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+<title>Wunjo</title>
+<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_wunjo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/wunjo.svg" alt="Wunjo rune" title="Wunjo rune"></a></p>
+<h1>Wunjo</h1>
+
+<p>Traditional meaning: joy, perfection</p>
+
+<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>bilocality in awareness</li>
+	<li>passionate love and union</li>
+	<li>joy in self-recognition</li>
+	<li>sacred marriage (by Mannaz)</li>
+	<li>lifting of the Veil</li>
+	<li>community peace</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>severance from the divine</li>
+	<li>madness and insanity</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>strengthening links and bonds</li>
+	<li>binding runes toward specific purposes</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>Wenne bruceþ, ðe can weana lyt<br>sares and sorge and him sylfa hæfþ<br>blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, sorrow nor anxiety,<br>and has prosperity and happiness and a good enough house.</blockquote>
+
+<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Wunjo.</p>
+
+<p>A modern poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+	<p>Where do our nerves know where to end?<br/>
+	X equals X times two,<br/>
+	all but nought to the stratosphere.<br/>
+	I touch your cheek, and I feel the sheer<br/>
+	softness, and the pressure against an aching tooth<br/>
+	in your jaw, and my fingertips starting to sweat.<br/>
+	I know, and I know that you know, and you know<br/>
+	that I know that you know.<br/>
+	Reaching across an imaginary line<br/>
+	that between our bodies divides<br/>
+	a canvas, symmetry mode, whatever I do<br/>
+	to you is mirrored in sensation on my own hide.</p>
+
+	<p>I would to atone self-flagellate<br/>
+	if not for the knowledge that the bloody pain,<br/>
+	although on your skin leaving no wound,<br/>
+	would convince that it had become serrate.<br/>
+	This vessel of mine is just as much yours<br/>
+	now as it was when Inside I was born,<br/>
+	reincarnate, held century's prisoner.<br/>
+	I should take care of it, I think, to minimize<br/>
+	the pain transferred from this bond of our life.</p>
+</blockquote>