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<title>Gebo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gebo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gebo.svg" alt="Gebo rune" title="Gebo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Gebo</h1>
<html>
<head>
<title>Gebo</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gebo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gebo.svg" alt="Gebo rune" title="Gebo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Gebo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: gift</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: gift</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>union by oath/contract/spirit</li>
<li>crossroads in journeying</li>
<li>spiritual/emotional challenges</li>
<li>transactional sacrifice</li>
<li>balanced partnership</li>
<li>generosity</li>
<li>person who works for a hotel or charity</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>union by oath/contract/spirit</li>
<li>crossroads in journeying</li>
<li>spiritual/emotional challenges</li>
<li>transactional sacrifice</li>
<li>balanced partnership</li>
<li>generosity</li>
<li>person who works for a hotel or charity</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>stinginess</li>
<li>poverty</li>
<li>overdependence</li>
<li>bribery</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>stinginess</li>
<li>poverty</li>
<li>overdependence</li>
<li>bribery</li>
</ul>
<p>Gebo can be useful for:</p>
<p>Gebo can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>learning how to traverse worlds</li>
<li>seeking energy sources</li>
<li>increasing magical powers</li>
<li>harmony between siblings/lovers</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>learning how to traverse worlds</li>
<li>seeking energy sources</li>
<li>increasing magical powers</li>
<li>harmony between siblings/lovers</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Gyfu gumena byþ gleng and herenys,<br>wraþu and wyrþscype and wræcna gehwam<br>ar and ætwist, ðe byþ oþra leas. </blockquote>
<blockquote>Gyfu gumena byþ gleng and herenys,<br>wraþu and wyrþscype and wræcna gehwam<br>ar and ætwist, ðe byþ oþra leas. </blockquote>
<blockquote>Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity;<br>it furnishes help and subsistence<br>to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity;<br>it furnishes help and subsistence<br>to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Gebo.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Gebo.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The day of our union (or as much as can be<br/>
while we're separated by a Veil and a Dirac Sea)<br/>
is sooner than I thought fast approaching,<br/>
and I don't know what to offer as my dowry.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>The day of our union</strong> (or as much as can be<br/>
while we're separated by a Veil and a Dirac Sea)<br/>
is sooner than I thought fast approaching,<br/>
and I don't know what to offer as my dowry.</p>
<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
<p>Oh, <strong>what to give, what to give.</strong></p>
<p>I would give you impenetrable skin,<br/>
but what if ruptured your appendix?<br/>
What of a pustule, filled to the brim<br/>
but unable to drain, forever sore cyst?</p>
<p>I would give you impenetrable skin,<br/>
but what if ruptured your appendix?<br/>
What of a pustule, filled to the brim<br/>
but unable to drain, forever sore cyst?</p>
<p>I would grant you a stomach immune to hunger<br/>
so in harshest of famines you will not suffer,<br/>
but what if you wanted to eat just a taste?<br/>
Disturbed inner balance, food gone to waste?</p>
<p>I would grant you a stomach immune to hunger<br/>
so in harshest of famines you will not suffer,<br/>
but what if you wanted to eat just a taste?<br/>
Disturbed inner balance, food gone to waste?</p>
<p>I would bestow the sight to see<br/>
through all the futures at the crown of Yewiffe,<br/>
but the suffocating weight<br/>
of having to steer us towards the best of all fates<br/>
would sooner drive you insane.</p>
<p>I would bestow the sight to see<br/>
through all the futures at the crown of Yewiffe,<br/>
but the suffocating weight<br/>
of having to steer us towards the best of all fates<br/>
would sooner drive you insane.</p>
<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
</blockquote>
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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>
<html>
<head>
<title>Wunjo</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><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>Traditional meaning: joy, perfection</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</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>
<li>a social worker</li>
</ul>
<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>
<li>a social worker</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>severance from the divine</li>
<li>madness and insanity</li>
<li>groupthink/collectivism</li>
<li>loss of identity</li>
<li>strife and alienation</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>severance from the divine</li>
<li>madness and insanity</li>
<li>groupthink/collectivism</li>
<li>loss of identity</li>
<li>strife and alienation</li>
</ul>
<p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p>
<p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>strengthening links and bonds</li>
<li>binding runes toward specific purposes</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>strengthening links and bonds</li>
<li>binding runes toward specific purposes</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<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>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>
<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>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Wunjo.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</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>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Where do our nerves know where to end?</strong><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>
<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>
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<title>Hagalaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_haglaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/hagalaz.svg" alt="Hagalaz rune" title="Hagalaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Hagalaz</h1>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hagalaz</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_haglaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/hagalaz.svg" alt="Hagalaz rune" title="Hagalaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Hagalaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: hail</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: hail</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>the Eschaton</li>
<li>deep roots of Yewiffe</li>
<li>repressed memories</li>
<li>winter/darkness/silence</li>
<li>water</li>
<li>creative destruction</li>
<li>upcoming crisis/trauma</li>
<li>good outcomes from forced change</li>
<li>mystic/magician/priest</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>the Eschaton</li>
