The Wanderer's Journal: with Old Norse Quotes Curated and Translated by Jackson Crawford

(Hardback)

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The Wanderer's Journal, a pocket-sized (4" x 6") notebook, features a smyth-sewn binding with a ribbon marker and a flexible hardcover with a copper foil embossed image of Odin's ravens, Hugin and Munin, stamped on the front. In addition to 148 blank ruled pages, the journal includes 13 illustrated rune pages with rune translations on the reverse pages. The rune illustrations by E.L. Wilson are based on Dr. Jackson Crawford's handwritten runes from 13 verses he selected from the Norse poem Hvaml. The translations are sourced from Dr. Crawford's frank and down-to-earth translations from "The Cowboy Hvaml," included in his 2019 Hackett Publishing book,The Wanderer's Hvaml.The Old Norse was written with the sixteen-letter Younger Futhark runic alphabet, which is used in this journal.

Author Bio

After more than a decade as a full-time Instructor in Scandinavian Studies at such institutions as the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of California-Los Angeles,Dr. Jackson Crawfordbecame a full-time public educator in all things Old Norse in 2020. Among other accomplishments, he has built up a large YouTube following and served as an Old Norse language and runes consultant on major multimedia projects, including some of today's most popular films and video games. Learn more atwww.jacksonwcrawford.com. His Hackett Publishing books include:Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek & Hrlf Kraki and His Champions (2021),The Wanderer's Hvaml (2019),The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok (2017), andThe Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes(2015).