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In this wide-ranging yet concise study, Alain de Benoist brings his incisive intelligence and wide erudition to bear on the fiercely debated subject of the mysterious origin and practical and magical functions of runes, providing the reader with a thorough grounding in the potential origin points and evolutions of the Fuþark.

Runes and the Origins of Writing carries its reader on an archaeological and anthropological journey through an enigmatic past, giving to layman and academic alike unique insight into the history of this archaic script, and others like it.

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Table of Contents

Part I

  • Writing and Oral Tradition
  • Runic Writing
  • The Characteristics of Fuþark
  • Runic Inscriptions
  • The Oldest Inscriptions
  • Inscriptions on Wood
  • The Origin Issue
  • The Latin Theory
  • The Greek Theory
  • The North Italic Theory
  • The Contribution of Linguistics
  • Provisional Appraisal

Part II

  • Attempts at Explanation
  • Symbols and “Pre-Writings”
  • The Debate On “Magic”
  • The Word “Rune”
  • Divination and Oracular Use
  • “Magic” Vocabulary
  • Óðinn and the “Divine Origin” of the Runes
  • Runic Magic in Sagas — The Runesmith

Part III

  • The Three Phases of the Moon
  • Eight and Nine
  • The Norns, the Parcae and the Moirai
  • The Homology Between Day and Year
  • The Rune for The Word “Year”
  • Asterisms and Constellations

Part IV

  • “Phoinika Grammata”
  • From the Phoenicians to the Greeks
  • Before the Phoenicians
  • The Phoenician Alphabet
  • The Sea Peoples
  • From the Philistines to the Phoenicians
  • The Etruscans
  • From Etruscan to Latin
  • Index
Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist is the leading thinker behind the European ‘New Right’ movement, a metapolitical school of thought he helped found in France in 1968 with the establishment of GRECE (Research and Study Group for European Civilisation). To this day, he remains its primary representative, even while rejecting the label ‘New Right’ since he considers himself to fall outside the Left/Right dichotomy. He lives in Paris and continues to write and give lectures and interviews. Arktos has previously published his books The Problem of Democracy (2011), Beyond Human Rights (2011), Manifesto for a European Renaissance (2012), Carl Schmitt Today (2013), On the Brink of the Abyss (2015), The Indo-Europeans (2016), View from the Right (2017), and Runes and the Origins of Writing (2018). (Go to author page)

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