Boxes are a great way to store items and help keep your altar space organized. This hand engraved box can come with a hand engraved rune set consisting of the 24 elder futhark runes. Please select if you would like the box with or without the runes in the menu. If you choose to purchase with a rune set they will be sent in a black burlap sack in case you want to carry them with you.

Benefits of using boxes: 

• Perfect to hold rune sets
• Ritual tool storage
• Decor item
• Better organization
• Cleaner work space

Dimensions: 4.5x4x4. The rune set that can come with this box has a 1" diameter. 

A valknut has been hand engraved on the top of this box and on either side are Hugin & Munin, Odin's ravens. While the term "valknut" is modern this symbol has been found on many historical artifacts and is thought to be tied to the Norse god Odin.

In Norse mythology, Huginn (from Old Norse "thought") and Muninn (Old Norse "memory" or "mind") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin. Huginn and Muninn are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources: the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in the Third Grammatical Treatise, compiled in the 13th century by Óláfr Þórðarson; and in the poetry of skalds. The names of the ravens are sometimes modernly anglicized as Hugin and Munin.

In the Poetic Edda, a disguised Odin expresses that he fears that they may not return from their daily flights. The Prose Edda explains that Odin is referred to as "raven-god" due to his association with Huginn and Muninn. In the Prose Edda and the Third Grammatical Treatise, the two ravens are described as perching on Odin's shoulders. Heimskringla details that Odin gave Huginn and Muninn the ability to speak.

Migration Period golden bracteates, Vendel era helmet plates, a pair of identical Germanic Iron Age bird-shaped brooches, Viking Age objects depicting a moustached man wearing a helmet, and a portion of the 10th or 11th century Thorwald's Cross may depict Odin with one of the ravens. Huginn and Muninn's role as Odin's messengers has been linked to shamanic practices, the Norse raven banner, general raven symbolism among the Germanic peoples, and the Norse concepts of the fylgja and the hamingja.

 HANDMADE IN THE USA

Learn about all 24 of the elder futhark runes here

Learn how to cast the runes here

view our deluxe odin box which is the larger and sturdier option to this here

**THIS ITEM IS MADE TO ORDER. Please allow 1 week production time. ** 

**All designs engraved within the wood are all done entirely by hand.**