Tales from the Ironwood

This work was written between 27 August 2022 and 20 February 2023. During this time, I overcame many challenges and obstacles to bring this work to fruition. Through this study, I have come to better understand Siegfried Kummer. I appreciate his enthusiasm, his approach, and his lamentations over the destruction wrought by those black magicians who chose to take the easier, inviting path. ********* Tucked away at the end of Siegfried Kummer’s Runen-Magie ( Rune-Magic ) is the Runen-Futhorktafel (Runic Futhork Table).[1] The Futhork Table lists 21 Rune rows and provides important insight into Kummer’s knowledge of the various rune systems known at the time of the publication of Runen-Magie (1933). Such analysis reveals not only the variability of the known Rune rows at the time but provides greater clarity of the depth of understanding that Kummer and his fellow Armanists had of the runes. Kummer’s Table is basically divided into two halves. The first half (columns 1-9) lists kno