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The Best of the Rune Singers: Elias Lönnrot
Paula Ivaska Robbins
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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The Best of the Rune-Singers: based on the life of Elias L nnrot, the Compiler of the Finnish National Epic, The Kalevala Paula Ivaska Robbins The book begins with a prologue explaining the significance of The Kalevala to the development of Finnish as a literary language, the eventual independence of Finland from the Russian Empire, and the emergence of Finland in the twenty-first century as one of the most prosperous and successful countries in the world, the homeland of four Nobel prize winners, and an acknowledged leader in technology and education. This work of creative nonfiction follows the life of Elias L nnrot from his childhood as a son of a poor country tailor, his education in bo and Helsinki supported by many scholarships, and his relationship with the wealthy and cosmopolitan T rngren family who encouraged and supported his dream of collecting the ancient Finnish folk poetry. The story focuses on the period from 1828 to 1845, when L nnrot traveled to eastern and northern Finland, Lapland, and Russian Karelia on foot, on skis, by rowboat, on horseback, and by sledge searching out the singers and wise men, possessors of magical powers, who would sing the ancient folk poetry of the Finnish people. One scholar has estimated that his travels over fifteen years took him a distance equivalent to that from Helsinki to the South Pole. L nnrot became the District Medical Officer for a large area based in rural Kaajani, near the border of Russian Karelia, fighting epidemics of cholera and typhoid. The post enabled him to combine his medical work with the goal of collecting the poems of the peasants whom he served. An epidemic of typhoid raged through the region for which L nnrot was responsible, and, overworked, he too contracts the disease. His landlady, a middle-aged widow, nurses him back to health. She becomes his faithful housekeeper, and he grows dependent upon her for many of his physical needs, including sexual. L nnrot was encouraged and financially supported in his travels and writing by a group of intellectuals in Helsinki that became, in 1831, the Finnish Literature Society (Suomen Kansallis Seura). Its aim was "'to propagate more exact notions of the country and its history, to work for the cultivation of the Finnish language and to bring to birth in this language a literature for both the educated classes and the people.'" "Language being the foundation of nationality, a national literature is not possible without a national language." During his travels L nnrot met many fascinating characters and had several frightening adventures. The reader will learn much about the customs and religious beliefs of the rural Karelian peasants. Aarne Anttila, L nnrot's first biographer, tells us that, as a student and during the period of his travels, L nnrot was opposed to religion, drank alcohol often to excess, gambled, and carried on several affairs with women. Yet, at age 47, in 1849, L nnrot married the 26-year-old Maria Piponius, an uneducated housekeeper who was a fervent Pietist. They raised a family and he spent his later years writing hymns. This abrupt change in his life is accounted for by a fictional dramatic episode in which L nnrot breaks the vow that he made when he became a physician. Because of his guilt, he experiences a deep depression during an extended unsuccessful collecting trip to Lapland. After a fictional meeting with the Pietist pastor, Lars Levi Laestadius, during his journey, he returns to beg forgiveness from his friend Carl Saxa, a Lutheran clergyman, and converts to Pietism. Dr. Raija Maijamaa, Senior Research Associate at The Finnish Literature Society and the current biographer of L nnrot, read and critiqued my manuscript and writes, "You have written a fascinating work of creative writing, not only a wonderful piece of documentation, still. Thank you Be proud of the work, which shows American readers such an imaginative story from Finnish history."
