Rune Sets

The Runes are the alphabetic and magical script of Germanic, Scandinavian and North European peoples and were magickaly used to ward off strife to charm away sickness and disease and to tell the future.

According to Norse mythology, the runes were give to man by Odin, who hung upside down for nine nights on the World Tree - Yggdrassil, searching out the secrets of the mind and of the Universe. It is said that the mysteries of the runes were revealed to Odin after passing into the afterlife, on his rebirth he passed this wisdom on to man.

Traditional lore says that Runes were used to ward off strife, to charm away sickness and disease, tell the future, to blunt the foeman's sword, to break fetters that bind, to still the storms, to ward off the attacks of demons, to make the dead to speak, to win the love of a maid, and to turn away love that is not desired. They have also power over death and the world beyond.