Runes & Symbolism Course
This course offers an engaging exploration of ancient runic scripts and their symbolic significance, equipping learners with practical skills in epigraphy, translation, and cultural analysis to understand and interpret these historical artifacts effectively.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Runes & Symbolism Course provides a concise, hands-on introduction to runic alphabets, dating techniques, and inscription materials, before progressing to epigraphic skills for transcription, transliteration, and translation. You will engage with primary sources, museum catalogues, and digital tools, create straightforward exhibition texts, and contrast runes with adjacent symbol systems to tackle ethics, ideology, and cultural exchange with assurance.
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Develop skills
- Curate runic artefacts: select, contextualise, and balance objects for exhibits.
- Read and transcribe runes: capture signs, damage, and variants with epigraphic rigour.
- Translate runic texts: apply lexical tools and grammar to fragmentary inscriptions.
- Analyse runes in society: trace religious, legal, magical, and economic functions.
- Compare symbol systems: identify cross-cultural motifs, borrowings, and ideologies.
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