Author: Eirik Westcoat

My Rune Course Enrollment Closes Tomorrow!

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If you’re the sort who likes waiting until the last minute, then now’s the time, because the last minute has arrived!

Tomorrow evening (that is, Sunday at 700pm Eastern)—and yes, that’s Groundhog Day—enrollment closes for my online course in rune-writing and simple alliterative poetry. It’s called “Sacred English,” and with the combined powers of runes and poetry, you can make your English magical.

Join the American Futharch Revolution, and learn to write runes the way the ancient runemasters wrote them, and with the traditional poetic key.

In Hávamál 144, Odin challenges us to know how to write and read the runes. Are you ready to answer that challenge in the most authentic way possible in over a thousand years?

Not sure if you’ve got the time? After all, it is a cohort-course with a schedule to it. But as part of that, you’ll get plenty of my time—I’ll review the exercises, answer your questions, and prepare the four review lessons based on how the students are doing with the material. That could even include me creating additional teaching materials to address specific needs. It’s a unique opportunity to pick my brain on all this.

And everything will be pre-recorded, so you can fit it in your schedule however you like. Not to mention that you’ll also get to keep a large amount of videos, slides, audio, and guidebooks from the course.

For more details, see the page on my American Futharch website:

Sacred English

or just jump straight to the course page and enroll at my Skaldic Eagle Flight School:

https://skaldiceagle.thinkific.com/courses/sacred-english

Enjoy!

Sacred English Launches Anew!

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If you missed the fall semester run of my first online class, Sacred English, your new opportunity is here! Say hello to the Winter/Spring semester of the course—registration just opened today, and continues through February 2.

The course will super-charge your learning of the American Futharch and how to write with it. Take giant leaps toward mastering the American Futharch and writing traditional Germanic poetry.

American Runes and Alliterative Poetry belong together, like peanut butter & jelly, gin & tonic, or bacon & eggs. Find out why, and make your English sacred again with their powers combined!

For more details, see the page on my American Futharch website:
https://americanfutharch.com/sacred-english

or just jump straight to the course page and enroll at my Skaldic Eagle Flight School:
https://skaldiceagle.thinkific.com/courses/sacred-english

You can also see my post last year about the fall semester launch here:
https://theskaldiceagle.com/2024/09/13/my-first-online-course-is-here/

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A Free Galdor-Mantra!

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Are you excited about the possibilities of rune magic directly with your native language? Or even just curious for a small slice of that? 

Are ready to try that out with a simple, practical chant that you can learn in only a few minutes, but then use it anywhere to focus your mind or simply call on the power of the runes—all of them together—to fill your spirit?

Or would you like to try learning the sounds for writing but feel that it might be tricky?

Then yes, this free Galdor-Mantra is for you. All of you, and you can learn it with my free mini-course at my Skaldic Eagle Flight School.

Click here for the free course, “A Galdor-Mantra of the American Futharch.”

Why call it a Galdor-Mantra?

  • It’s a Galdor because it uses the sounds of the Runes (in this case all 33 runes of the American Futharch) in order to invoke their meanings for magical or religious purposes. And it’s also meant for you to visualize the rune staves that go with the chanting when you can.
  • It’s a Mantra simply in the sense that it’s designed to be easily repeated over and over, and can be used for many of the same meditative or spiritual purposes that other mantras are used for.

Enjoy!

Rune Lots of the American Futharch

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The American Futharch Runes aren’t just for writing. Among other things, they’re also for divination. I made several sets of varying sizes and shapes for myself, and have been casting with them regularly. But I also want to encourage others to cast with them as well.

To that end, I made four sets of American Futharch Rune lots out of birch rounds, to sell to others. This was a couple of months ago, and I put them on my Etsy store. It probably would have helped if I’d told anyone about them. 😀 Nonetheless, I sold two of the sets so far, and both in the same way—they were people who had heard about the American Futharch, and asked me if any rune lot sets were available. Naturally, I sent them the happy answer with my Etsy store link.

But it’s time I got around to telling everyone else, and in this case, that means this here blog. So here’s my Etsy store where, at the time of this writing, the remaining two sets are still listed. I carved and painted them by hand—yes, painted! In a world where just about every rune set in wood is made by wood burning, I insist on carving and painting in wood. And you can see the results, they are way more beautiful that way. I’ve never made a set by wood burning! 😀

I’ll eventually make more American Futharch sets for putting on my Etsy store, but that’s unlikely to happen before the start of 2025. So for now, these remaining two sets are the last ones currently available that have been made by the hand of the creator of the America Futharch—me! 😌

It is one of the two remaining sets that is above as the featured image for this post. Enjoy!

[Edit: As of mid-February 2025, the sets in this post are all sold out. Much thanks to those joining the American Futharch revolution!]

My Runes/Poetry Course Starts Tomorrow!

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If you’re the sort who likes waiting until the last minute, then now’s the time, because the last minute has arrived!

