I laughed so hard at your “fuck it I’ll just make another mark here. No one around here can read it anyway” 😂 Perfectly said

Doing magik without knowledge is worse karma than they know , Your Knowledge bro is real value , thank you

I discovered Bind Runes in a book on Northern Magic and always thought 'this is just a way of carving someone's initials.' Apart from Rune Reading I always thought of Runes as a way of spelling, not necessarily symbols. But what I'm learning lately is the magical use of these things came 2 centuries after the Viking Age. Hell, I got a Rune Binding decoration a good friend gave me, it is much treasured and is displayed in my room.

Love your no BS and no cringe content.

I totally agree, in no way am I an expert in runes but I do have an understanding, and hope to exspand my knowledge. The recent popularity in "Bind Runes" and the meanings of the new Runes I don't trust. I have a similar view that the old Pagan Runes were at times written in short hand or abbreviation, or a type of rune like sigil, as a sigil is very personal only the practitioner will truly know what it means. Thankyou for your content.

This lighting really makes your blue eyes pop! 🤙🏽

Personally I feel bind runes were sometimes used for magic. But I also feel there was little if any standardization to the practice. So each carver essentially made up their own binds & what meaning/effect it was to have. If true this also would make deciphering someone's bind rune essentially impossible & this the bind rune's magic couldn't be undone.

@crushinnihilism

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Given thay we know pf the multiplicity of Gods worshipped by the peoples of germania its fair to assume magical practices varied as well

"Custom bindrunes" is a business model lol. Also it's weird that you mentioned the Undley bracteate. I recently bought a replica (silver rather than gold), and now I keep seeing references to it.

Aww, no honorable mention of the Bluetooth logo? 😅

@harry554

Жыл бұрын

He’s covered this in previous videos but good point

@robgau2501

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HARALD! The wireless.

@LisaAnn777

Жыл бұрын

It's a well known historical fact the ancient Norse invented wireless headsets.

@gcanaday1

11 ай бұрын

@@LisaAnn777 inter-ship comms, they were used for keeping score in drinking games.

@valentinoesparza2399

24 күн бұрын

@@robgau2501YYEEEEESSAS😂

Every time I do a rune reading and hagalaz shows up. I know a storm is coming.

Bind runes as a practicality of the time makes sense

Your channel is great! Thanks for all you do!

Great video! Love all the hard work you put into these videos and leading me down research rabbit holes. Thank you!

I was happy to see Mr. Flowers work in your recommended books. Futhark has been a major source of knowledge for me personally

@erikhoff5010

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It has been very important and fulfilling for me too. Skal

@neonflowersofficial

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Thank you so much for sharing. I see these all the time on Facebook in many groups. I always appreciate your knowledge.

I'm so glad your channel popped up on my feed. Very informative. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you've acquired.

One of my favorite videos you've made. Good topic. It's been a passion pursuit of mine since a wee lad to memorize the runes and their meaning. Very fascinating and misunderstood meaning and script.

I love your term, cring pagans. Reminds me of several people I've met in the past.

Reading a fantastic book on Icelandic grimoires and bind runes. I am conflicted about using them as the grimoire warns around impact, etc, if the individual believes in that, etc. So unless i know enough about something, i avoid meddling. This video as usual is very informative . Thank you

@erikhoff5010

Жыл бұрын

Check out Egil's saga and why you should know what you are doing.

@corvusscottwilliams4751

10 ай бұрын

Maybe look into creating magical sigils instead.

...Thanks for the post of the subject. Absolutely appreciated.

I think bindrunes were sometimes used as like.. a way to put a meaning into a compact "spell" sort of. Perhaps not out of actual magic belief, but more like the way your grandma pressed some money into your hand to buy some candy, when you were little. A well meaning gesture. So yes i suppose a wedding gift or whatever could have bindrunes into it to give the object meaning. Like an abreviation of the couples names, or their first letters in combination with a rune that belongs to a deity, for specific wishes. Perhaps like this.

