Twenty-Four Little Pieces of Wyrd: A Curious Guide to Making and Reading Your Own Runes

What if learning the runes didn’t have to begin with memorizing twenty-four mysterious symbols?

What if you began with a piece of paper, a pen, and a question?

Twenty-Four Little Pieces of Wyrd is a curious, practical introduction to the Elder Futhark runes. Beginning beneath the great tree with the Norns and the weaving of Wyrd, Laura LaBrie leads you through making your own set of runes, discovering the essential meaning and imagery of each of the twenty-four symbols, and learning how to read them for yourself.

You’ll begin simply: one rune, one question, one thread to follow. From there, you’ll learn how to combine two runes, read three as a developing story, work with the images behind the symbols, and discover what to do when a reading seems to make no sense at all.

There are no complicated spreads to memorize and no enormous lists of fixed interpretations. Instead, this book encourages you to look, notice, question, connect, and play until the runes begin to become familiar.

Make them from paper. Paint them on stones. Burn them into wood. Press them into clay.

Then gather your twenty-four little pieces of Wyrd, ask a question, choose a rune...

and see what happens when you pull the thread.