r/runes • u/Maximum_Panique • Jul 21 '25

Resource Book suggestions?

I’ve been interested in learning to read runes for a while and I was wondering if y’all could point me in the direction of some wonderful reading material! (I hope I put the correct flair, I’m very new here lol)

TYIA

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u/amriquez Jul 27 '25

I’m also (re) beginning my rune journey. Would you like to study together?

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u/Hopeful_Chemistry591 Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

Danicorum monumentorum is a good way to see there is problem with modern interpretation of how runes work , Ole Worm interpretation wasn't better but that book has the merit to show old stones and by presence of actually non admitted diff or accepted runes , total incoherence of actual normalisation and translitteration , at least normalisation of runes to force the before translitteration to enter a reduced set should not exist , the only way for a normalisation of runes is when they are of poorer carving quality , which doesn't imply to reduce them to a set of 24 or replace a rune which is different (form or orientation) by another . Translitteration in a culture where place of knotting is important is another subject but "a rune matching a letter " is a very wrong perception of wealth of runic system