{"id":7240,"date":"2015-05-24T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2015-05-24T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T19:28:05","slug":"the-persistence-of-runic-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7240","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of Runic Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Seventeeth-century

Seventeeth-century runic inscription from Sweden.<\/p><\/div>\n

Why buy a book on learning runes from Llewellyn or Weiser when you can learn from the people who clung to them the longest<\/a>?<\/p>\n

But you say that they stopped using them a century ago? That is nothing in the spiritual tourism market. “My grandfather taught me the secret tradition that he preserved!”<\/p>\n

If they are trying to keep Elfdalian Norse alive<\/a>, bring the runes along too. Open some B&Bs, some small hotels decorated with runic inscriptions, some charming restaurants. Teach “runic yoga<\/a>.” Never mind that it was not invented there. This is tradition we are talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why buy a book on learning runes from Llewellyn or Weiser when you can learn from the people who clung to them the longest? But you say that they stopped using them a century ago? That is nothing in the spiritual tourism market. “My grandfather taught me the secret tradition that he preserved!” If they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,176,250],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-runes","tag-sweden","tag-yoga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1SM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":613,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=613","url_meta":{"origin":7240,"position":0},"title":"Vinland 1On November 8, 1898,\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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