascribing mysticism to ancient virtual acronyms
You have an amazing and beautiful country . I would love to visit some day. We’re glad you’re here in the USA as well and Inhave learned a tremendous about from you !!
Hail to you sir 🍺
I was curious what is the greeting you say in the beginning of all your videos? thanks for all the content you create. keep up the excellent work sir.
you give all us norse/germanic men wisdom and courage of our ancestors! which now is giving me more and more confidence to spit game at every hottie I see. I cherish all women, but damn is out hard to find the right one for the right scenario.. me personally im burnt out on relationships, I just need that 10/10 viking/scythian queen (s)x3 to lead me to my bed chambers 4 days out of the week and id be happy.. and the only way to do that is to throw all the lines out there even if you lose a battle.. you live to continue the war and eventually god willing ill find my 3 queens be whatever ethnicity instead of money grubbing fast-food eating booster jabbing two faced trolls.. I like big troll butts and I can not lie
Keep the great stuff going. Runes are definitely plagued by misinformation and cringe. For me, and my use with the runes, it's quite personal. I even hesitate sometimes to perform a reading with/on my wife. Nothing really bad, just that she really just thinks they are cool, a face value appreciation if that makes sense.
And I liked what you said in a previous video, "make your own!" Yes!
I like the idea regardless of accuracy, I want a bind rune tattoo purely for me so no one knows but it's got a hidden message. Just something unique as remembrance
FASCINATING!!!!
There was a bracteate found with bind runes which implied magical purposes, i believe it was from the 5th century, not the new find with Odins Man, I think the Undley one
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As with any language, I question what was the inspiration for the design. What instrument of form does it model itself after? The lines and curves of a tree or the shape of bones, for example? Is it a conscious expression of an unconscious or not easily observable force such as electrical energy? Without the primary source of reference, it is challenging to understand the original intent of a crafted communication form.
5:33 - its symbolic of compression technology which is an essential element of nature:
I've tried to explain this to people many times yet they try and use examples from long after the christianization to point to magical uses of bind runes. Or looking at spell inscriptions that use them as evidence of the bindrune itself being magical. Hel there are some examples from the viking age and earlier of rune staves, very similar to ogham, yet those are still inscriptions and though sometimes they are spells that's not the same thing as the "Binderunes" people think of. Magical inscriptions don't always even use bindrunes.
Your first two book recommendations I totally agree with, but I would caution anyone concerning flowers/thorsson, same guy by the way. Just do a little research and you will understand my misgivings on this man.
I have a question that i figure you are the right guy to ask.
I've been researching the relation between different cultures, and how the names of many gods came from one original indo-european word, which then shifted as language developed; Indo-European Dyēus became Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, and Germanic Tiwaz (Tyr). My question is how tyr shifted from the God of the Sky and Chief God, to the God of War, and how odin became seen as the chief god rather than the original, Tyr?
I believe that Teiwaz was the original Chief God / Creator God. The great creator god was often in many cultures the god of law and justice. Odin means "the raging one" symbolizes ecstasy. When the Germanic tribes came into a long period of fighting with the Roman Empire, I believe that they sought need to prioritize Odin over Tyr since they needed the war spirit more than law/justice. And by the time when Christian scholars started to write about Germanic religion, Odin had overshadowed Tyr. This is just my opinion tho :)
Very interesting, I'm "recognizing" the runes, after keeping Edred Thorsson's book for a long time without reading it.
But I need to believe that everything has its time...
How can we explain what we cannot see or hear?
Thanks! 😉
If I understand you correctly bind ruins are not necessarily in line, like OGAM which is usually written in the corner of a stone.
They could possibly be a postscript?
Nine Naud bindes and that make it intersting when discussing Uthark och Futhark like Sigurd Agrell. And if using Uthark the Naud is nine. hmm.
The letters similar in both futark's as well in the latin alphabet are B.R.I.
I wonder, could the bind runes with the non words be sounds to be made in. a chant?
Great information
Intention or context is everything. That's why something should be shared with different experts. Human history always needs to be preserved by our society.
The only bindrune I've ever made was FYR. Merging the AngloSaxon word for fire. Simply because I put my staff in a fire lol
It also kinda looks cool in AngloSaxon futhorc.
This explains a lot of why me trying to research Bind runes still left me confused and lost
Why did my older brother put the protection symbol on his room and moved out? Is it bad?
Is it true that places in Sweden have had things unearthed and they are disposed of
I have a theory on the gibberish runes we see such as the kragehul. is it possible that its music written down how we would hear it. Some of it spoken sounds like it has no meaning but to me theres a sense of rythem to the way the words flow. If the runes are magic would it by somthing maybe that would be played on a drum or hummed or a style of throat singing that we dint understand?
