4 The Anglo-Saxon Futhorc
Most rune-workers I know work exclusively with the Elder Futhark, the 24 runes described in the previous chapter. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in the extra Futhorc runes, the Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian runes not included in the original Futhark. Raven Kaldera, one of the first people to write about using these runes as a Northern Tradition Shaman, notes: “As I studied them…I was moved and shaken by the deep meanings of the extra runes. They are dark, complex, and difficult; their concepts are ambivalent, and they reek of the Rokkr or Jotnar, the ‘dark gods’ of Norse mythology.”
For this reason, they may not be everyone’s proverbial cup of tea. For those rune-workers interested in incorporating ...
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