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+<title>Yr</title>
+<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_yr.svg"><img src="../img/runes/yr.svg" alt="Yr rune" title="Yr rune"></a></p>
+<h1>Yr</h1>
+
+<p>Traditional meaning: archer</p>
+
+<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>total focus/flow</li>
+	<li>obsessive desire to create</li>
+	<li>need to pay close attention to detail</li>
+	<li>do the job right the first time</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Yr can be useful for:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>studying</li>
+	<li>concentrating on the creation of art</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>Yr byþ æþelinga and eorla gehwæs<br>wyn and wyrþmynd, byþ on wicge fæger,<br>fæstlic on færelde, fyrdgeatewa sum.</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote>Yr is a source of joy and honour to every prince and knight;<br>it looks well on a horse and is a reliable equipment for a journey.</blockquote>
+
+<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Yr.</p>
+
+<p>A modern poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+	<p>English classes have always been to me<br/>
+	a sort of Sword of Damocles.<br/>
+	I do what I will, but will it be enough<br/>
+	to be accepted, or just deemed crude and rough?</p>
+
+	<p>I cannot help the way I write,<br/>
+	self-taught and shut away from the light<br/>
+	and having to seek it in the cracks in the walls,<br/>
+	not big enough for detection but for thriving too small.</p>
+
+	<p>And even though the school doors to me are closed<br/>
+	and in most days<br/>
+	I do not hang<br/>
+	in my father's rage's woes,<br/>
+	it does not change that my artistic growth<br/>
+	has been forever marred, twisted, contorted<br/>
+	into an off-putting and alien shape.</p>
+
+	<p>This aberration<br/>
+	is all that I am.<br/>
+	This demonic growth<br/>
+	is my only hope<br/>
+	for surviving in this world of men.</p>
+
+	<p>For this world offers no true salvation<br/>
+	for a woman such as myself.<br/>
+	Quiet my heart and keep my mouth shut,<br/>
+	or be locked away in the guise of "mental help":<br/>
+	what kind of a choice is this?<br/>
+	Men will see a woman contorting<br/>
+	to ease the pain of their inflicted torture<br/>
+	and deem her "insane", "hysterical", "untrustful"<br/>
+	as an excuse to lock her<br/>
+	away.</p>
+
+	<p>I want to scream into the heavens<br/>
+	until my throat is raw.<br/>
+	I want to tear into a man's throat<br/>
+	and chew,<br/>
+	brutally gnaw,<br/>
+	off the sinews<br/>
+	connecting skull to maw.<br/>
+	Now you're the voiceless one,<br/>
+	mutilated and mute.<br/>
+	Nothing of value was lost.</p>
+
+	<p>Maybe I am a lost cause,<br/>
+	but only to being complicit<br/>
+	in my own desecration.</p>
+
+	<p>Laser focus,<br/>
+	beast's tunnel vision.<br/>
+	What say man's heavens<br/>
+	to a woman who will not be silenced?<br/>
+	Only a god's hand can strike me down<br/>
+	now.<br/>
+	And if he is real, why haven't<br/>
+	I been smote yet?</p>
+</blockquote>