• Emulate Odin

    Our high god, Odin, won the runes and poetry through nine nights on the world tree. Through the nine lessons of this course, you, too, can win the runes and poetry—the two supreme tools for making English sacred again.

  • Runes & Poetry

    American Runes and Alliterative Poetry belong together, like peanut butter & jelly, gin & tonic, or bacon & eggs. Find out why, and enhance your rituals and magic, with their powers combined!

  • Authentic Rune Writing

    Write exactly like an ancient runemaster, using a three-step process with runes linked to your living language. It's possible once again, for the first time in centuries!

Course curriculum

    1. How to Use This Platform

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    2. Overview from American Futharch Website

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    3. Who Should Take This Course?

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    4. Syllabus

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    5. Preview: Sounds and Basics of the American Futharch Runes

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    6. Free Sample on Rune Writing and Poetry with a Bonus File

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    7. Before We Begin...

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    1. Lesson 1: Phonology and American Futharch Runes

    2. Exercise 1: Read and Write in Runes

    3. Lesson 2: Questions, Answers, and Review #1

    1. Lesson 3: Stress, Parts of Speech, and Basic Alliteration (Learning to Walk)

    2. Exercise 2: Grammar of Poetry and Runes

    3. Lesson 4: Questions, Answers, and Review #2

    1. Lesson 5: Putting Together an Alliterative Long Line (Learning to Run)

    2. Exercise 3: Long Lines and Runic Alliteration

    3. Lesson 6: Questions, Answers, and Review #3

    1. Lesson 7: Full-Stanza Poems (Learning to Fly)

    2. Exercise 4: Stanzas and Advanced Alliteration

    3. Lesson 8: Questions, Answers, and Review #4

    1. Lesson 9: Rituals of the Runes and the Mead

About this course

  • $499.00
  • Nine Lessons
  • Exercises with Instructor Feedback
  • Fall Semester 2024

Important Details about the Course

  • This course uses the revolutionary new American Futharch for its runic system. If you’ve arrived here without encountering the American Futharch before, please look over Eirik’s American Futharch website (link at bottom of page) before enrolling.

  • This isn’t merely a course for learning cool things—it’s a course for doing cool things, namely writing runes & poetry.

  • This is a cohort course running from September 25 to December 18. Enrollment for the semester is now closed.

  • Four pre-recorded teaching lessons + four Q&A review lessons + one final special lesson.

  • Features four sets of runic exercises for which Eirik provides individual feedback!

  • Join the free preview for all of the "Welcome to the Course" items, including the syllabus, a rune lore preview, a sample video, and a free printable set of rune tiles.

Instructor

Eirik Westcoat

Rune-Master and PhD

Eirik Westcoat is a Master in the Rune-Gild and a long-time poet in traditional skaldic alliterative meters. He holds a PhD from the University of Iceland with a dissertation on kraftaskalds, who are poets in post-medieval Icelandic folktales who do magic through improvised poetry. Eirik’s other research interests include mythology, Old Norse religion, runes, magic, and esotericism. He has a blog as “The Skaldic Eagle” and several books of heathen poetry in print. These include his Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites (2017) and Eagle’s Mead (2019), as well as the anthology Odin’s Brew: Voices from the Heathen Northeast (2019) featuring nine creative writers and artists from the ECT community, which he co-edited with Ned Bates.

Enrollment is Closed for the Semester!