Irminic Recommended Reading List

von Steve Anthonijsz

A number of people have asked about source materials for learning more about Irminenschaft. Of course, the “must read” is Germanic Heathenry: A Practical Guide by James Hjuka Coulter, which lays out an easy-to-follow overview of Irminic orthodoxy and orthopraxy as it has come down to us over the ages. I like to think that my own book, Heathen Magic: An Irminic View offers a useful supplement. But for those who wish to delve deeper or who wish to broaden their understanding of Irminenschaft here are some suggestions. 

Indispensable Reading

• Chisholm, James Grove and Gallows: Greek and Latin Sources for Germanic Heathenism
  
  
• Flowers, Stephen E. The Northern Dawn: A History of the Reawakening of the Germanic Spirit
  
  
• Gorsleben, Rudolph John Hoch=Zeit der Menschheit (tr. Peak-Time of Humanity Karl Hans Welz)
  
  
• Flowers, Stephen E. and Michael Moynihan The Secret King: The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism
  
  
• Grimm, Jakob Deutche Mythologie (tr. Teutonic Mythology James Steven Stallybrass)
  
  
• Heliand any translation
  
  
• Jordanes Getica any translation
  
  
• Kummer, Siegfried Adolf Runen=Magie (tr. Rune-Magic Edred Thorsson)
  
  
• Nibelungenlied any translation.
  
  
• The Poetic Edda, sometimes referred to as the Sæmundar Edda. Any translation.
  
  
• Rydberg, Viktor Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi (tr. Investigations in Teutonic Mythology any translation)
  
  
• Thorsson, Edred Rune Might: Secret Practices of the German Rune Magicians
  
  
• von List, Guido Das Geheimnis der Runen (tr. Secrets of the Runes Edred Thorsson)
  
  
• von List, Guido Die Religion der Ario-Germanen in ihrer Esoterik und Exoterik (tr. The Religion of the Aryo-Germanic People in its Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects Edred Thorsson)
  
  
• Wiligut, Karl Maria The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes tr. Stephen E. Flowers
  
  
• Wódening, Eric We Are Our Deeds: The Elder Heathenry: Its Ethic and Thew
  
  

Useful or Supporting Texts

• Bureus, Johannes Adalruna (tr. Stephen E. Flowers)
  
  
• Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
  
  
• Grammaticus, Saxo Gesta Danorum any translation
  
  
• The Prose Edda any translation
  
  
• Shou, Peryt Die “Edda” als Schüssel des kommenden Weltalers! (tr. The Edda as Key to the Coming Age Stephen E. Flowers)
  
  
• Thorsson, Edred The Galdrabók: An Icelandic Grimoire tr. Stephen E. Flowers
  
  
• Thorsson, Edred The Mysteries of the Goths
  
  
• Weitzel, Fritz Die Gestaltung der Feste im Jahres=und Lebenslauf in der SS=Familie (tr. Celebrations of the SS Family
  
  
• Wódening, Swain Family Rites for the Germanic Heathen