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Edred Thorsson on Rune-Song

Edred Thorsson on Rune-Song

Edred Thorsson interviewed in June 2021 about the new Arcana Europa edition of Rune-Song: A Guide to Galdor. You originally wrote and recorded the material for Rune-Song nearly thirty years ago. What...

Edred Thorsson on Rune-Song

Edred Thorsson interviewed in June 2021 about the new Arcana Europa edition of Rune-Song: A Guide to Galdor. You originally wrote and recorded the material for Rune-Song nearly thirty years ago. What...

The Wayfarer’s Legacy

The Wayfarer’s Legacy

Image: Untitled monoprint by Nigel Pennick © 2020 Through an empty land of abandoned field enclosures and plots where cottages once stood, overgrown with wild flowers and trees, inhabited only...

The Wayfarer’s Legacy

Image: Untitled monoprint by Nigel Pennick © 2020 Through an empty land of abandoned field enclosures and plots where cottages once stood, overgrown with wild flowers and trees, inhabited only...

How Edred Heard the Word

How Edred Heard the Word

The following is an excerpt from the History of the Rune-Gild (Arcana Europa / Gilded Books) by Edred Thorsson: The “Wicca-world” of Austin, Texas circa 1973 was typical of the Wicca-world in...

How Edred Heard the Word

The following is an excerpt from the History of the Rune-Gild (Arcana Europa / Gilded Books) by Edred Thorsson: The “Wicca-world” of Austin, Texas circa 1973 was typical of the Wicca-world in...

Laying the Foundations for a New Pagan Philosophy

Laying the Foundations for a New Pagan Philosophy

I first heard the name Alain de Benoist in a side comment made by my dear late Doktorvater, Edgar Polomé, in a lecture on ancient Germanic religion. In our age,...

Laying the Foundations for a New Pagan Philosophy

I first heard the name Alain de Benoist in a side comment made by my dear late Doktorvater, Edgar Polomé, in a lecture on ancient Germanic religion. In our age,...

Preface for Nigel Pennick's "The Eldritch World"

Preface for Nigel Pennick's "The Eldritch World"

The modern world is a wasteland. We can say this in a polemical sense, but there is also a more immediate way in which modernity has quite literally wasted the...

Preface for Nigel Pennick's "The Eldritch World"

The modern world is a wasteland. We can say this in a polemical sense, but there is also a more immediate way in which modernity has quite literally wasted the...

Arcana Europa: What’s in a Name?

Arcana Europa: What’s in a Name?

Arcana Europa could be literally translated as the “Mysteries of Europe.” In a broad sense, the phrase is a fitting catch-all for the concerns and purview of our new publishing...

Arcana Europa: What’s in a Name?

Arcana Europa could be literally translated as the “Mysteries of Europe.” In a broad sense, the phrase is a fitting catch-all for the concerns and purview of our new publishing...