Very interesting. Personally I don't dabble with rune too much! I don't want to mess with things I don't fully understand; and I don't really trust anyone these days.
Can you tell me anything about the heavner runes in Oklahoma
I can agree that the popularity of bind runes today are not reflective of their use in ancient pagan religion. I might suggest though, that bind runes (if they were used often) were more personal and probably used rarely, as you mentioned, to maybe put a lot of meaning onto a little bit of space, like a talisman or a stone to be carried or worn by a person. I have no proof of this, it is only an opinion of mine based mostly on the idea that the absence of evidence does not necessarily equate to the evidence of absence. I might go farther and say that even if you are completely correct, that would not detract from an evolution of a faith in modern times to "use old technology in a new way." So, while I'm willing to accept that bind runes may not have been a staple of ancient pagans, I would posit that the concept of bind runes could be utilized appropriately today through proper knowledge of the runes as well as proper direction of intention by the user.
Your points were very good and you presented well. Thank you for doing so much research and speaking from a place of knowledge about these things.
Do you have any idea where I can find Saxon runes I can’t find hardly anything on them
You tell us that you like the Bronz age in Norway best. Is this where the Norse learned to do the intricate metal work and engraving that we see from the Viking era?
You mentioned that the link to the wand would be in the description, but I don't quite see it. Anybody have it?
Hello, just a quick question please, do you know why the runes were dropped in favor of latin alphabet? Alphabet evolution: Egyptian hieroglyphs -> Proto Sinai (Egypt writing system) -> Phoenician(modern Lebanon) -> Greek alphabet (added vowels - Cyrillic alphabet ) -> Latin -> Modern European languages but it started in Egypt it seems. Europe is linked to Egypt. Why were runes dropped in nordic countries/Germany in favor of Egyptian writing, do you know?
is there a european shop for your norse flag as well?
Bindrunes are used as sigils in old Germanic magic.
I've had varying success with them, but since they are language dependant, you'd damn well better know what you're asking for, and who you're asking it from.
Not everything from the past is apropos for the present. ❤😊❤. I no longer drive stick shift. I drive automatic transmissions. And I have power windows not crank handles. So is the case with archaic practices.
Good video ⚔️
My favorite one is on a stone in Väringe sweden sö 133
Talking about B***s""" how about a video about the use of incense, are there any historical records of incense being used? So much bull online about white sage etc it would be great to hear your perspective. Great video as always.
Gagaga reminds me of a laugh lol like Mr. Krabs.
there's no difference between a bind rune and writing two lowercase t's and using 1 line to cross them both
runes were used for magical purposes, but any and all writing and languages were used for magical purposes
the romanticization of runes is so cute
I recently thought about the practice of Brahmacharya in hinduism. So you think there is a similar idea in germanic/ Norse tradition?
How do the anglosaxon runes relate to the story of runes?
I believe it’s because it’s of Germanic origin but of course there’s other runes in other cultures
Yeah Denmark. My mom sent me to Denmark for a like 2 months when I was 12 with her friend. It was like maybe 87 or 88 ish. Do you know a town if you said it in English it would sound like Holtbek I that’s the word I remember but I can’t find it on a map. So maybe I’m not remembering it right. The little mermaid statue is there. I met James Darren and his wife Evy Daren they were old movie stars from a long time ago because that was my mom’s friends aunt and uncle and the aunt was from there their last name was jenson. Then I went to Copenhagen and saw all the things there and went tivoli I remember a lot of the things like that spiral staircase around that tall like tower thing and everything was copper. And all the dairy stuff like yoghurt and ice cream there’s no comparison I’ve tried to find out why but haven’t even heard anyone mention it. If we could have that stuff shipped over here or figure out how to make it like that you’d make a killing nobody would go anywhere else for ice cream. And they have a lot of good food and that bread, it’s black. It was hard to get used to but I finally did and I’ll bet that’s so much more healthy but I doubt you can even buy the ingredients to make it here. Anyway, I was too young then and homesick, but I wish I could go again now. Oh and we went to that old village with the straw roofs or maybe there was like grass on the roofs it was little thatched huts. I was too young to appreciate it. I wish I could find the girl I stayed with in Copenhagen her name was Christina she spoke perfect English didn’t have an accent like you. But not sure if her last name was jenson too or not. Sorry I just never hear anything about Denmark let alone anybody that’s been there, so I got a little excited. It may have changed a lot since then it sure has here. lol do you know that town? I walked to the water everyday and played with jellyfish there was a long pier and the little mermaid was there around where it curved. Anyway, that’s awesome. Do you live here now or are you still in Denmark. I remember a few sentences in danish do you want to go to the store and to town they’re almost the same. And can still count to 12 thirty some years later lol. It was alot different for sure.
