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They’re Here. My Third and Fourth Books are Available Now!

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My new books and the infamous essay have launched and are now available for purchase. This will be a fairly short and straightforward post.

Here’s the links:
Shining Mead — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947407163
Occult Mead — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947407171

Occult Mead features my breakthrough essay, “Wewelsburg’s So-Called ‘Black Sun’ is Really Himmler’s Round Table and Grail,” in which I make the best case that there has ever been for the identifying the notorious sun wheel that Himmler put on the floor of Wewelsburg’s North Tower as an icon of King Arthur’s Round Table and the Holy Grail. I now call the symbol the Round Table Sun Wheel.

One of my advance readers summed it up with: “Once you see it, you can never unsee it.” I know I certainly could never unsee it. I know that not everyone will be convinced. But now there’s a new challenge—and a warning—shining out from what was once a swirling void that has had the most ridiculous nonsense projected into it.

The essay is also available separately in digital form at my Skaldic Eagle Flight School site:
https://skaldiceagle.thinkific.com/products/digital_downloads/wewelsburg-round-table

There’s memes to go with this, though they’ll probably be coming tomorrow or so. But what do you think about a Round Table solution to the most notorious mystery of Nazi occultism? And will you be getting a copy of one or more of these?

It’s On, Books Going Live Soon

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It’s on. The proof copies look great, and my books will be going live for purchase at potentially any moment. And I’ll also debut the controversial essay as a stand-alone digital offering (that was the plan all along, pardon I didn’t really say that before now), especially for those who don’t want to wait for the print editions. Here are some details:

Poetry Book: Shining Mead, black & white trade paperback, xii + 132 pages.
Essay Book: Occult Mead, standard color trade paperpack, xviii + 194 pages.
Stand-Alone Essay: “Wewelsburg…,” color pdf, vi + 66 pages.

Yes, color! There are numerous pictures in the notorious essay, and I’m pleased to offer them in color to everyone, not just those who get the digital edition of the essay. There’s no difference between the book and stand alone-versions of the essay (not even the page numbering), except for a slight change in the running heads, and of course, that all the links are clickable in the digital version.

Allons-y.
Tear down the wall!
Warp speed, engage.
Chevron 7 locked.
3, 2, 1, ignition full thrust.

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend. There’s no more teasers. Also, no more posts are planned until the reveal, the live purchase links for the books and essay, and more memes.

The Cover of Shining Mead

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It’s the cover of my new soon-to-be released poetry book! Shining Mead features a TRUE black sun, a total solar eclipse (and not something wrongly thought to be a black sun). This is from the Great American Eclipse of August 2017, which I got to see. Much thanks to Albo Greene for the photo. You can find her work at <albofilm.com> or over on instagram: <instagram.com/albo.film>

What’s in the book? The poetry is quite different from my first two books, Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites and Eagle’s Mead. Yet these are still poems where the gods live, and Óðrœrir, the Mead of Poetry, is a real, vivifying force that flows through both words and worlds. All of my poems are much more personal this time. They include my reflections on the mission for traditional poetry in today’s world, living abroad for grad school, politics, esotericism, rune work, spirituality, trees, depression, love, sex, and more. This is poetry with a message and an orientation toward transcendence: a Traditionalist perspective from seeking the Mysteries and the Grail. And all of it is in modern English versions of traditional Old English and Old Norse alliterative meters.

It’s not poetry for today’s managerial aristocrats (this ain’t MFA poetry!) or bourgeois aristocrats (it’s not mass-market poetry either), but rather poetry for aristocrats of the soul.

But next up, it’s time for for the 💩 to hit the fan. The last time I posted a controversial book cover (almost 7 years ago), people unfriended me, and I got canceled for it! At least this time, if I get canceled again, it’ll be for my own book cover, and not somebody else’s. 😄

The Calm before the Storm

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I’ve been very quiet lately on my mailing list, social media, my Patreon site, and this-here blog. I haven’t quit in any sense, but rather I’ve been very “locked in” as the young people say these days.

I’ve been locked in on my coming book publications: one poetry book, and one essay book. I’m pleased to say they’re almost ready. I’m into the second round of test proof copies for both of them. One of them appears to be at “golden master” status now. The other is in its final tweaking stage before what should be the final proof copy and its release.

So all of my “radio silence” has been the calm before the storm. I’ll be working this launch quite extensively. And there’s not all that much left before the launch sequence gets started in earnest. It’ll be quite a storm!

Storm? Yes. Some of the material in the books, most especially a particular essay, may be seen as rather controversial, even notorious. Though you might not believe me, that’s a bit understated. Will the Skaldic Eagle become infamous? Time will tell.

Eagle’s Mead Audio Release!

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My first major poetry book, Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites, was released with an audio collection alongside it, in which I recited many of the best poems from the book. Now, after many years of being in print, I’ve released a similar audio collection for Eagle’s Mead, with 27 tracks and running over an hour in length. And it’s available to preview and purchase on Bandcamp.

It’s an important milestone, because this is the only electronic release associated with it. The Eagle’s Mead book has only ever been released in a single hardcover edition—no paperback, kindle, pdf, or epub whatsoever. (Contrasting VPfHR, which is in both hardcover and paperback, and has been released in epub, kindle, and pdf—and with that audio collection.)

Check it out. If you’ve never read my Eagle’s Mead, this’ll be your first opportunity to experience many of the poems from that book. Like in the book itself, you’ll find a wide variety of poems about runes, magic, and esotericism. And it includes audio recordings of my modern poetic renderings of the ancient rune poems (OERP, OIRP, ONRP) and the Hávamál verses about Odin’s winning of the runes.

Enjoy!

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/

American Runes for American Patriots.
Join the 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. 😉