I have one Rune my Grandmother taught me from Gotland. It was passed down through the family. It doubles as a family identifier or Clan or tribe identifier, choose whatever descriptive you want to use, and a seal of power. If you wanted to imbue power or energy into an object, you performed a ritual and inscribed or carved the symbol into that object. My Great-grandmother told me that it was forbidden in the past on pain of death to use or produce it after Christianity was forced upon us. It was a symbol or rune used by my Berserker Ancestors that was thought to be Evil and Black Magic, so the Christians on the Island wiped it out from existence and outlawed it. I believe that one day they will find it on something. I can draw it and remember it because I kind of have a photographic memory. I remember images I have seen and things I have personally experienced. She drew it only once for me and then abruptly burned the paper.She said it was bad luck or taboo for us to reproduce it now as Christian's. She only did it because it is part of my family history. She also told me that our family once had relatives on Faroe Island. Maybe the rune will be found there also.

Ty for continuing these great informational videos my friend I hope you are well 😎 ✌️ ❤

Just a funny thought. It's runic cursive. At least that's what popped in my head when did you the "they can't read it anyway" bit. I loved this thank you

The 4 "A" runes on the stave are used to call on Odin, as a blessing or a protection for a follower of Odin. The "A" rune being the 4th rune of the Elder Futhark and meaning God or Mouth.

Love these videos brother!

Thanks for sharing this! Very well presented.

Thanks for the information and the laughs.

People tend to think of Norse magic and Icelandic magic as the same thing, and you also multiple uses of bind runes to further confuse people who are new to the subject. The stave type bind runes derived largely from the Keys of Solomon, if I remember correctly, and later gained use in sigil magic. It's interesting to see that there was a tendency to paganize the Judeo-Christian grimoires. Although many of those grimoire concepts originally came from the Persian and Greco-Egyptian sources, so it's not the first time the material was readopted. I have no explanation for the modern pseudo-magical kind of bind runes though. It just seems like misunderstood information passed along the internet. The first time I saw them was over ten years ago on a Swedish jewelry website.

3:07 and here we see one of the first recorded crossword puzzle’s. It was said that one of the ways odin predicted the future was to turn the wood of yggdrasil into paper and use it to make a news paper with prophecies in the form of articles. These news papers would contain crossword puzzle’s like this one for odin to test the wisdom he had gathered on his travels.

Nicely said. Except in a few instances, bindrunes are historically usually a space-saving device. The same applies to some single runes, such as "maður". Thanks for mentioning my book in your references (second one down).

I was curious what is the greeting you say in the beginning of all your videos? thanks for all the content you create. keep up the excellent work sir.

Your first two book recommendations I totally agree with, but I would caution anyone concerning flowers/thorsson, same guy by the way. Just do a little research and you will understand my misgivings on this man.

Actually, this is really an educational video, on a high scale..well done 👍👍👍

the tripple tyr rune could be the equivilant of the tridentis representing among many things the past, present and future and by Tyr granting one key to victory in all three dimentions of creation. The number three is also important in all religions. Almost alwyas in one way or the other representing wholeness

You have an amazing and beautiful country . I would love to visit some day. We’re glad you’re here in the USA as well and Inhave learned a tremendous about from you !! Hail to you sir 🍺

You tell us that you like the Bronz age in Norway best. Is this where the Norse learned to do the intricate metal work and engraving that we see from the Viking era?

Great information

Keep the great stuff going. Runes are definitely plagued by misinformation and cringe. For me, and my use with the runes, it's quite personal. I even hesitate sometimes to perform a reading with/on my wife. Nothing really bad, just that she really just thinks they are cool, a face value appreciation if that makes sense. And I liked what you said in a previous video, "make your own!" Yes!

Intention or context is everything. That's why something should be shared with different experts. Human history always needs to be preserved by our society.

I think a good example would be. How W was originally VV

@alicelarsson165

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Precisely. Or the powerful nordic bind-bókstafir: å ä ö One needs to be very careful when writing out those, or they shallt bring misfortune and ruin thine harvests, or something.

If I understand you correctly bind ruins are not necessarily in line, like OGAM which is usually written in the corner of a stone. They could possibly be a postscript?

This explains a lot of why me trying to research Bind runes still left me confused and lost

Very interesting. Personally I don't dabble with rune too much! I don't want to mess with things I don't fully understand; and I don't really trust anyone these days.

Good video ⚔️

I've tried to explain this to people many times yet they try and use examples from long after the christianization to point to magical uses of bind runes. Or looking at spell inscriptions that use them as evidence of the bindrune itself being magical. Hel there are some examples from the viking age and earlier of rune staves, very similar to ogham, yet those are still inscriptions and though sometimes they are spells that's not the same thing as the "Binderunes" people think of. Magical inscriptions don't always even use bindrunes.

