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I bought the 2020 revised edition and it is much like the second edition but with some new content. I didn't even get any message from Amazon either, I learned about the new edition simply from seeing the book with a new cover. This author needs a LinkedIn or something to update us, even his own website didn't mention the new edition. He does have some interviews available online as well so I should mention that for anyone that likes his books and wants to learn more from him. I'll start with the new cover design, it looks fantastic. The dragon and runes are glossy while the cover is darker than the picture shows, and the runes show themselves by reflecting light as they are just glossy overlay, so I really like what he did with the cover and the dragon looks very good. The book is slightly smaller in all dimensions but has more content than the second edition. The paper is higher quality with a smoother surface and more white than before, but also thinner. For anyone confused as to how the new edition is smaller than the old edition, it's that the pages are thinner in combination with change in layout design. Overall, it is pretty much the same book, so it looks almost the same and I did not notice anything missing. There is a new font used which makes the new book easier to read. Most of the images look better, but a few did not print well like a low bit jpg, but they aren't too bad. The bibliography has increased in source count. The preface for the 2020 edition states that the two main updates are to the transliteration of English into runes, and to the correspondences, both of these are sections in the appendix. The author mentions here that he has a new book called "Rune-Writing: Our Original Way of Writing and the Key to Learning to Write Modern English in Anglo-Saxon Runes (Runestar, 2020)." I have not read that book so I will have to do so. He has R. I. Page listed as one source, but not Page's "Runes" from a book series called Reading the Past, nor does he have "Rudiments of Runelore" by Stephen Pollington. If anyone here is interested more in the runes as an alphabet and in archaeology, then I highly suggest getting these two books in addition to this book. Long story short to summarize those two books, runes can be written/carved from left to right and right to left, or even upside down, while individual runes can also be flipped/mirrored in words, and rune meanings come from rune poems and archaeological artifacts like magical talismans. I think is essential that people read those two books with this book to have a more complete perspective on runes. In the end though, the 2020 revised edition is improved in almost all ways and I think it was worth buying in addition to the prior edition. Anyone who liked the other editions should like this edition more.
Old Review for 2nd Edition:
I have used some information sourced from this book for many years though for a variety of projects. Some of the concepts in the book are more modern but it is largely historic. The book has four chapters, the first is a small overview on runes in history, the second chapter is dedicated to each rune in the elder futhark with their meanings and more, the third chapter is about the theory of rune magic which is mostly magic from Norse mythology, and the fourth chapter is meant for the magician to. It's a personal favorite reference book of mine to the runes in relation to Norse magic but it can also be used for rune magic techniques derived from more modern times. Anyone into making bindrunes and/or sigils will find this book useful to refer to frequently, as well those into using runes for divination. Some of the material in the last chapter comes off as questionable so it makes wonder how accurate his sources are but I haven’t been able to reading the books listed in his bibliography yet. It would be nice if he made a revised version of this book, especially as it is 35 years old now, so surely he must have new thoughts since that time regarding magic. Or more ideal would be if he made an entirely new big book that combines all of his previous books on rune magic into one cohesive master book instead of splitting off his ideas across multiple yet very similar books. The book is nice though as a physical object. Well printed on okay paper with a great cover. Margin and font sizes are good and the pictures are clear. Spine and binding quality look great. It's a very attractive book. I'm not fond of the font type used but it's easy to read. The material could have been organized a bit better but it's well enough.
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