The Younger Futhark

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The Younger Futhark: Viking Age Runes by Jacqui Alberts Lund & Joseph S. Hopkins

A no-nonsense guide to the Younger Futhark, the native alphabet of the Viking Age Scandinavians

When reading source material on Old Norse mythology, one encounters frequent mention of the runes, the unique and utterly fascinating alphabet of the Viking Age Scandinavians. Bearing practical and mystical messages, thousands of Viking Age runic inscriptions are known to us today and new discoveries are frequent. This beautiful edition provides an accessible but scholarship-focused introduction to the topic, featuring numerous illustrations by artist Jacqui Alberts Lund (alongside incredible archival photographs), discussion from philologist Joseph S. Hopkins, and an original introduction from noted academic John Lindow.

A UNIQUE & APPROACHABLE
EDITION INTENDED
FOR EVERYONE

The Younger Futhark: Viking Age Runes by Jacqui Alberts Lund & Joseph S. Hopkins

A no-nonsense guide to the Younger Futhark, the native alphabet of the Viking Age Scandinavians

When reading source material on Old Norse mythology, one encounters frequent mention of the runes, the unique and utterly fascinating alphabet of the Viking Age Scandinavians. Bearing practical and mystical messages, thousands of Viking Age runic inscriptions are known to us today and new discoveries are frequent. This beautiful edition provides an accessible but scholarship-focused introduction to the topic, featuring numerous illustrations by artist Jacqui Alberts Lund (alongside incredible archival photographs), discussion from philologist Joseph S. Hopkins, and an original introduction from noted academic John Lindow.

A UNIQUE & APPROACHABLE
EDITION INTENDED
FOR EVERYONE

  • Hyldyr
    160 pages. 5x7. Perfect binding. Printed in the USA.

    First Edition | ISBN-13: 9781966041139

 

From the publisher:

"Hyldyr is an independent and experimental publishing house based in Olympia, Washington state, USA. We combine the efforts of academics and artists to produce unique, beautiful, and scholarship-grounded publications.

There’s nothing else like usβ€”by design. Founded in late 2021 with our first publications arriving the summer of 2023, we designed Hyldyr to produce high-quality and extremely unique editions built to withstand scholastic scrutiny, to function as art objects, and to provide our readers with keys to hidden worlds.

We are heavily inspired by the works of English polymath William Morris, do-it-yourself movements, and our evergreen mountainous surroundings. We place a particular emphasis on historical linguistics and folklore studies and all of our publications in some way or another fall within the triangle of art, ecology, and folklore. We believe the world is a vast place full of wonders.

While we design our publications to be as approachable as possible, Hyldyr’s roots are academic: Hyldyr developed out of the web-based resource project Mimisbrunnr.info, itself an evolution of a student-led reading circle originally sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia for several years in the 2010s.

Quality and humanity come first at Hyldyr: We never use print-on-demand services, we explicitly forbid the use of generative AI in our publications, we sell our books only to independent bookstores and educational institutions (like museums), and we always aim to go a step beyond traditional publishing houses in everything we do."