Tomorrow morning (that is, Wednesday at 800am), my online course in rune-writing and simple alliterative poetry starts. It’s called “Sacred English,” and with the combined powers of runes and poetry, you can make your English magical.

Join the American Futharch Revolution, and learn to write runes the way the ancient runemasters wrote them, and with the traditional poetic key.

In Hávamál 144, Odin challenges us to know how to write and read the runes. Are you ready to answer that challenge in the most authentic way possible in over a thousand years?

Not sure if you’ve got the time? After all, it is a cohort-course with a schedule to it. But as part of that, you’ll get plenty of my time—I’ll review the exercises, answer your questions, and prepare the four review lessons based on how the students are doing with the material. That could even include me creating additional teaching materials to address specific needs. It’s a unique opportunity to pick my brain on all this.

And everything will be pre-recorded, so you can fit it in your schedule however you like. Not to mention that you’ll also get to keep a large amount of videos, slides, audio, and guidebooks from the course.

For more details, see the page on my American Futharch website:
https://americanfutharch.com/sacred-english

or just jump straight to the course page and enroll at my new Skaldic Eagle Flight School:
https://skaldiceagle.thinkific.com/courses/sacred-english

Enjoy!

My first online course is here!

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I’ve finally entered the world of independent online teaching with my first course on Runes and Poetry!

This course is my big epiphany in its most significant manifestation so far! Over three years ago, I had the lightning-strike idea that the rune names and futhark order for the Elder Futhark runes preceded the existence of rune-staves and runic writing. How could that be? Only one possible way: as tool to codify, teach, and promote the nascent system of early Germanic alliterative poetry, which certainly originated before the Proto-Germanics had writing. Having developed a poetry built on matching stressed sounds, it would be natural for the Proto-Germanics to name the sounds of their language in order to talk about them. (E.g., “This line alliterates on Hagalaz with a final stress on Tīwaz.”) The poetry itself would be the natural method for handing these names down the generations, in the form of the first “rune” poem. And when the early Germanics finally chose to adopt writing at some later time, these names for the sounds—and a canonical order for them in their “rune” poem—were already on hand to be applied to the rune-staves. (I’ve got an academic article eventually coming out that discusses this in more detail.)

I immediately recognized that all this was a great idea for modern alliterative poetry. Indeed, the sounds of modern English also had be named so that today’s alliterative poetry could become all that it could be, and the runes were equally an ideal vehicle for this. And so by reforming the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, I created the American Futharch, the first full-fledged runic system in centuries, fully integrated with alliterative poetry, just as I envisioned it for the Elder Futhark and its oral precursor.

And now you can join me in my new course and learn runes integrated with the traditional poetic key. It’s called “Sacred English: American Runes and Alliterative Poetry,” and it’s a great way to turbo-charge your rune-writing knowledge of authentic rune writing with the American Futharch, while simultaneously learning to write simple alliterative poetry.

Instruction starts September 25, and last day to enroll this semester is September 27.

For more details, see the page on my American Futharch website:

https://americanfutharch.com/sacred-english

or just jump straight to the course page and enroll at my new Skaldic Eagle Flight School:

https://skaldiceagle.thinkific.com/courses/sacred-english

Enjoy!

Poetry Posting Vacation

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For a while now, it’s been the routine here to make a poetry post on the 3rd Sunday of each month. But for at least July and August, this blog will be on “poetry vacation” from those posts as I prepare for the launch of an online course in the near future. (And there’s a poetry book I need to publish also!) News posts, such as the recent one about my appearance on the Plant Cunning Podcast will continue to run as needed, and there will definitely be some of those coming in the two months ahead. 😉

The Plant Cunning Podcast, featuring the American Futharch

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My third podcast appearance with the American Futharch recently debuted, last Wednesday, July 10. I’d been enjoying a vacation in Iceland (follow me on social media for the pics), hence the delay in my post here, but now I’m back in the ‘States, and thrilled to share this news with you all.

It’s on the Plant Cunning Podcast, by hosts AC Stauble and Isaac Hill:
Ep. 159: Eirik Westcoat on the American Futharch and Heathen Esotericism.

The audio edition is here directly on the Podcast Follow website, which also contains links for it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The video edition of the podcast is here on Youtube.

Enjoy! 😊

Thor’s Journey to Utgard, Part 4

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I now conclude the tale of Thor’s Journey to Utgard with the final seventeen stanzas, in which all is revealed about the strange happenings in the hall of Utgardaloki. Converting this to what I call “standard lines,” it was 264 lines long. My two longest poems are 729 and 983 lines, and, shorter than this, I think my Brisingamen poem came in at 96 lines. Next month will bring a new poem of some kind. Enjoy!

The crone then came,
cracking her knuckles,
ready for the match.
The wrestling began;
Ennilang strained hard,
yet Elli stood firm,
no matter the force
his might brought forth.

Then tricks she tried
and the True One slipped;
in pulling and pushing
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