Introducing the AERP

Posted by:

|

On:

|

A proper futhark simply must have a rune poem. The Anglo-Saxon Futhorc has its Old English Rune Poem (OERP), and the Younger Futhark has the Old Icelandic Rune Poem (OIRP) and the Old Norwegian Rune Poem (ONRP). Undoubtedly, the Elder Futhark had its original ur-poem in Proto-Germanic, but it is long lost, although a few echoes of it are probably in those three just-mentioned rune poems.

So I now present the American English Rune Poem (AERP) that goes with the American Futharch. And like the ancient rune poems, it’s in proper and traditional alliterative meter. In this case, it most closely resembles the meter, style, and didactic purpose of the OERP. Read more about it, and my entire 33-stanza AERP at its dedicated page on this site. I consider it so important to the American Futharch that I’ve given it a link in the header and footer of the website here.