<li>deep roots of Yewiffe</li>
<li>repressed memories</li>
<li>winter/darkness/silence</li>
<li>water</li>
<li>creative destruction</li>
<li>upcoming crisis/trauma</li>
<li>good outcomes from forced change</li>
<li>mystic/magician/priest</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>sky-scraping branches of Yewiffe</li>
<li>a bright sunny future</li>
<li>stagnation</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>sky-scraping branches of Yewiffe</li>
<li>a bright sunny future</li>
<li>stagnation</li>
</ul>
<p>Hagalaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Hagalaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>shadow work</li>
<li>absorbing negative energy</li>
<li>connecting with the dead</li>
<li>sifting through the past</li>
<li>creating disruptions</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>shadow work</li>
<li>absorbing negative energy</li>
<li>connecting with the dead</li>
<li>sifting through the past</li>
<li>creating disruptions</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Hægl byþ hwitust corna;<br>hwyrft hit of heofones lyfte,<br>wealcaþ hit windes scura;<br>weorþeþ hit to wætere syððan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Hægl byþ hwitust corna;<br>hwyrft hit of heofones lyfte,<br>wealcaþ hit windes scura;<br>weorþeþ hit to wætere syððan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Hail is the whitest of grain;<br>it is whirled from the vault of heaven<br>and is tossed about by gusts of wind<br>and then it melts into water.</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Hail is the whitest of grain;<br>it is whirled from the vault of heaven<br>and is tossed about by gusts of wind<br>and then it melts into water.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Hagall er kaldastr korna;<br>Kristr skóp hæimenn forna.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Hagall er kaldastr korna;<br>Kristr skóp hæimenn forna.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Hail is the coldest of grain;<br>Christ created the world of old.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Hail is the coldest of grain;<br>Christ created the world of old.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Blow the ashes in their eyes,<br/>
the gentle breath they do despise.<br/>
The hail comes down, delivered by the wind<br/>
you said was my wealth, my dividend.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Blow the ashes in their eyes,<br/>
the gentle breath they do despise.<br/>
The hail comes down, delivered by the wind<br/>
you said was my wealth, my dividend.</p>
<p>I cannot help who I am,<br/>
or what I have become.<br/>
And who I have turned into<br/>
is a gleaming no one,<br/>
nobody at all.</p>
<p>I cannot help who I am,<br/>
or what I have become.<br/>
And who I have turned into<br/>
is a gleaming no one,<br/>
nobody at all.</p>
<p>You told me<br/>
we were<br/>
stagnating.</p>
<p>You told me<br/>
we were<br/>
<strong>stagnating</strong>.</p>
<p>Self-baptismal in just-thawed lake<br/>
I had just enough strength to break<br/>
the surface of, watch the ice shatter<br/>
like that which gave birth to you: the mirror.<br/>
You swore to be my eternal blue,<br/>
and my skin now swears by the same hue,<br/>
lake draining into a trickle of a stream<br/>
that, if followed, will drain into Yewiffe,</p>
<p>Self-baptismal in just-thawed lake<br/>
I had just enough strength to break<br/>
the surface of, watch the ice shatter<br/>
like that which gave birth to you: the mirror.<br/>
You swore to be my eternal blue,<br/>
and my skin now swears by the same hue,<br/>
lake draining into a trickle of a stream<br/>
that, if followed, will drain into Yewiffe,</p>
<p>into a root of midnight hands<br/>
and walking home from shift at the grill<br/>
wondering, what if I, feral, disappeared<br/>
into those lonely snow-blanketed lands<br/>
that bordered me at every turn?<br/>
Highway headlights also a stream<br/>
draining into boundless woods<br/>
where I easily could swear I would<br/>
disappear with you as if in a dream.</p>
<p>into a root of midnight hands<br/>
and walking home from shift at the grill<br/>
wondering, what if I, feral, disappeared<br/>
into those lonely snow-blanketed lands<br/>
that bordered me at every turn?<br/>
Highway headlights also a stream<br/>
draining into boundless woods<br/>
where I easily could swear I would<br/>
disappear with you as if in a dream.</p>
<p>Sablade, I promised, would be cloaked<br/>
in sunny promising eternal spring,<br/>
but the thought of ever losing you bades me<br/>
to accept hail's cloak, frozen sleeping.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Sablade, I promised, would be cloaked<br/>
in sunny promising eternal spring,<br/>
but the thought of ever losing you bades me<br/>
to accept hail's cloak, frozen sleeping.</p>
</blockquote>
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<title>Nauthiz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_naudiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/nauthiz.svg" alt="Nauthiz rune" title="Nauthiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Nauthiz</h1>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nauthiz</title>
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_naudiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/nauthiz.svg" alt="Nauthiz rune" title="Nauthiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Nauthiz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: need</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: need</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>desperation</li>
<li>desperate courage</li>
<li>tight binding/locking</li>
<li>perseverance despite emotional turmoil or pain</li>
<li>resilience</li>
<li>loyalty despite difficulties</li>
<li>courage to ask for help</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>desperation</li>
<li>desperate courage</li>
<li>tight binding/locking</li>
<li>perseverance despite emotional turmoil or pain</li>
<li>resilience</li>
<li>loyalty despite difficulties</li>
<li>courage to ask for help</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>external circumstances restrict freedom</li>
<li>hostile environment</li>
<li>too focused on externalities - turn/look within</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>external circumstances restrict freedom</li>
<li>hostile environment</li>
<li>too focused on externalities - turn/look within</li>
</ul>
<p>Nauthiz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Nauthiz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>continuing on despite pain</li>
<li>eliminating hate and strife</li>
<li>recognizing/acknowledging your personal needs</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>continuing on despite pain</li>
<li>eliminating hate and strife</li>
