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New Course Launch: American Rune Writing

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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!

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!

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!

Introducing the American Futharch and its Website

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Want to write exactly like an ancient runemaster? It hasn’t been possible, until now. 

I’ve got some things to say about that, so read on if you like, or you can jump ahead and see the website at https://americanfutharch.com if you prefer. But also read on nonetheless for the what, why, and how.

Ever try writing modern English with runes? Clunky, isn’t it? And that’s regardless of whether you’re using the Elder Futhark or the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. Inevitably, most such writing attempts inevitably cheat at some point by treating the runes as an alphabet, doing a “what rune can stand for such-and-such letter” kind of approach.

That’s not how the first ancient runemasters wrote in runes. Around the start of the Common Era (or somewhat before), writing in runes meant the Proto-Germanic language with Elder Futhark runes. And these three steps:

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