Runes are just an alphabet, and like you said, bound runes are just two letters put together for whatever reason.
Like many other scripts, roman/latin included, futhark can be used to write many non-magic and magical things alike.
Nothing more, nothing less. imho
I got my genealogy tables from a relative in Finland who has been a genealogist for over 30 years. My ansesters about 25or so generations back were Viking kings and princes gamie Olaf and the Bure kinship which blended into the forest Finns and lapplander Sami people then Finnish then moved ro america where i was taught i was full blooded Finnish..
My ancestors were King Louis the 14th and Marie Antoinette, along with a gazillion other people.
Madame pamita, runes in magic, Hot to use runes in spells
I'm kind of torn on the subject. I mean a living religion should never be static. So there's classic use and there's how people use them now? And I love that Anglo Saxon knife sheath!!!
Cool
I have one Rune my Grandmother taught me from Gotland. It was passed down through the family.
It doubles as a family identifier or Clan or tribe identifier, choose whatever descriptive you want to use, and a seal of power.
If you wanted to imbue power or energy into an object, you performed a ritual and inscribed or carved the symbol into that object.
My Great-grandmother told me that it was forbidden in the past on pain of death to use or produce it after Christianity was forced upon us.
It was a symbol or rune used by my Berserker Ancestors that was thought to be Evil and Black Magic, so the Christians on the Island wiped it out from existence and outlawed it.
I believe that one day they will find it on something.
I can draw it and remember it because I kind of have a photographic memory. I remember images I have seen and things I have personally experienced.
She drew it only once for me and then abruptly burned the paper.She said it was bad luck or taboo for us to reproduce it now as Christian's.
She only did it because it is part of my family history.
She also told me that our family once had relatives on Faroe Island. Maybe the rune will be found there also.
Whenever I'm asked if I will "do a reading" for someone I like to take out my rune pouch, pull each rune one by one, and name them as I set them down on my cloth. Then I say "There, I have read you the runes." The phrase "Rotlust tre fell" sticks with me. I know enough about the runes to lay them out, speak their names and meditate on them a bit, but I'm not doing some mystical reading, I am just thinking about my culture a bit and making time for personal reflection. My personal rune is simply the three that make up the phonetic spelling of my nickname, and I chose it for no better reason than they looked good overlaid.
That said, if someone wants to go to some arts festival mystic and pay to have chips of burned wood laid out in front of them while they get an ear full of some bitching wisdom straight from the gods, hey it's their money. Maybe they'll actually take an interest and do some real research later, I don't know.
Ok that thumbnail is some spot on shit 😂
I guess we can only guess what the true meaning of runes are.
no, we know what they are. They are letters representing sounds. Among others Jackson Crawford has extensive videos explaining how runes where used, where they come from and what sounds they represent.
@@Akkolon If you watched the video, he also mentioned that runes are used for magical purposes at 7:06
You can experiment with applying runes in magic to get a better idea if you believe in that sort of thing.
@@shadowdragon3521 ofc I saw the video and the mentioning of the limited use for what we could perceive as magical use but it still a bit of a stretch to say "I guess we can only guess what the true meaning of runes are" when we clearly do know.
City of Breza Bosnie and Herzegovina you can find runes..
Do you think less wealthy Germanic warriors would wear padded wool or leather armor?
I really appreciate your videos and I find them very helpful. However, I can NOT get over the fact that you look similar to Ubbe from Vikings. Just had to get that out there. Thank you!
Might be a daft question but ...... can runes be translated to the English alphabet ?
Tyr rune probably means victory because it looks like a sword.
More like a spear, lets be honest.
Maybe they are slang of the time. Imagine someone 600 years from now trying to understand the strange symbology we use right now.
Graffitti.
Your fucken awesome brother
the shaman says magic is real,do we hate the shaman?
U-tell-em!!!!
I actually created some bindrunes for all þe colours , but þese are my own creations, based upon artistic ambitions, I don't claim it to be historical.
Þough we could say þat we are capable to add some culture into þe runes by ourselves, who says culture cannot be added upon?
Þen again, we probably have to show, we are worþy to inherit what our ancestors left to us.
11:25 True words. How's the line in Egil Saga: _Skalat mandr rúnar rista. Nema rada vel kunni._