This book is dedicated to the many who have assisted its progress: Freya Aswynn, the Odinic Rite, true Northerners everywhere, working as they are in their own separate ways to revitalise and retrieve the spirit of Ultima Thule. I am particularly grateful to Simon Sneath for scanning in many further ones. Some of the illustrations were tidied by Ian Read for inclusion in the first booklet edition. It appears here both expanded and updated. Thanks is also due to Element Books as some of the runic material is taken from my book 'The Elements of the Runes'.

Here that material has been thoroughly revised and augmented. Parts of the early chapters were originally issued in booklet form by the Asatru Folk Runic Workshop/Rune Gild UK. In memoriam Bernard Arthur King 1906 - 1995įragments of this study have appeared in slightly different form as articles for the magazines 'Talking Stick' and ' Pagan Voice' and the co-operation of the editors is gratefully acknowledged. Florence McNeill - The Silver Bough - Edinburgh 1956 In some of us, at least, they seemed to stir a racial memory and link us more closely to the generations that had gone before us.' 'Those of us who grew up in homes where our national festivals were celebrated know how much warmth and colour they brought into our childhood.

Bladud of Bath by Howard C. Levis