Long Branches: Runes of the Younger Futhark Dan Pedersen First published in 1921 and

First published in 1921 and previously long out of print

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Annotations explicate the individual poems

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Long Branches: Runes of the Younger Futhark Dan Pedersen First published in 1921 and"Long Branches" places the Younger Futhark the runes of the Viking Age in their historical and cultural context. Neither magical guide nor academic treatise, "Long Branches" investigates the meanings of this set of sixteen runes used throughout Scandinavia. Author Ann Gr a Sheffield draws on the stories preserved in the Norse Eddas and sagas together with other evidence from Germanic literature, archaeology and linguistics to explore in depth what