Allgemeine Literaturhinweise

Ausführliche Darstellung der Forschung und vollständige Literaturangaben bis 1970 in:
Alfred Becker, Franks Casket Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon, Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Bd. 5 (1973)

• Clark, Hall & Meritt, A Concise Dictionary (of Anglo-Saxon words) ist ein Standartwerk. Umgekehrt von "heute nach damals" führt der Wortschatz bei
  

• Stephen Pollington , Wordcraft Anglo-Saxon Books (Norfolk 1996). vom Neuenglischen zum Altenglische. Der Thesaurus als Schlüssel zur Altenglischen Halle. Und die betreten wir durch Pollington's:
  The Mead-Hall - Feasting in Anglo-Saxon England, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 2003
  

• Vom selben Autor:
  Rudiments of Runelore, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1995
  Leechcraft - Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 2000

  Eine unverzichtbares Werk zur heidnisch-angelsächsischen Glaubenswelt; geeignet, den Hintergrund des Franks Casket zu erhellen
  The Elder Gods; - The Otherworld of Early England - Anglo-Saxon Books 2011: 520 Seiten

• Eine hervorragende Darstellung des angelsächsischen Kriegers, von seiner Ausrüstung über seine Ideenwelt bis hin zu seinem Bild in der Literatur bietet Pollington, mit dem Titel The English Warrior from earliest times to 1066, Anglo-Saxon Books (Norfolk 1996).2nd edition, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 2002

• Green, Miranda, The Sun Gods of Ancient Europe, Hippocrene Books (London 1991)

  Als Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1895 erschienen ist
  Wolfgang Golther, Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie, dem u.a. Ausführungen zur 'Walküre' (S. 98-116) entnommen sind. Das Werk ist für die Thematik immer noch unübertroffen, - wird es auch bleiben, solange das Thema tabuisiert ist.

• Unter dem Pseudonym E. Thorsson, erschien
  Ein Handbuch der esoterischen Runenkunde (1990). überraschend war für mich, daß die Thesen dort (ohne Bezug zum Casket) die Ergebnisse hier (Casket) voll bestätigten. Die esoterischen Aspekte ausgeklammert, bietet das Buch wertvolle Einsichten in den runenmagischen Brauch.

• Zur Geschichte des Umfeldes unseres Kästchens unvergleichlich gut:
  Peter Hunter Blair, Northumbria in the days of Bede (1976: reprint 1996); intellektuell ein Lesevergnügen.

• Eine geraffte, übersichtliche Darstellung der Personen und Ereignisse bietet
  P. J. Fairless, Northumbria’s Golden Age (1994).

• Eine nützliche Auflistung des Hintergrundwissens bietet
  Gale R. Owen,
  Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons (1981).

• Eine sehr gute Einführung in das Kalenderwesen, das auch die Komputistik des Runenkästchens bestimmt, bietet
  Andreas E. Zautner, Der gebundene Mondkalender der Germanen: Rekonstruktion eines Lunisolarkalenders nach antiken, mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Quellen. Mit einem Beitrag von Alfred Becker (Verlag bookra, 206 Seiten; 2013);

• Natürlich sollten wir auch die parallelen Quellen einbeziehen, z.B.
  The Age of Bede, ed. B. Redice (Penguin) ; oder, ad fontes, doch gleich
  Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed B. Radice (Penguin); aber auch
  Anglo Saxon Prose, transl. by M. Sweanton (Everyman 1993).

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Das "Runenkästchen von Auzon"

Aa.Vv., San Salvatore di Brescia. Materiali per un museo (Comune di Brescia. Catalogo della mostra giugno-novembre 1978), Brescia 1978.

H. Arntz, Handbuch der Runenkunde (2. Aufl. 1944; Nachdruck 2007); gute Einführung in die Runologie, aber ohne Anwendung dieser Kenntnisse auf das "Runenkästchen von Auzon" (Franks Casket)

G. Baesecke, Die Herkunft der Wielanddichtung, PBB 61 (1937), pp. 368-78.

G. Baldwin Brown, The Arts in Early England, vi, i, London 1930.

C.J.E. Ball, The Franks Casket: Right Side, English Studies 47 (1966), pp. 119-128.

