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These are the books I found most useful/reliable. They are arranged alphabetically by title.
A few of these books are expensive/difficult to find. However, many university libraries carry
academic books; check out worldcat.org to see which libraries near you have the books you want
(world cat searches public as well as university libraries.) Many of the shorter articles I read
while researching my own book were found on Jstor.org. Most are free to read online.
And of course (shameless plug!) theres my book Anglo Saxon Runes: an Introduction, available
at Amazon.com
Other excellent online resources include:
Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, by J.R. Clark Hall
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31543?msg=welcome_stranger
Heritage, Culture and Lore of the Germanic Tribes; both the Poetic and Prose Eddas can be
found in both ON and modern English
http://www.voluspa.org/
Sacred Texts (covers a vast array of sacred texts from around the world)
www.sacred-texts.com
1 In nearly all academic texts, is the shape of both the runes ear and cweor. In occult texts cweor is
invariably drawn . Likewise, in occult texts we find the J-rune appearing only as in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc,
with no mention of the fact that is found only in late-period manuscripts. The usual shape of the J-rune from later
Anglo-Saxon epigraphical sources is ; in older inscriptions, it takes the form of from the Elder Futhark.
There are several theories about which alphabet/s the runes were (at least in part) modeled
after