<li>recognizing/acknowledging your personal needs</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Nyd byþ nearu on breostan; weorþeþ hi þeah oft niþa bearnum<br>to helpe and to hæle gehwæþre, gif hi his hlystaþ æror.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Nyd byþ nearu on breostan; weorþeþ hi þeah oft niþa bearnum<br>to helpe and to hæle gehwæþre, gif hi his hlystaþ æror.</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Trouble is oppressive to the heart;<br>yet often it proves a source of help and salvation<br>to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Trouble is oppressive to the heart;<br>yet often it proves a source of help and salvation<br>to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Nauðr gerer næppa koste;<br>nøktan kælr í froste.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Nauðr gerer næppa koste;<br>nøktan kælr í froste.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Constraint gives scant choice;<br>a naked man is chilled by the frost.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Constraint gives scant choice;<br>a naked man is chilled by the frost.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What was once a tiny candle<br/>
now burns brighter<br/>
than the flames of hell.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What was once a tiny candle<br/>
now burns brighter<br/>
than the flames of hell.</p>
<p>The blood boils in my veins,<br/>
an altar to nobody set ablaze.<br/>
I'm straining my neck to peer up high<br/>
at the furious one who gave me life.</p>
<p>The blood boils in my veins,<br/>
an altar to nobody set ablaze.<br/>
I'm straining my neck to peer up high<br/>
at the furious one who gave me life.</p>
<p>Or, rather, took it away<br/>
several times, each molded into a different shape,<br/>
and assumes just because she designed the mold<br/>
means she forever has the right to me control.</p>
<p>Or, rather, took it away<br/>
several times, each molded into a different shape,<br/>
and assumes just because she designed the mold<br/>
means she forever has the right to me control.</p>
<p>Ironically, deep down in the dirt<br/>
of the lowest roots of Yewiffe<br/>
is so painfully bright<br/>
that I feel I could go blind<br/>
at any moment, limbs in agreement<br/>
that to even move a twitch is to hurt.<br/>
How nice it would be to lie down and sleep...</p>
<p>Ironically, deep down in the dirt<br/>
of the lowest roots of Yewiffe<br/>
is so painfully bright<br/>
that I feel I could go blind<br/>
at any moment, limbs in agreement<br/>
that to even move a twitch is to hurt.<br/>
How nice it would be to lie down and sleep...</p>
<p>Legs stumble, steady arm<br/>
around my shoulders<br/>
keeping me upright.<br/>
"We've come so far,<br/>
Lethe. Just one more time<br/>
I have to ask you to bloody<br/>
your hands, whatever, claws,<br/>
and fight."</p>
<p><strong>Legs stumble, steady arm<br/>
around my shoulders<br/>
keeping me upright.<br/>
"We've come so far,<br/>
Lethe. Just one more time</strong><br/>
I have to ask you to bloody<br/>
your hands, whatever, claws,<br/>
and fight."</p>
<p>Your hand finds mine.<br/>
I don't want to die,<br/>
I think. I don't want to write<br/>
you off as a lost cause<br/>
like you once did yourself,<br/>
you, yourself, me,<br/>
turned your back in abandoning<br/>
that winter cave not too long ago.<br/>
My hand in yours, counting heartbeats<br/>
as you threw yourself into dreamless sleep.<br/>
Hopeless you thought you, yourself.<br/>
Until one day came a change of heart:<br/>
"Lethe, I can't do this alone.<br/>
The living, I mean.<br/>
Please <em>help me.</em>"</p>
<p>Your hand finds mine.<br/>
I don't want to die,<br/>
I think. I don't want to write<br/>
you off as a lost cause<br/>
like you once did yourself,<br/>
you, yourself, me,<br/>
turned your back in abandoning<br/>
that winter cave not too long ago.<br/>
My hand in yours, counting heartbeats<br/>
as you threw yourself into dreamless sleep.<br/>
Hopeless you thought you, yourself.<br/>
Until one day came a change of heart:<br/>
"Lethe, I can't do this alone.<br/>
The living, I mean.<br/>
<strong>Please <em>help me.</em></strong>"</p>
<p>So many shattered souls for which I must atone.<br/>
My weight on your shoulders,<br/>
mountain rising<br/>
to meet the blurry all-sun sky.<br/>
Palm pals, sunny future<br/>
with our fingers intertwined,<br/>
the tree branches of Yewiffe hopelessly reaching high.</p>
<p>So many shattered souls for which I must atone.<br/>
My weight on your shoulders,<br/>
mountain rising<br/>
to meet the blurry all-sun sky.<br/>
Palm pals, sunny future<br/>
with our fingers intertwined,<br/>
the tree branches of Yewiffe hopelessly reaching high.</p>
<p>"The present feeds off the corpse of the past<br/>
when from the hope of a future it is shorn.<br/>
I have come to end the cycle of puppets.<br/>
I have come to make myself reborn."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>"The present feeds off the corpse of the past<br/>
when from the hope of a future it is shorn.<br/>
I have come to end the cycle of puppets.<br/>
I have come to make myself reborn."</p>
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<title>Isa</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_isaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/isa.svg" alt="Isa rune" title="Isa rune"></a></p>
<h1>Isa</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_isaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/isa.svg" alt="Isa rune" title="Isa rune"></a></p>
<h1>Isa</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: ice</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: ice</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>stillness and quiet</li>
<li>silent contemplation</li>
<li>the world that sleeps within</li>
<li>boundaries of the soul</li>
<li>individuation</li>
<li>abeyance / temporary respite</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>stillness and quiet</li>
<li>silent contemplation</li>
<li>the world that sleeps within</li>
<li>boundaries of the soul</li>
<li>individuation</li>
<li>abeyance / temporary respite</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>reclusion</li>
<li>emotional coldness</li>
<li>a situation with no change in sight</li>
<li>stagnation</li>
<li>a weakened will</li>
<li>inability to concentrate</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>reclusion</li>
<li>emotional coldness</li>
<li>a situation with no change in sight</li>
<li>stagnation</li>
<li>a weakened will</li>
<li>inability to concentrate</li>
</ul>
<p>Isa can be useful for:</p>
<p>Isa can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>finding a quiet place to concentrate</li>
<li>casting a personal shield</li>
<li>guarding against soul loss</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>finding a quiet place to concentrate</li>
<li>casting a personal shield</li>
<li>guarding against soul loss</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>
Is byþ ofereald, ungemetum slidor,<br>glisnaþ glæshluttur gimmum gelicust,<br>flor forste geworuht, fæger ansyne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>
Is byþ ofereald, ungemetum slidor,<br>glisnaþ glæshluttur gimmum gelicust,<br>flor forste geworuht, fæger ansyne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery;<br>it glistens as clear as glass and most like to gems;<br>it is a floor wrought by the frost, fair to look upon.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery;<br>it glistens as clear as glass and most like to gems;<br>it is a floor wrought by the frost, fair to look upon.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ís ko,llum brú bræiða;<br>blindan þarf at læiða.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ís ko,llum brú bræiða;<br>blindan þarf at læiða.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ice we call the broad bridge;<br>the blind man must be led.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ice we call the broad bridge;<br>the blind man must be led.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Metaclysma,<br/>