C.J.E. Ball, The Franks Casket: Right Side - Again, English Studies 55 (1974)

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H. Beck, Einige Vendel-zeitliche Bilddenkmäler und die literarische Überlieferung, Sitzungsberichte der Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse, Heft 6, 1964.

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A. Becker, The Virgin and the Vamp, Asterisk: A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies, English Philological Society of Japan 12/4 (2003), pp. 201 - 209

A. Becker, A Magic Spell, "powered by" a Lunisolar Calendar, Asterisk: A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies, English Philological Society of Japan 15/2 (2006), pp. 50 - 73.

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H.R. Ellis Davidson, Weland the Smith, Folklore 69 (1958), pp. 145-159.

H.R. Ellis Davidson, The Smith and the Goddess, Two Figures on the Franks Casket from Auzon, Frühmittelalterliche Studien 3 (1969), pp. 216-226.

N. Francovich Onesti, La lingua letteraria di Cynewulf, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Siena, 14 (1993), pp. 71- 85.

N. Francovich Onesti, Roman Themes in the Franks Casket, in L'antichità nella cultura europea del Medioevo / L'antiquité dans la culture européenne du Moyen Age (Ergebnisse der internationalen Tagung in Padua, 27.9 - 1.10. 1997), Greifswald 1998, pp. 295-313.

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K. Hauck, Germanische Bilddenkmäler des früheren Mittelalters, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 31 (1957), pp. 349-379.

K. Hauck, Auzon, das Bilder- und Runenekästchen, in H. Beck et alii, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, I, 1973, pp. 514-23.

K. Hauck, Vorbericht über das Kästchen von Auzon, Frühmittelalterliche Studien 2 (1968), pp. 415-418.

K. Hauck, Das Kästchen von Auzon. Zur Rezeption spätantiker Genealogien im Frühmittelalter, (München 1970)

J. Hawkes and S. Mills (editors), Northumbria's Golden Age (1999); with articles by L. Webster, James Lang, C. Neuman de Vegvar on various aspects of the casket.

G. Henderson, Early Medieval Art, 1972, rev. 1977, Penguin, pp. 156-158

H. Kaufmann, Untersuchungen zu altdeutschen Rufnamen, München 1965.

T.D. Kendrick, Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 9OO, (London 1938)

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W. Levison, England and the Continent in the eighth Century, Oxford 1949.

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M. Osborn, The Grammar of the Inscription on the Franks Casket, right Side, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972), pp. 663-671.

M. Osborn, The Picture-Poem on the Front of the Franks Casket, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 75 (1974), pp. 50-65.

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Eigene Veröffentlichungen:

• Alfred Becker: Franks Casket. Zu den Bildern und Inschriften des Runenkästchens von Auzon. (Sprache und Literatur. Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Band 5). Carl, Regensburg 1973, ISBN 3-418-00205-6.
• Alfred Becker: Franks Casket Revisited. In: Asterisk. A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies. 12/2, 2003, S. 83–128.
• Alfred Becker: The Virgin and the Vamp. In: Asterisk.A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies. 12/4, 2003, S. 201–209.
• Alfred Becker: A Magic Spell „powered by“ a Lunisolar Calendar. In: Asterisk. A Quarterly Journal of Historical English Studies. 15, 2006, S. 55–73.
• Alfred Becker: Franks Casket; Ein Schicksalszauber und der Lunisolarkalender In: Andreas Zautner, Der gebundene Mondkalender der Germanen, bookra, Leipzig 2013, S. 176–187.
• Alfred Becker: „Franks Casket: The Stomping Ground of Romano Germanic Gods“. Academia.edu, 2015.
• Alfred Becker: Franks Casket:Das Runenkästchen von Auzon (Berlin 2021)
• Alfred Becker: The King's Gift Box (Troy Al. USA 2023)

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Zur Runenmagie nach: https://norse-mythology.org/runes/the-best-books-on-the-runes/ (Daniel McCoy)

Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic by Edred Thorsson
“Edred Thorsson” is the pen name of Stephen Flowers, a runic scholar with a Ph.D. in Germanic studies from the University of Texas in Austin (for his dissertation, Runes and Magic, see #9 below). As you’d expect from someone with that background and those credentials, “Futhark” is, of all of the guidebooks on runic magic, almost certainly the one most thoroughly informed by the historical practice of runic magic, both in the ancient Germanic world and in its earliest revival in the nineteenth-century German Romantic movement and the works of pioneers such as Guido von List. As with all books on runic magic, however, the book is also heavily colored by Flowers’s own insights gained from several years’ experience in practicing runic magic firsthand. That’s far from a bad thing, of course; especially given how fragmentary the surviving primary sources on historical Germanic religion are, it’s absolutely necessary to use one’s intuition to fill in the gaps, and Thorsson’s intuition is exceptionally lucid.
Futhark is extremely thorough and well-informed, and I recommend it very highly. It will especially appeal to indigenists and traditionalists who seek to eschew “New Age fluff” and to base their own practice on historical runic magic as completely as possible.

3. Runelore: The Magic, History, and Hidden Codes of the Runes by Edred Thorsson
Runelore Edred Thorsson’s Runelore: The Magic, History, and Hidden Codes of the Runes is something of a sequel to his earlier Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic (#2 above). Earlier editions were published with the (in my opinion better) subtitle A Handbook of Esoteric Runology.
Runelore is divided into two parts, both of which occupy roughly half of the book: “Historical Lore” and “Hidden Lore.” The section on “Historical Lore” gives a history of the origins, development, and use of the runes from before the Viking Age up through the modern runic revival. This section relies heavily on the author’s excellent Runes and Magic, his Ph.D. thesis in runology published under his real name, Stephen Flowers (see #9 below). A particularly delightful chapter in this section is “Rune Poems,” where Thorsson provides translations and discussions of the Rune Poems, one of the foremost primary sources for our knowledge of the runes today.
The section on “Hidden Lore” is more philosophical and psychological. The contents of this section are all firmly rooted in traditional Germanic lore, but go well beyond it. And that’s inevitable in any good book on the runes; due to the paucity of information on the runes in the primary sources, which are themselves of a rather fragmentary nature, one has to round out the available facts with supplemental intuition and explorations of other fields (while still staying true to the sources, of course) in order to (re)construct anything like a coherent, workable system of runic philosophy and/or magic. While I don’t agree with everything in this section, it’s one of the best attempts that have been made so far in this regard.
Any student of the runes will get a lot out of Runelore, whether as a standalone book or in conjunction with Futhark.

Runecaster’s Handbook by Edred Thorsson

Runecasters Handbook Edred Thorsson’s Runecaster’s Handbook is the third and final installment in his trilogy on runic magic for the lay reader. (The first two installments are Futhark, #2 above, and Runelore, #3 above.)
Whereas Runelore is the most philosophical, theoretical, and scholarly of the trilogy, Runecaster’s Handbook is the most directly practical. To make sure you’re not aimlessly spinning your wheels or inadvertently doing counterproductive or even dangerous things in your rune workings, however, Runecaster’s Handbook still provides at least some basic theory.
Nevertheless, the primary focus of Runecaster’s Handbook is on the practice of runic magic itself. The book includes numerous different methods and pre-established rituals for rune readings, runic divination, etc. It really takes you step by step through the whole process, from creating and charging the necessary tools to what to expect from the outcomes.

Rudiments of Runelore by Stephen Pollington
The final four books on this list aren’t guidebooks on rune magic. Rather, they’re scholarly books on the runes as historical phenomena.
Independent scholar Stephen Pollington’s Rudiments of Runelore is a highly accessible, engaging, and accurate introduction to the study of the runes. While rigorous and reliable, it’s written with a lay audience in mind – the best of both worlds.

Pollington discusses the origin of the runic characters, their meanings and associations, their variations across the Germanic world, their linguistic properties, their historical uses, and more. Since Pollington is first and foremost a scholar of the Anglo-Saxon world, the Old English runes get much more treatment here than they typically would in an introductory work like this. So if you’re especially interested in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, as that runic alphabet is called, you’ll be particularly pleased with this book. And if you’re looking for a pan-Germanic approach, you’ll certainly find that here, too, even if Pollington doesn’t go into as much detail about the other areas of the Germanic world.
If you’re looking for a concise, accessible, single-volume introduction to the scholarly study of the runes, Rudiments of Runelore is an excellent choice.

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