Introductory Note by Kevin Alfred Strom: My family preserved some old Norwegian and Norwegian-American periodicals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I recall the life rune and death rune being used to mark births and deaths in them — but none of the articles were written in runic…

THERE WAS a flourishing civilisation in Northern Europe long before the Viking era. This video shows some archaeological artefacts from England and Sweden dating from the Nordic Bronze Age, the Migration era and the Vendel era. I also have some footage of the living history group Wulfheodenas whose…