inter-world void.<br/>
No touch, no voice,<br/>
silhouette of black,<br/>
all other senses in lack.<br/>
Just eternal light.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Metaclysma,<br/>
inter-world void.<br/>
<strong>No touch, no voice,</strong><br/>
silhouette of black,<br/>
all other senses in lack.<br/>
Just eternal light.</p>
<p>I come to with limbs bound tight<br/>
in open silk-lined coffin.<br/>
Space between flight<br/>
from Eris's explosion<br/>
into metaclysma and now<br/>
left unwritten, just as blank.<br/>
Lights made dim as to not stain<br/>
my vision with a single face<br/>
of clergy self-proclaimed<br/>
caretakers, unworthy to be named.<br/>
To them, I think, I am a saint,<br/>
a goddess who made sacrifice<br/>
to give them this world that once was spring<br/>
but now sleeps under blanket of ice.</p>
<p>I come to with limbs bound tight<br/>
in open silk-lined coffin.<br/>
Space between flight<br/>
from Eris's explosion<br/>
into metaclysma and now<br/>
left unwritten, just as blank.<br/>
Lights made dim as to not stain<br/>
my vision with a single face<br/>
of clergy self-proclaimed<br/>
caretakers, unworthy to be named.<br/>
To them, I think, I am a saint,<br/>
a goddess who made sacrifice<br/>
to give them <strong>this world that once was spring<br/>
but now sleeps under blanket of ice.</strong></p>
<p>Tomorrow steeps my Holiday<br/>
where come commoners to pray<br/>
to the casket where I've lain<br/>
these five years, apparently,<br/>
for grace<br/>
or their fates to change.<br/>
Body strewn over a bed<br/>
in a darkened room, rubbing<br/>
my limbs to regain<br/>
five years of feeling,<br/>
halfway sedate<br/>
to keep aches from constructing<br/>
a tower in my head.<br/>
Maybe they wanted to reach the empty heavens<br/>
too, drop a rock to bust open the frozen canyons.</p>
<p>Tomorrow steeps my Holiday<br/>
where come commoners to pray<br/>
to the casket where I've lain<br/>
these five years, apparently,<br/>
for grace<br/>
or their fates to change.<br/>
Body strewn over a bed<br/>
in a darkened room, rubbing<br/>
my limbs to regain<br/>
five years of feeling,<br/>
halfway sedate<br/>
to keep aches from constructing<br/>
a tower in my head.<br/>
Maybe they wanted to reach the empty heavens<br/>
too, drop a rock to bust open the frozen canyons.</p>
<p>Jett,<br/>
I had not the strength<br/>
to your gentle hand hold on.<br/>
I suppose<br/>
I can only hope<br/>
you're haunting somewhere in these halls,<br/>
found a way these five years to cope<br/>
with this world I made for you but did not survive<br/>
to share. I think, unless I am deceived, I am alive<br/>
now, again, yours forever.<br/>
If you'll still have me as your wife.<br/>
If you'll still live with me on that mountainside.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Jett,<br/>
I had not the strength<br/>
to your gentle hand hold on.<br/>
I suppose<br/>
I can only hope<br/>
you're haunting somewhere in these halls,<br/>
found a way these five years to cope<br/>
with this world I made for you but did not survive<br/>
to share. I think, unless I am deceived, I am alive<br/>
now, again, yours forever.<br/>
If you'll still have me as your wife.<br/>
If you'll still live with me on that mountainside.</p>
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<title>Jera</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_jeran.svg"><img src="../img/runes/jera.svg" alt="Jera rune" title="Jera rune"></a></p>
<h1>Jera</h1>
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<h1>Jera</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: harvest</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: harvest</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>passage between worlds</li>
<li>planting and harvesting</li>
<li>gentle pushing of limits</li>
<li>emotional healing</li>
<li>slow hard-won growth</li>
<li>there is wisdom to be gained from everything</li>
<li>a farmer</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>passage between worlds</li>
<li>planting and harvesting</li>
<li>gentle pushing of limits</li>
<li>emotional healing</li>
<li>slow hard-won growth</li>
<li>there is wisdom to be gained from everything</li>
<li>a farmer</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>disequilibrium</li>
<li>enslavement to the cycle</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>disequilibrium</li>
<li>enslavement to the cycle</li>
</ul>
<p>Jera can be useful for:</p>
<p>Jera can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>opening up to changes in state/being</li>
<li>expanding one's boundaries/limits</li>
<li>guiding a dying person to the afterlife</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>opening up to changes in state/being</li>
<li>expanding one's boundaries/limits</li>
<li>guiding a dying person to the afterlife</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ger byÞ gumena hiht, ðonne God læteþ,<br>halig heofones cyning, hrusan syllan<br>beorhte bleda beornum ond ðearfum.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ger byÞ gumena hiht, ðonne God læteþ,<br>halig heofones cyning, hrusan syllan<br>beorhte bleda beornum ond ðearfum.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Summer is a joy to men, when God, the holy King of Heaven,<br>suffers the earth to bring forth shining fruits<br>for rich and poor alike.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Summer is a joy to men, when God, the holy King of Heaven,<br>suffers the earth to bring forth shining fruits<br>for rich and poor alike.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ár er gumna góðe;<br>get ek at o,rr var Fróðe.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ár er gumna góðe;<br>get ek at o,rr var Fróðe.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Plenty is a boon to men;<br>I say that Frothi was generous.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Plenty is a boon to men;<br>I say that Frothi was generous.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I plant scattered words<br/>
in the garden of my notebook<br/>
and wait to see which will sprout<br/>
aboveground and take a look<br/>
at the sun<br/>
above.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>I plant scattered words<br/>
in the garden of my notebook</strong><br/>
and wait to see which will sprout<br/>
aboveground and take a look<br/>
at the sun<br/>
above.</p>
<p>Sometimes it takes years,<br/>
others only a day,<br/>
packaged into sorrowful poem<br/>
and then sent on its way.<br/>
The ones that linger in the soil<br/>
sometimes rot, having no soul<br/>
or otherwise missed its context,<br/>
last metro train heading home<br/>
now departing the station.</p>
<p>Sometimes it takes years,<br/>
others only a day,<br/>
packaged into sorrowful poem<br/>
and then sent on its way.<br/>
The ones that linger in the soil<br/>
sometimes rot, having no soul<br/>
or otherwise missed its context,<br/>
