<li>learning how to navigate the emotional aspect of relationships</li>
</ul>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Iar byþ eafix and ðeah a bruceþ<br>fodres on foldan, hafaþ fægerne eard<br>wætre beworpen, ðær he wynnum leofaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Iar is a river fish and yet it always feeds on land;<br>it has a fair abode encompassed by water, where it lives in happiness.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ior.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Sealing myself in skin of scales<br/>
means <strong>dropping the markings of sex.<br/>
Creature divine that lies truly between<br/>
but sans the blessings of femaleness.</strong></p>
<p>Nidhogg lies trapped underneath<br/>
the thick roots of Yggdrasil,<br/>
but I cannot allow Yewiffe to create<br/>
a jail for me out of my raging guilt.</p>
<p>If I allow the gnawing inside<br/>
to render my psyche frail,<br/>
how will I have the strength to maintain this form<br/>
and manage to slip past the Veil?<br/>
It shifts in form and thickness<br/>
like a guard patrolling on duty,<br/>
but I must be quicker, protean,<br/>
in this conflict between us that rages constantly.</p>
