Runic Inscriptions - et en version française !

Runic inscriptions can give us some idea of how the runes were used by some at least. This is an easy to read and understand (as compared to the original sources!) presentation of runic inscriptions that you have likely never seen before. You will find practically all the runic inscriptions available from Krause, Moltke, Antonsen and Derolez in English, complete with explanations.

Cet essai présente une étude des inscriptions runiques existantes, comme elles ont été décrites dans les livres de Krause, Derolez, Moltke, Antonsen et Makaev, difficiles à obtenir - et même à comprendre. Les inscriptions runiques

Rune Pages

These Rune pages discuss these kinds of things:

• *NOUVEAU*! L'univers des runes d'après les textes anciens.
• Old English, Norwegian, Islandic rune poems and en français: Poèmes runiques Vieil-Anglais, Norvégien et Islandais
• Wimmer's versions of the rune poems: one of the first of their scholarly versions. A copy of the German version, or its English translation.
• how runes have been used historically and how the runes can be used for healing
• descriptions of each rune
• the Lay of Sigrdrifa
• a discussion on Runes and Divination
• the Old English Rune Poem
• *NOUVEAU*! Les runes armanes de Guido 'von' List

A look at the etymology of rune from Proto-Indo-European to English and it's branchings off along the way. Please let us know if you can add to this page!

Ancient Norse Sagas, Germanic Lore, Celtic Legends and Historical Texts

Our Nordic and Germanic Lore pages contain articles and short descriptions on things like: the Voluspa; the ancient German Goddess, Frau Holle or Perchta or Perhata; Jacob; a summary of Dumézil's book, Loki; and Jordanes' description of the Goths.

En construction, deux nouvelles sections: les traductions de Bergmann des poèmes eddiques et les chants populaires danois.

Two new sections are starting: Bergmann's translations of Eddic poems, and Danish old songs.

A complete version of the Grimm tales in German, in the correct order, with a side by side, paragraph by paragraph English translation, that I gathered and compiled. We thank the Midhnott Sol Kindred for making it available at http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmsf/. You will also find many other interesting texts on their site at: http://www.northvegr.org/lore/main.html

A section is devoted to the early travels to Nordic countries that still retained a good amount of heathenism. The first page available at this point is Scheffer's description of Lapp country in 1673

Aussi, en version française(de l'époque!): la description de la Laponie due à Scheffer (1673).

SIBERIAN SHAMANISM

Maria Antonina CZAPLICKA's chapters [from her Aborigenal Siberia] on the Shaman in Action and Shamanism and Sex, and, [from her My Siberian Year]: (Shamanist) Religion, A Shaman's curse, with comments. Traduction française de l'original anglais: Le chaman en action et Chamanisme et sexe, La religion (chamaniste), La malédiction d'un chaman.

Stepan P. Krasheninnikov's Explorations of Kamchatka 1735-1741. His chapters on the Kamchadal Gods, shamans, and feasts. Traduction française de la version américaine: Les Chamans, Fêtes et Cérémonies.

CELTIC LORE

This section gives the four branches of the Mabinogion and other Welsh ancient novels of the Red and White books with an English translation of Joseph Loth's footnotes. As far as possible, no theory, no interpretation, mystical or dumezical, just the texts and their historical and geographical setting. (Pas de théorie, qu'elle soit mystique ou dumézilienne, les textes seuls avec leur contexte historique et géographique: Honneur à Joseph Loth!)

[Ancient and modern versions: a discussion of recent 'improvements' on Loth's notes. La querelle des anciens et des modernes: a-t-on 'amélioré' les notes de Loth?]

Mabinogi of/de Pwyll, trilingual version: Middle Welsh, English, French (pdf)

Mabinogi of Branwen, bilingual version: Middle Welsh, English, et Mabinogi de Branwen, version bilingue: Gallois moyen, Français

Mabinogi of/de Manawydan, bilingual

[Mabinogi of Math, in English, et] Le mabinogi de Math

[The Dream of Maxen, et] Le songe de Maxen

Bilingual French & English: The aventure of Lludd and Llevelys, et L'aventure de Lludd et Llevelys

Kulhwch and Olwen, et Kulhwch et Olwen

[The Dream of Ronabwy, et Le songe de Ronabwy] and the last three ones to come.

 

Poems, Charms, and Curses

Healing with Galdr

These pages contain a selection of healing charms: Lithuanian charms, Anglo-Saxon charms, charms from Hildegarde von Bingen, charms from the Kalevala, runic charms, charms from the Scottish Highlands, and rare Baltic Healing Charms (in English and French)

Lithuanian Folklore

A page devoted to Lithuanian Folklore, containing so far some translations of Littauische Volksliede, very much under construction however (a *very* slow one, sorry!)

Osberg "buddha"

The famous ship-grave of Oseberg has given us numerous archaeological treasures. Among them, an interesting but puzzling finding has still today no satisfactory interpretation: the so-called "Buddha-bøtte" (Buddha-pail). Here is a discussion of the find, with links to beautiful photos.

Healing Galdor article

This article on healing is actually a summary of Yves' approach to healing. So, in a sense, it's a summary of this site and his book too.

Rovas - Hungarian runes

Rovas - Les runes hongroises

The topic and even the existence of a runic-like writing originating from Hungary is often superbly ignored by the runologists, even when they discuss the possible origin of the runes. It seems that, worse, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences does not want to see the topic even discussed. Thus, it is left to a handful of faithful Hungarians who try to show the antiquity of their rovás writing. When so few people are active in a field, it cannot but show large deficiencies. For example, when a set of shapes is found, nothing proves it represents runes, rovás, or gothic letters, etc. The recognition comes when some archeological studies have been performed, the shapes are well recognized for belonging to a given alphabet, an interpretation is given, and some kind of coherent body of knowledge is formed about the topic. To read more...

Nordic Magic Healing

is available at http://www.upublish.com/books/kodratoff.htm

Whether you have been studying the runes for years or just beginning, you will not only find everything you ever wanted to know about runes, but everything you should know about them. This is a completely original work, based on historical documents, archeological finds and years of personal experience. Presented in three volumes, Nordic Magic Healing by Yves Kodratoff gives you a completely new approach to healing that integrates ancient and modern healing methods without compromise and combines them with the original use of the runes. In no other text will you find such a comprehensive presentation of the runes and healing. http://www.nordic-life.org/nmh/nmh.htm tells you more about this book.

Email Lists

This is a page of email lists that you can join to discuss the ideas presented on this site.

Links

Just what you would expect, links! We don't have a large number of them, but what is there is very good and will certainly get you started in the right direction.

References

If you are very keen, and you would like to check out the references for the information you find on these pages, then you are in the right place!

Références en Français.

Une version française d'une entrevue avec Beinteinsson, le fondateur de la Ásatrúarfélag en 1973 en Islande.