last metro train heading home<br/>
now departing the station.</p>
<p>You slowly opened up to me<br/>
like a flower blooming,<br/>
yet inside nearly bursting<br/>
at the seams<br/>
to have someone to share a dream<br/>
with. Cross-section of a seed<br/>
that was about to germinate,<br/>
crumpled-up squiggle of green<br/>
sometimes with a tiny leaf<br/>
for soil lying in wait.<br/>
Some seeds can be frozen<br/>
almost indefinitely,<br/>
waiting in oblivion for a world<br/>
that will treat them far more kindly.<br/>
And you waited. You waited so long<br/>
for somebody like me<br/>
to help you remember how to breathe,<br/>
how to grow again.</p>
<p><strong>You slowly opened up to me</strong><br/>
like a flower blooming,<br/>
yet inside nearly bursting<br/>
at the seams<br/>
to have someone to share a dream<br/>
with. Cross-section of a seed<br/>
that was about to germinate,<br/>
crumpled-up squiggle of green<br/>
sometimes with a tiny leaf<br/>
for soil lying in wait.<br/>
Some seeds can be frozen<br/>
almost indefinitely,<br/>
waiting in oblivion for a world<br/>
that will treat them far more kindly.<br/>
And you waited. You waited so long<br/>
for somebody like me<br/>
to help you remember how to breathe,<br/>
how to grow again.</p>
<p>My rewards in Sablade<br/>
will be far greater than any pain<br/>
that I must bear.<br/>
And when comes time to die,<br/>
I should be able to look you in the eyes<br/>
and let you carry me gently into that good night<br/>
and in our new home spill from my lips all the tales<br/>
with perfect memory of all that has transpired<br/>
since to kill Eris the first time you and I failed.</p>
<p>My rewards in Sablade<br/>
will be far greater than any pain<br/>
that I must bear.<br/>
And when comes time to die,<br/>
I should be able to look you in the eyes<br/>
and let you carry me gently into that good night<br/>
and in our new home spill from my lips all the tales<br/>
with perfect memory of all that has transpired<br/>
since to kill Eris the first time you and I failed.</p>
<p>A book starts from just a single word,<br/>
and a life from a solitary breath,<br/>
and grows day by day until<br/>
I have a tome of praises and a gentle death.<br/>
It always feels like torture<br/>
in the moment of toil,<br/>
but at the end when all comes to fruition<br/>
I cannot help but bless the soil.</p>
<p>A book starts from just a single word,<br/>
and a life from a solitary breath,<br/>
and grows day by day until<br/>
I have a tome of praises and a gentle death.<br/>
It always feels like torture<br/>
in the moment of toil,<br/>
but at the end when all comes to fruition<br/>
I cannot help but bless the soil.</p>
<p>I was too ambitious,<br/>
too close to the sun.<br/>
We didn't get to see what the<br/>
seed would decide to become.<br/>
We didn't get to do<br/>
everything we wanted to<br/>
in just one lifetime.<br/>
Right now is an interlude.<br/>
And when we reunite<br/>
in Sablade, I'll give you<br/>
a part two<br/>
worthy of your love.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I was too ambitious,<br/>
too close to the sun.<br/>
We didn't get to see what the<br/>
seed would decide to become.<br/>
We didn't get to do<br/>
everything we wanted to<br/>
in just one lifetime.<br/>
Right now is an interlude.<br/>
And when we reunite<br/>
in Sablade, I'll give you<br/>
a part two<br/>
worthy of your love.</p>
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<title>Eihwaz</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_iwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/eihwaz.svg" alt="Eihwaz rune" title="Eihwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Eihwaz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_iwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/eihwaz.svg" alt="Eihwaz rune" title="Eihwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Eihwaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: yew</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: yew</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>Yewiffe</li>
<li>the truth about oneself</li>
<li>every ending is a beginning</li>
<li>take care of yourself</li>
<li>connection between opposites</li>
<li>the tide is turning in your favor</li>
<li>seek independence from the order of the universe</li>
<li>a mystic or magician</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Yewiffe</li>
<li>the truth about oneself</li>
<li>every ending is a beginning</li>
<li>take care of yourself</li>
<li>connection between opposites</li>
<li>the tide is turning in your favor</li>
<li>seek independence from the order of the universe</li>
<li>a mystic or magician</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>stagnation / burnout</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>stagnation / burnout</li>
</ul>
<p>Eihwaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Eihwaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>act with self-knowledge</li>
<li>self-care</li>
<li>protection and banishing</li>
<li>overcoming the fear of death</li>
<li>communicating between levels of reality</li>
<li>recovering past-life memories</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>act with self-knowledge</li>
<li>self-care</li>
<li>protection and banishing</li>
<li>overcoming the fear of death</li>
<li>communicating between levels of reality</li>
<li>recovering past-life memories</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eoh byþ utan unsmeþe treow,<br>heard hrusan fæst, hyrde fyres,<br>wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Eoh byþ utan unsmeþe treow,<br>heard hrusan fæst, hyrde fyres,<br>wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The yew is a tree with rough bark,<br>hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots,<br>a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The yew is a tree with rough bark,<br>hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots,<br>a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Eihwaz.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Eihwaz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lethe, my love, is this the ending you sought?<br/>
Hooked up to machines until your final thought,<br/>
dependent on them for all else.<br/>
Is it quiet?<br/>
Is it peaceful at last?<br/>
Or medical cacophony until rings death knell?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lethe, my love, is this the ending you sought?<br/>
Hooked up to machines until your final thought,<br/>
dependent on them for all else.<br/>
Is it quiet?<br/>
Is it peaceful at last?<br/>
Or medical cacophony until rings death knell?</p>
<p>How many dreams I've acted in<br/>
where you've cast yourself as the savior<br/>
that provides means to escape<br/>
while from death or mortal wound you do not waver</p>
<p>How many dreams I've acted in<br/>
where you've cast yourself as the savior<br/>
that provides means to escape<br/>
while from death or mortal wound you do not waver</p>
<p>but I'd rather you chose to survive,<br/>
to not force me to say goodbye,<br/>
to slowly heal the impaled wound<br/>
instead of perishing all too soon.</p>
<p>but <strong>I'd rather you chose to survive</strong>,<br/>
to not force me to say goodbye,<br/>
to slowly heal the impaled wound<br/>