As with any language, I question what was the inspiration for the design. What instrument of form does it model itself after? The lines and curves of a tree or the shape of bones, for example? Is it a conscious expression of an unconscious or not easily observable force such as electrical energy? Without the primary source of reference, it is challenging to understand the original intent of a crafted communication form. 5:33 - its symbolic of compression technology which is an essential element of nature:

The only bindrune I've ever made was FYR. Merging the AngloSaxon word for fire. Simply because I put my staff in a fire lol It also kinda looks cool in AngloSaxon futhorc.

Whenever I'm asked if I will "do a reading" for someone I like to take out my rune pouch, pull each rune one by one, and name them as I set them down on my cloth. Then I say "There, I have read you the runes." The phrase "Rotlust tre fell" sticks with me. I know enough about the runes to lay them out, speak their names and meditate on them a bit, but I'm not doing some mystical reading, I am just thinking about my culture a bit and making time for personal reflection. My personal rune is simply the three that make up the phonetic spelling of my nickname, and I chose it for no better reason than they looked good overlaid. That said, if someone wants to go to some arts festival mystic and pay to have chips of burned wood laid out in front of them while they get an ear full of some bitching wisdom straight from the gods, hey it's their money. Maybe they'll actually take an interest and do some real research later, I don't know.

What is lost here is the ORLOG (web of destiny / URD / WYRD) from which all the runes are 'cut'. The futharks all drew from the Norse 'sacred geo' of the time(less)

you give all us norse/germanic men wisdom and courage of our ancestors! which now is giving me more and more confidence to spit game at every hottie I see. I cherish all women, but damn is out hard to find the right one for the right scenario.. me personally im burnt out on relationships, I just need that 10/10 viking/scythian queen (s)x3 to lead me to my bed chambers 4 days out of the week and id be happy.. and the only way to do that is to throw all the lines out there even if you lose a battle.. you live to continue the war and eventually god willing ill find my 3 queens be whatever ethnicity instead of money grubbing fast-food eating booster jabbing two faced trolls.. I like big troll butts and I can not lie

I have a question that i figure you are the right guy to ask. I've been researching the relation between different cultures, and how the names of many gods came from one original indo-european word, which then shifted as language developed; Indo-European Dyēus became Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, and Germanic Tiwaz (Tyr). My question is how tyr shifted from the God of the Sky and Chief God, to the God of War, and how odin became seen as the chief god rather than the original, Tyr?

@rickardt1222

4 ай бұрын

I believe that Teiwaz was the original Chief God / Creator God. The great creator god was often in many cultures the god of law and justice. Odin means "the raging one" symbolizes ecstasy. When the Germanic tribes came into a long period of fighting with the Roman Empire, I believe that they sought need to prioritize Odin over Tyr since they needed the war spirit more than law/justice. And by the time when Christian scholars started to write about Germanic religion, Odin had overshadowed Tyr. This is just my opinion tho :)

There was a bracteate found with bind runes which implied magical purposes, i believe it was from the 5th century, not the new find with Odins Man, I think the Undley one

is there a european shop for your norse flag as well?

Cool

Talking about B***s""" how about a video about the use of incense, are there any historical records of incense being used? So much bull online about white sage etc it would be great to hear your perspective. Great video as always.

You mentioned that the link to the wand would be in the description, but I don't quite see it. Anybody have it?

I recently thought about the practice of Brahmacharya in hinduism. So you think there is a similar idea in germanic/ Norse tradition?

I can agree that the popularity of bind runes today are not reflective of their use in ancient pagan religion. I might suggest though, that bind runes (if they were used often) were more personal and probably used rarely, as you mentioned, to maybe put a lot of meaning onto a little bit of space, like a talisman or a stone to be carried or worn by a person. I have no proof of this, it is only an opinion of mine based mostly on the idea that the absence of evidence does not necessarily equate to the evidence of absence. I might go farther and say that even if you are completely correct, that would not detract from an evolution of a faith in modern times to "use old technology in a new way." So, while I'm willing to accept that bind runes may not have been a staple of ancient pagans, I would posit that the concept of bind runes could be utilized appropriately today through proper knowledge of the runes as well as proper direction of intention by the user. Your points were very good and you presented well. Thank you for doing so much research and speaking from a place of knowledge about these things.

Can you tell me anything about the heavner runes in Oklahoma

I wonder, could the bind runes with the non words be sounds to be made in. a chant?