Diana Cork e le Rune Segrete
Monica Virginio
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Diana Cork una predestinata. Da secoli, in una dimensione parallela a quella terrestre, un popolo attende l'arrivo di una ragazza che nel giorno del suo quindicesimo compleanno riceva in dono un'antica spilla. Il popolo dei Druidi, che la storia crede scomparso, riuscito a sopravvivere in un mondo parallelo, tecnologicamente molto avanzato e al contempo fedele alla tradizione leggendaria e mitologica della cultura celtica. A minacciare la sua esistenza pacifica e armoniosa, il ritorno dei nemici di sempre, i Fomori. Diana, inconsapevole incarnazione di una profezia, all'et di quindici anni, si ritrova improvvisamente in un'altra dimensione temporale e spaziale, nel mondo parallelo druidico. qui che ha inizio il suo compito, sconfiggere il nemico che minaccia i Druidi, e il suo viaggio di conoscenza. In un crescendo di suspense e rivelazioni, Diana imparer a vedere meglio le cose attraverso la Seconda Vista, capir come ascoltare il passato, e come leggere la memoria degli oggetti. Ogni incontro le aprir gli occhi sulle proprie origini e sulla propria natura, ogni prova della straordinaria avventura cui destinata le insegner a usare capacit e poteri insospettati, e le dar l'occasione di riscattarsi dalla proverbiale goffaggine per cui tutti sulla terra la conoscono e la prendono in giro. Il viaggio di Diana nel mondo dei Druidi, la storia di una ragazza alla scoperta di s , e di un nuovo modo di guardare le cose, in un mondo che sembra perfetto, e cela in realt qualcosa di mostruoso. Un viaggio che si muove tra passato e futuro, tra personaggi storici e grandi sapienti, tra alchimisti e celebri pittori, in un universo di segreti e arcani da svelare. Chi sono, ad esempio, le misteriose creature dei quadri di Hieronymus Bosch? Sono frutto della sua fantasia o l'oscuro pittore fiammingo vissuto tra il XV e il XVI secolo ha dipinto qualcosa che ha visto con i propri occhi?
This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw materials with which the poet was working. The introduction offers a thorough discussion of the origin, development, and uses of runes before proceeding to the close examination of text, language, literary sources, style, and themes of the poem. Following the text and translation of the poem proper, detailed explanatory notes pay particular attention to the background of each individual rune and rune name, and the appendixes provide analogous material to assist in setting the poet's achievement into the runic context. Since many of the sources necessary for an accurate assessement of the Old English Rune Poem are written in foreign or dead languages, modern English translations have been provided throughout to ensure that the poem will be accessible to students as well as to professional medievalists. (McMaster Old English Studies and Texts 2)
Personality Runes: A Rune Guide For Personality Readings
Jean Hopkins
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Asatru Book of Days: Rune Edition
Bryan Wilton
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Shadows Past: A Rune Alexander Short. Book 5.5 of the Rune Alexander Series.
Laken Cane
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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This in-depth primer of the magic of the Northern Way introduces the major concepts and practices of Gothic or Germanic magic. English, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish peoples are all directly descended from this ancient Germanic cultural stock. According to author Edred Thorsson, if you are interested in living a holistic life with unity of body-mind-spirit, a key to knowing your spiritual heritage is found in the heritage of your body-in the natural features which you have inherited from your distant ancestors. Most readers of this book already "speak the language" of the Teutonic tradition. Northern Magic contains material that has never before been discussed in a practical way. This book outlines the ways of Northern magic and the character of the Northern magician. It explores the theories of traditional Northern psychology (or the lore of the soul) in some depth, as well as the religious tradition of the Troth and the whole Germanic theology. The remaining chapters make up a series of "mini-grimoires" on four basic magical techniques in the Northern Way: Younger Futhark rune magic, Icelandic galdor staves, Pennsylvania hex signs, and "seith" (or shamanism). This is an excellent overview of the Teutonic tradition that will interest neophytes as well as long-time travelers along the Northern Way. Contains four complete handbooks of magical practice in one Gives practical instructions on how to carve runes and make hex-signs Provides the history of the Northern Renaissance Outlines the Germanic Gods and Goddesses
Starfinder Adventure Path: The Rune Drive Gambit (Against the Aeon Throne 3 of 3)
Larry Wilhelm
Paizo Publishing, LLC
2018
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The heroes must infiltrate a secluded Azlanti science facility and liberate the captive scientists forced to study an experimental starship drive to keep it out of their enemies' hands. They soon learn of the device's reality-warping power first-hand, but standing in their way is the dastardly Azlanti noble who has orchestrated the entire plot! “The Rune Drive Gambit” is a Starfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for four 5th-level characters by Larry Wilhelm. The adventure concludes the Against the Aeon Throne Adventure Path, a 3-part, monthly campaign in which players visit and explore some of the worlds of the sinister Azlanti Star Empire. It also includes advice for how to continue the campaign, a detailed exploration of the peacekeeping organization known as the Stewards, and a selection of new monsters from alien worlds. Each monthly full-color softcover Starfinder Adventure Path volume contains a new installment of a series of interconnected science-fantasy quests that together create a fully developed plot of sweeping scale and epic challenges. Each 64-page volume of the Starfinder Adventure Path also contains in-depth articles that detail and expand the Starfinder campaign setting and provide new rules, a host of exciting new monsters and alien races, a new planet to explore and starship to pilot, and more!