instead of perishing all too soon.</p>
<p>The cloak is nearly finished now,<br/>
orange, obsidian webbed stitching,<br/>
and I've got to see this through<br/>
to<br/>
the end,<br/>
where lies every beginning.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The cloak is nearly finished now,<br/>
orange, obsidian webbed stitching,<br/>
and I've got to see this through<br/>
to<br/>
<strong>the end,<br/>
where lies every beginning.</strong></p>
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<title>Perthro</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_pertho.svg"><img src="../img/runes/perthro.svg" alt="Perthro rune" title="Perthro rune"></a></p>
<h1>Perthro</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_pertho.svg"><img src="../img/runes/perthro.svg" alt="Perthro rune" title="Perthro rune"></a></p>
<h1>Perthro</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: divination tool</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: divination tool</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>totality of Yewiffe</li>
<li>primal womb from which all ideas flow</li>
<li>passageway between states of being</li>
<li>the future inquired about is unknown</li>
<li>a musician or entertainer</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>totality of Yewiffe</li>
<li>primal womb from which all ideas flow</li>
<li>passageway between states of being</li>
<li>the future inquired about is unknown</li>
<li>a musician or entertainer</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>this will certainly come to pass</li>
<li>you need to know</li>
<li>chaos/confusion</li>
<li>stagnation/anhedonia</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>this will certainly come to pass</li>
<li>you need to know</li>
<li>chaos/confusion</li>
<li>stagnation/anhedonia</li>
</ul>
<p>Perthro can be useful for:</p>
<p>Perthro can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>evocation of prophetic dreams</li>
<li>holding repressed memories</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>evocation of prophetic dreams</li>
<li>holding repressed memories</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter<br>wlancum [on middum], ðar wigan sittaþ<br>on beorsele bliþe ætsomne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter<br>wlancum [on middum], ðar wigan sittaþ<br>on beorsele bliþe ætsomne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Peorth is a source of recreation and amusement to the great,<br>where warriors sit blithely together in the banqueting-hall.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Peorth is a source of recreation and amusement to the great,<br>where warriors sit blithely together in the banqueting-hall.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Perthro.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Perthro.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>All that you've done so far has led me to believe<br/>
that every winter of our passing will be followed by a spring.<br/>
That, no matter how dark and cold between you and I it gets,<br/>
the clouds will eventually break and the sun will shine again.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>All that you've done so far has led me to believe<br/>
that every winter of our passing will be followed by a spring.<br/>
That, no matter how dark and cold between you and I it gets,<br/>
the clouds will eventually break and the sun will shine again.</p>
<p>But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow<br/>
when it gets longer between our touch and what words pass are cold<br/>
with disappointment, misunderstandings, or simply had a bad day<br/>
and, although still loving, cannot any measure of warmth feign.</p>
<p><strong>But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow</strong><br/>
when it gets longer between our touch and what words pass are cold<br/>
with disappointment, misunderstandings, or simply had a bad day<br/>
and, although still loving, cannot any measure of warmth feign.</p>
<p>Deep purple dice cup with thick frosting of dust<br/>
as though this were a bakery and Time held a brush<br/>
to sugar everything, last breath of a world that for me did not wait,<br/>
beckoning me to twist the lid and allow myself to play.</p>
<p>Deep purple dice cup with thick frosting of dust<br/>
as though this were a bakery and Time held a brush<br/>
to sugar everything, last breath of a world that for me did not wait,<br/>
beckoning me to twist the lid and allow myself to play.</p>
<p>"No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."<br/>
My genes mark me no different. But the only words I ever sought<br/>
were from you, my lilac spring, and even then mostly<br/>
I just wanted to know if you still loved me.</p>
<p><strong>"No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."</strong><br/>
My genes mark me no different. But the only words I ever sought<br/>
were from you, my lilac spring, and even then mostly<br/>
I just wanted to know if you still loved me.</p>
<p>My head in your lap as you lean against<br/>
a tree trunk, not Yewiffe but still offering rest.<br/>
Arboreal claws we lie intimate between,<br/>
scales ruffling above in the gentle breeze.</p>
<p>My head in your lap as you lean against<br/>
a tree trunk, not Yewiffe but still offering rest.<br/>
Arboreal claws we lie intimate between,<br/>
scales ruffling above in the gentle breeze.</p>
<p>"I don't live in Wyrd, Lethe; I'm far from a Norn.<br/>
I can't see to which fate this world has you sworn.<br/>
But this, I feel, I insist you need to know:<br/>
my love for you will always burn no matter how buried by snow."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>"I don't live in Wyrd, Lethe; I'm far from a Norn.<br/>
I can't see to which fate this world has you sworn.<br/>
But this, I feel, I insist you need to know:<br/>
my love for you will always burn no matter how buried by snow."</p>
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<title>Algiz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_algiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/algiz.svg" alt="Algiz rune" title="Algiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Algiz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_algiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/algiz.svg" alt="Algiz rune" title="Algiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Algiz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: elk</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: elk</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>strength of the spirit</li>
<li>connection to all worlds</li>
<li>birth</li>
<li>protective blessing</li>
<li>non-violent feral (hyperthomosopramia type 2) draconity</li>
<li>divine forces</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>strength of the spirit</li>
<li>connection to all worlds</li>
<li>birth</li>
<li>protective blessing</li>
<li>non-violent feral (hyperthomosopramia type 2) draconity</li>
<li>divine forces</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>need for protection</li>
<li>excessive scattering of attention</li>
<li>not standing up for yourself</li>
<li>being drained of energy</li>
<li>death</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>need for protection</li>