Your fucken awesome brother

Gagaga reminds me of a laugh lol like Mr. Krabs.

Nine Naud bindes and that make it intersting when discussing Uthark och Futhark like Sigurd Agrell. And if using Uthark the Naud is nine. hmm.

My favorite one is on a stone in Väringe sweden sö 133

Do you have any idea where I can find Saxon runes I can’t find hardly anything on them

The letters similar in both futark's as well in the latin alphabet are B.R.I.

U-tell-em!!!!

Is it true that places in Sweden have had things unearthed and they are disposed of

Yeah Denmark. My mom sent me to Denmark for a like 2 months when I was 12 with her friend. It was like maybe 87 or 88 ish. Do you know a town if you said it in English it would sound like Holtbek I that’s the word I remember but I can’t find it on a map. So maybe I’m not remembering it right. The little mermaid statue is there. I met James Darren and his wife Evy Daren they were old movie stars from a long time ago because that was my mom’s friends aunt and uncle and the aunt was from there their last name was jenson. Then I went to Copenhagen and saw all the things there and went tivoli I remember a lot of the things like that spiral staircase around that tall like tower thing and everything was copper. And all the dairy stuff like yoghurt and ice cream there’s no comparison I’ve tried to find out why but haven’t even heard anyone mention it. If we could have that stuff shipped over here or figure out how to make it like that you’d make a killing nobody would go anywhere else for ice cream. And they have a lot of good food and that bread, it’s black. It was hard to get used to but I finally did and I’ll bet that’s so much more healthy but I doubt you can even buy the ingredients to make it here. Anyway, I was too young then and homesick, but I wish I could go again now. Oh and we went to that old village with the straw roofs or maybe there was like grass on the roofs it was little thatched huts. I was too young to appreciate it. I wish I could find the girl I stayed with in Copenhagen her name was Christina she spoke perfect English didn’t have an accent like you. But not sure if her last name was jenson too or not. Sorry I just never hear anything about Denmark let alone anybody that’s been there, so I got a little excited. It may have changed a lot since then it sure has here. lol do you know that town? I walked to the water everyday and played with jellyfish there was a long pier and the little mermaid was there around where it curved. Anyway, that’s awesome. Do you live here now or are you still in Denmark. I remember a few sentences in danish do you want to go to the store and to town they’re almost the same. And can still count to 12 thirty some years later lol. It was alot different for sure.

Runes are just an alphabet, and like you said, bound runes are just two letters put together for whatever reason. Like many other scripts, roman/latin included, futhark can be used to write many non-magic and magical things alike. Nothing more, nothing less. imho

Bindrunes are used as sigils in old Germanic magic. I've had varying success with them, but since they are language dependant, you'd damn well better know what you're asking for, and who you're asking it from.

Hello, just a quick question please, do you know why the runes were dropped in favor of latin alphabet? Alphabet evolution: Egyptian hieroglyphs -> Proto Sinai (Egypt writing system) -> Phoenician(modern Lebanon) -> Greek alphabet (added vowels - Cyrillic alphabet ) -> Latin -> Modern European languages but it started in Egypt it seems. Europe is linked to Egypt. Why were runes dropped in nordic countries/Germany in favor of Egyptian writing, do you know?

I'm kind of torn on the subject. I mean a living religion should never be static. So there's classic use and there's how people use them now? And I love that Anglo Saxon knife sheath!!!

I got my genealogy tables from a relative in Finland who has been a genealogist for over 30 years. My ansesters about 25or so generations back were Viking kings and princes gamie Olaf and the Bure kinship which blended into the forest Finns and lapplander Sami people then Finnish then moved ro america where i was taught i was full blooded Finnish..

@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra

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My ancestors were King Louis the 14th and Marie Antoinette, along with a gazillion other people.

Muito bom

How do the anglosaxon runes relate to the story of runes?

Madame pamita, runes in magic, Hot to use runes in spells

I just love how your (probably very realistic) scenario of "f*ck it, let's safe some space" is in contrast to the esoteric bs you can find on social media 😂

i just started your video. and lemme say... bindrunes? thankful for my danish heritage cause runic language is still being discovered and should be left to experts. theres nothing wrong with using english if thats what you speak currently... dont have to know runic to prove nordic heritage.. but again my family looks and has danish heirlooms and stuff

Unrelated to this video but have you considered creating a rumble channel? Thank you as always for the awesome videos and the sources.