Everybody Wants to Rune the World: A Happily Everlasting World Novel
Mandy M. Roth
Independently Published
2019
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Helistra, daughter of Speedwell who is one of four Forestalls who tend the wellbeing of the forests, marries Grimstone, a fellow Forestall. She becomes a mother when their son is born, Tomin. But when Tomin is being taught the ways of the forest, a knowledge she has been denied, a jealousy arises within Helistra, feeding an evil that has always lurked deep inside her that turns into a hatred that sees her kill Grimstone with his own Rune Staff! As she strikes, she breaks the rune staff leaving a piece lodged inside of Grimstone. An explosion of white light turns him into stone and makes Helistra disappear. Years pass by as Helistra grooms the broken rune staff in the dark evil that has consumed her. Her poisoned mind will not rest until the forests and its keepers are totally destroyed! So the paths of conflict and destiny entwine as Speedwell pursues his daughter to make Grimstones broken rune staff whole again to stop her evil, but how and at what cost?
IL MONDO SARDO DI IRENE SALIDU Irene Salidu una perla vera, una goccia di cristallo racchiusa in una valva non visibile ai pi . E come lei tutto ci che sgorga dalle acque profonde della sua anima, impressa in punta di penna sulle pagine che la compongono. Non basta avere un cuore per sentirla, n una voce per leggerla. Servono occhi, a tratti ben aperti, altre volte soc-chiusi, in ascolto, verso il centro del petto dove urla il dolore di una vita negata.Irene non sa definirsi n scrittrice n poetessa, eppure prende per mano chi leggendo la sente e l'accompagna nel profondo segreto del suo essere, con uno stile originale dove pennellate di immagini, emozioni, profumi attraversano sia la prosa che la poesia. Il romanzo un cammino a ritroso che sconcerta e ac-carezza al tempo stesso, seguendo i rintocchi emotivi di un'anziana donna, Caterina, un'anima ridotta a granello di sabbia che risale il sentiero della vita fino al principio, quando era una roccia. un tornare dove tutto ha avuto inizio, un percorso guidato da una forza interiore, misteriosa calamita che la sprona a lasciare il suo sicuro giaciglio, sulle rive di un ruscello a lambire la valle dove l'anima a casa.Ma il passato non pu restare in silenzio, non sa scordare cosa accaduto, quando il cuore stato costretto a ritrarsi per continuare a "vivere" e negli occhi cresciuto il tormento."La valle delle Rune. Oi" un arcano richiamo oltre i confini del corpo. risveglio, impietoso ricordo che affiora. magia, ritorno, ritrovo, contatto, speranza, perdono. la storia di una donna partita da un mondo forse parallelo, dove l'uomo pu esprimere il proprio io, lontano da chi considera strano, diverso, pazzo colui che sa essere profondamente puro, in stretto contatto con le proprie emozioni e le forze della Natura. "La valle delle Rune. Oi" un urlo muto di occhi che si riconoscono, parole che si ascoltano, mani che si capiscono, emozioni che di-ventano consapevolezza, sfiorando il senso del viaggio. Come le Rune celtiche, piccole pietre simboliche usate per invocare le forze della Natura e degli antenati, questo romanzo pone domande che forse non avranno mai risposte, ma porteranno nuove domande, fino a toccare quel mistero che unisce gli uomini e le donne con l'Universo, in una culla senza tempo e senza spazio, dove scoprirsi pi umani, donando alla parte profonda di ogni intima sofferenza il perdono, privilegio di pochi. Ed il perdono l'essenza del viaggio, di una donna che dona se stessa per se stessa, per la bambina che negli occhi ha ancora l'alba, per la donna che ora pu tornare su Oi, col crepuscolo negli occhi. Entrambe Caterina, nessuna pi Caterina. Anna Frediani
Investigating the Kensington Rune Stone and Other Essays
Austin Mardon
Golden Meteorite Press
2012
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