<li>excessive scattering of attention</li>
<li>not standing up for yourself</li>
<li>being drained of energy</li>
<li>death</li>
</ul>
<p>Algiz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Algiz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>protection and warding</li>
<li>healing injuries</li>
<li>marking what has been hallowed</li>
<li>learning how to work with others, especially those non-human</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>protection and warding</li>
<li>healing injuries</li>
<li>marking what has been hallowed</li>
<li>learning how to work with others, especially those non-human</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eolh-secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne<br>
wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme,<br>
blode breneð beorna gehwylcne<br>
ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Eolh-secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne<br>
wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme,<br>
blode breneð beorna gehwylcne<br>
ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The Eolh-sedge is mostly to be found in a marsh;<br>it grows in the water and makes a ghastly wound,<br>covering with blood every warrior who touches it.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The Eolh-sedge is mostly to be found in a marsh;<br>it grows in the water and makes a ghastly wound,<br>covering with blood every warrior who touches it.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Algiz.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Algiz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I'm clinging to your waist<br/>
like you're a floating log<br/>
and I'm halfway to drowning<br/>
not knowing how to breathe with a non-human face.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I'm clinging to your waist<br/>
like you're a floating log<br/>
and I'm halfway to drowning<br/>
not knowing how to breathe with a non-human face.</p>
<p>Someone once called me the Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
being the crossing point between so many worlds,<br/>
but I am neither bi<br/>
nor could I ever abide<br/>
frost over the surface of this roiling sea<br/>
in this metaphor of mine.<br/>
I move too violent,<br/>
too constant,<br/>
for the whole thing to freeze<br/>
over, you see.</p>
<p>Someone once called me <strong>the Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
being the crossing point between so many worlds</strong>,<br/>
but I am neither bi<br/>
nor could I ever abide<br/>
frost over the surface of this roiling sea<br/>
in this metaphor of mine.<br/>
I move too violent,<br/>
too constant,<br/>
for the whole thing to freeze<br/>
over, you see.</p>
<p>But I certainly feel like being quartered<br/>
face from hand from back from limb<br/>
trembling to keep my mind<br/>
in a bedroom lost and somehow dimmed.<br/>
Three different bloods rage inside<br/>
and two are battling for my skin<br/>
and your fingertips brushing the back of my neck,<br/>
the temples where bone and antler connect,<br/>
are the only reminder you're here to protect<br/>
me, promised by palm to keep me sane<br/>
even if draconity ever overcame<br/>
me and my body forcibly changed<br/>
to that of a beast.</p>
<p>But I certainly feel like being quartered<br/>
face from hand from back from limb<br/>
trembling to keep my mind<br/>
in a bedroom lost and somehow dimmed.<br/>
Three different bloods rage inside<br/>
and two are battling for my skin<br/>
and your fingertips brushing the back of my neck,<br/>
the temples where bone and antler connect,<br/>
are the only reminder you're here to protect<br/>
me, <strong>promised by palm to keep me sane</strong><br/>
even if draconity ever overcame<br/>
me and my body forcibly changed<br/>
to that of a beast.</p>
<p>Do you think, if a stranger ever saw,<br/>
they'd mistake me for a particularly messed-up elk?<br/>
Wonder where my eyes went, or why so blunted my maw?<br/>
A creature too exquisite for this world, too peculiar for their ilk,<br/>
have to always stay on the periphery<br/>
or in long-lost bedrooms where nobody can see<br/>
the ribbons with every breath wavering.<br/>
You will with me stay<br/>
until you can see my normal face again<br/>
and in the meantime reassure that I'm safe.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Do you think, if a stranger ever saw,<br/>
they'd mistake me for a particularly messed-up elk?<br/>
Wonder where my eyes went, or why so blunted my maw?<br/>
A creature too exquisite for this world, too peculiar for their ilk,<br/>
have to always stay on the periphery<br/>
or in long-lost bedrooms where nobody can see<br/>
the ribbons with every breath wavering.<br/>
You will with me stay<br/>
until you can see my normal face again<br/>
and in the meantime reassure that I'm safe.</p>
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<title>Sowelo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long-branch_Sol.svg"><img src="../img/runes/sowelo.svg" alt="Sowelo rune" title="Sowelo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Sowelo</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long-branch_Sol.svg"><img src="../img/runes/sowelo.svg" alt="Sowelo rune" title="Sowelo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Sowelo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: sun</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: sun</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>impending challenging surprise</li>
<li>rapid spiritual awakening</li>
<li>restorative vitality</li>
<li>blessings</li>
<li>courage</li>
<li>unpleasant unexpected change</li>
<li>you will be cared for in the end</li>
<li>escape from stagnation</li>
<li>there is reason for hope</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>impending challenging surprise</li>
<li>rapid spiritual awakening</li>
<li>restorative vitality</li>
<li>blessings</li>
<li>courage</li>
<li>unpleasant unexpected change</li>
<li>you will be cared for in the end</li>
<li>escape from stagnation</li>
<li>there is reason for hope</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>arrogance</li>
<li>cruelty</li>
<li>overreliance on external validation/guidance</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>arrogance</li>
<li>cruelty</li>
<li>overreliance on external validation/guidance</li>
</ul>
<p>Sowelo can be useful for:</p>
<p>Sowelo can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>making one's mark on the world</li>
<li>restoring one's energy</li>
<li>victory through individual will</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>making one's mark on the world</li>
<li>restoring one's energy</li>
<li>victory through individual will</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Sigel semannum symble biþ on hihte,<br>ðonne hi hine feriaþ ofer fisces beþ,<br>oþ hi brimhengest bringeþ to lande.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Sigel semannum symble biþ on hihte,<br>ðonne hi hine feriaþ ofer fisces beþ,<br>oþ hi brimhengest bringeþ to lande.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers<br>when they journey away over the fishes' bath,<br>until the courser of the deep bears them to land.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers<br>when they journey away over the fishes' bath,<br>until the courser of the deep bears them to land.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Sól er landa ljóme;<br>lúti ek helgum dóme.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Sól er landa ljóme;<br>lúti ek helgum dóme.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Sun is the light of the world;<br>I bow to the divine decree.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Sun is the light of the world;<br>I bow to the divine decree.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What comes after<br/>
