New Course Launch: American Rune Writing

I’ve enjoyed teaching my Sacred English course to two cohorts these past two semesters. But I’ve always know that eventually, it would need to fly in a different way, one that allowed students to take it at any time and work through the materials at their own pace. When I started Sacred English last September, I wasn’t sure when that would happen. But the time has arrived, and here it is.

The course is called “American Rune Writing,” and like my other courses, it’s offered through my Skaldic Eagle Flight School. Rather than another cohort or semester-based offering, it’s always open to enrollment, and there’s no time clock for the lessons, so you can go through them and the rest of the course materials at your own pace. That means it’s not as “high touch” as Sacred English, so the exercises come with an answer key, rather than individualized instructor feedback. But the exercises have been expanded a bit, and there are still the online lesson forums where you can ask me and the other students about anything on the lessons.

And to be perfectly clear, it’s not the entirety of Sacred English. Rather, it’s all the rune-writing material from Sacred English, re-organized and spruced up a bit. And by being only the rune material and not the poetry material, I can offer it at a good deal less than the price of Sacred English. (Don’t worry, the poetry portions of Sacred English will get a similar treatment later this year.)

Today, it’s springtime in America for learning to write runes just like an ancient runemaster. With American Rune Writing, you’ll learn:

  • Runes That Speak Your Language
  • Runes in a Living Language, Not a Dead One
  • The Secrets to Writing Exactly Like an Ancient Runemaster
  • The Primordial Tradition, Restored
  • How to Master of the Mysteries of Your Own Speech
  • Declaring Your Runic Independence from the Profane Alphabet
  • The Right Way to Fulfill Odin’s Challenge in the Opening of Hávamál 144
  • How the Runes Exist in the Totality of Your Speech

Instruction has just opened. You can enroll and start learning authentic rune writing today!

For more details, see the description page on my American Futharch website, or just jump straight to the course page and enroll at my Skaldic Eagle Flight School.

Enjoy!

The Yew

Hail all! For the third Sunday of June, I have another poem for you. It’s about my other favorite tree, the Yew (Taxus baccata). With it, there’s a picture of some yew trees from Ireland, which I took when I visited there on a research trip in 2019.

Enjoy!


The Yew

The Tree of Trees for triumph I praise,
that fimbul rood and focus of Spirit
a gift of the Gods for the gain of Midgard.
A lustrous light, it is life in death
when cold and snow surround our ken.
For the noble Norse and numerous others,
it is majesty, main, and myth-saturated;
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Black Walnut

Hail all! For the third Sunday of May, I have another poem for you. It’s about one of my two favorite trees, the eastern American Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). With it, there’s a picture of a local tree at the end, from last summer.

Enjoy!


Black Walnut

A mighty tree, an American treasure,
is Juglans nigra, the Union’s walnut.
Warm, humid air with welcome sunshine
favors its growth in a fine summer.
‘Tis green everywhere: green are the leaves,
green the flowers and green the fruits.
The inside is sealed by a silver-gray bark;
placed underneath, with pungent scent
is a staining substance — a strong essence —
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