Maybe they are slang of the time. Imagine someone 600 years from now trying to understand the strange symbology we use right now.

@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra

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Graffitti.

I actually created some bindrunes for all þe colours , but þese are my own creations, based upon artistic ambitions, I don't claim it to be historical. Þough we could say þat we are capable to add some culture into þe runes by ourselves, who says culture cannot be added upon? Þen again, we probably have to show, we are worþy to inherit what our ancestors left to us.

City of Breza Bosnie and Herzegovina you can find runes..

Vikings now of Pan, Druid order the Slavic warriors. Do not mess with these that have a Vojvoda. Trade and exchange is ok.

Sorry if this sounds totally irrelevant but Apparently our Indra influenced Odin, is that true?

@Schmorgus

Жыл бұрын

Just wondering, why you think Indra "influenced" Odin?

@gcanaday1

Жыл бұрын

Indra is much closer to Thór.

@Azrael1st

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they just have similar traits it sounds like. I thought there was some connection between Indians and Scandinavia. my bad

@Azrael1st

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@@SchmorgusI’m really interested in the indo European’s

@Azrael1st

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@@gcanaday1ahh so it was Thor. Not Odin lol.

WodansVolk: kzread.infoDelebC18Bjg?feature=share

Might be a daft question but ...... can runes be translated to the English alphabet ?

Tyr rune probably means victory because it looks like a sword.

@rickardt1222

4 ай бұрын

More like a spear, lets be honest.

I guess we can only guess what the true meaning of runes are.

@Akkolon

Жыл бұрын

no, we know what they are. They are letters representing sounds. Among others Jackson Crawford has extensive videos explaining how runes where used, where they come from and what sounds they represent.

@shadowdragon3521

Жыл бұрын

@@Akkolon If you watched the video, he also mentioned that runes are used for magical purposes at 7:06 You can experiment with applying runes in magic to get a better idea if you believe in that sort of thing.

@Akkolon

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@@shadowdragon3521 ofc I saw the video and the mentioning of the limited use for what we could perceive as magical use but it still a bit of a stretch to say "I guess we can only guess what the true meaning of runes are" when we clearly do know.

11:25 True words. How's the line in Egil Saga: _Skalat mandr rúnar rista. Nema rada vel kunni._

Do you think less wealthy Germanic warriors would wear padded wool or leather armor?

Vikings needed Dremel tools. lol

The Roman's really messed up Human spirituality. The theory I have is that if we meditate enough resting against a Oak tree We might be able to retrieve the true meaning. I believe this is why we Druids never wrote anything down. I have little epiphanies all the time. The worst we can do is to not try.

the shaman says magic is real,do we hate the shaman?

We wuz Vikangs and sheeeeet!

Runes and magic are particularly overblown to the point of absurdity. They are magic if you can write and convey a message to someone else and they can read it, kinda like the Latin letters we use today. Any alphabet could be used. If you are illiterate any letter is nothing more than an indecipherable symbol.

Ya know, we can invent new things, right? As long as it makes sense and we admit we made it up, who cares? We should create new things.

@ThorSonOfOdin85

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Thats not how ancient magic and symbolism works.They built on strong foundation. They are layered on top of each other which makes it whole. drawing and making up a symbol and saying this will gives you luck thats not how magic works, becasue beliefe is not enough for that. Magic and its symbols built on energie sources and hasve to be preciese. not gonna sugar code this for you but thats how the neo cringe pagans operates today. Making up symbols and they dont have any foudnational clue about the very source of power which should be added to the symbol in order to funcion. but thats also complex, becasue in order to make it work, certen type of energies, needs to be channeled, and locked inside of the symbol or object. thats called magic crafting which is highly dangerous for those who didnt have any proper initiations to the "craft" In oderd to achieve that people who wants to invent new things in an actual funcioning ways which effects aour very reality they need a deep and high knowledge about every aspect of magic, rituals, etc in order to reach your goal with your invented "things". It is a very complex system which is cannot be skipped. including the steps what you have to take as well. it is a slow and time consuming process and to be fair in 99% even one life is not enough to get to that level.

@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht

Жыл бұрын

As long as we respect þe original to a certain degree, mind you.

I am convinced those are sigils, people definitely did not came up with the concept just once.

avoid Flowers ...