Tales from the Ironwood

The Rune Poems: A Reawakened Tradition . P.D. Brown and Michael Moynihan, editors. (North Augusta: Arcana Europa, 2022). The Rune Poems by P.D. Brown and Michael Moynihan is surely the most complete collection of rune poems ever published. Over the past decade, Arcana Europa has been publishing and reissuing many important books about heathenry and runes. They may be best known as the publishers of the book-format journal TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition . As arguably the foremost publisher of such volumes, Arcana Europa has made many difficult-to-find books readily available in new well-crafted and well-edited editions. In the case of The Rune Poems , I suspect that the present title stands in as replacement for hard-to-find Stephen Flowers volume, The Rune Poems, vol. I: Introduction, Texts, Translation and Glossary originally published by Runa-Raven in 2002. In the present volume, Michael Moynihan (best known for his award-winning nonfiction book, Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of