Author : Ann Groa Sheffield
Release : 2013-03-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 487/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Long Branches by : Ann Groa Sheffield
Download or read book Long Branches written by Ann Groa Sheffield. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long Branches" places the Younger Futhark - the runes of the Viking Age - in their historical and cultural context. Neither magical guide nor academic treatise, "Long Branches" investigates the meanings of this set of sixteen runes used throughout Scandinavia. Author Ann Groa Sheffield draws on the stories preserved in the Norse Eddas and sagas together with other evidence from Germanic literature, archaeology and linguistics to explore in depth what each stave may have meant to the people who carved these runes into wood, stone, metal, and bone a thousand years ago.