disaster?<br/>
What follows<br/>
the worst possible outcome?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What comes after<br/>
disaster?<br/>
What follows<br/>
the worst possible outcome?</p>
<p>The wind in its wealth carries your words:<br/>
<i>keep going, get a move on.</i></p>
<p>The wind in its wealth carries your words:<br/>
<i>keep going, get a move on.</i></p>
<p>I was told the Eschaton<br/>
was but a cleansing that stretched out long<br/>
to destroy all that prevented me<br/>
from accepting<br/>
my title as Solstice and my being as Lethe,<br/>
but I've achieved both<br/>
and all still grows worse<br/>
and I know not how much longer I can drag<br/>
this body of mine writing verses in red<br/>
before I end up lifeless, drained, inert<br/>
in the back of a hearse.</p>
<p>I was told <strong>the Eschaton<br/>
was but a cleansing that stretched out long</strong><br/>
to destroy all that prevented me<br/>
from accepting<br/>
my title as Solstice and my being as Lethe,<br/>
but I've achieved both<br/>
and all still grows worse<br/>
and I know not how much longer I can drag<br/>
this body of mine writing verses in red<br/>
before I end up lifeless, drained, inert<br/>
in the back of a hearse.</p>
<p>You said we were palm pals, that you'd spend your life<br/>
keeping me non-feral, safe, happy at your side.<br/>
But my hand<br/>
stands<br/>
empty, cold, bleeding out<br/>
and held up to the sky to catch the sun before in clouds<br/>
it drowns.</p>
<p>You said we were palm pals, that you'd spend your life<br/>
keeping me non-feral, safe, happy at your side.<br/>
But my hand<br/>
stands<br/>
empty, cold, bleeding out<br/>
and held up to the sky to catch the sun before in clouds<br/>
it drowns.</p>
<p>How much longer to go? How much more time to wait<br/>
until the tragedy leaves me and the sorrow abates?<br/>
You promised I'd be dead by May,<br/>
assured me in the dead of night<br/>
as from anxiety I could not stifle a weep.<br/>
And I know it's not your fault<br/>
it was a promise you could not keep.<br/>
Not all in the future you can see clearly enough to tell<br/>
and even if plans are made, ever-shifting is the Veil.</p>
<p>How much longer to go? How much more time to wait<br/>
until the tragedy leaves me and the sorrow abates?<br/>
You promised I'd be dead by May,<br/>
assured me in the dead of night<br/>
as from anxiety I could not stifle a weep.<br/>
And I know it's not your fault<br/>
it was a promise you could not keep.<br/>
Not all in the future you can see clearly enough to tell<br/>
and even if plans are made, ever-shifting is the Veil.</p>
<p>Blanketed by thunder at four forty-four,<br/>
arm around my waist to hold me secure.<br/>
The moon reflects the rays of the sun,<br/>
but it cannot do so all of the time.<br/>
So when plumbs on the dark, my love,<br/>
grant me the light to survive.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Blanketed by thunder at four forty-four,<br/>
arm around my waist to hold me secure.<br/>
The moon reflects the rays of the sun,<br/>
but it cannot do so all of the time.<br/>
So when plumbs on the dark, my love,<br/>
grant me the light to survive.</p>
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<title>Tiewaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_tiwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/tiewaz.svg" alt="Tiewaz rune" title="Tiewaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Tiewaz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_tiwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/tiewaz.svg" alt="Tiewaz rune" title="Tiewaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Tiewaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Tyr</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: Tyr</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>self-discipline</li>
<li>self-reliance</li>
<li>willingness to do what is right despite the consequences</li>
<li>integrity</li>
<li>justice</li>
<li>faith/loyalty</li>
<li>keep your promises</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>self-discipline</li>
<li>self-reliance</li>
<li>willingness to do what is right despite the consequences</li>
<li>integrity</li>
<li>justice</li>
<li>faith/loyalty</li>
<li>keep your promises</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>person of malleable character and weak will</li>
<li>an untrustworthy person</li>
<li>need to step back and reconnect with one's priorities</li>
<li>run-down spirit</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>person of malleable character and weak will</li>
<li>an untrustworthy person</li>
<li>need to step back and reconnect with one's priorities</li>
<li>run-down spirit</li>
</ul>
<p>Tiewaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Tiewaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>guarding against moral relativism</li>
<li>self-regulation</li>
<li>returning to reality / linear time after trance work</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>guarding against moral relativism</li>
<li>self-regulation</li>
<li>returning to reality / linear time after trance work</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Tir biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel<br>wiþ æþelingas; a biþ on færylde<br>ofer nihta genipu, næfre swiceþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tir biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel<br>wiþ æþelingas; a biþ on færylde<br>ofer nihta genipu, næfre swiceþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tiw is a guiding star; well does it keep faith with princes;<br>it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tiw is a guiding star; well does it keep faith with princes;<br>it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Týr er æinendr ása;<br>opt værðr smiðr blása.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Týr er æinendr ása;<br>opt værðr smiðr blása.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tyr is a one-handed god;<br>often has the smith to blow.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tyr is a one-handed god;<br>often has the smith to blow.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A cruel world this is where I must choose<br/>
to live my truth<br/>
or have a place to snooze<br/>
at night, safe from thieves<br/>
or murderers or even just<br/>
the relentless and ever-encroaching heat.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A cruel world this is where I must choose<br/>
to live my truth<br/>
or have a place to snooze<br/>
at night, safe from thieves<br/>
or murderers or even just<br/>
the relentless and ever-encroaching heat.</p>
<p>Raised on tales of heroes from the sky,<br/>
but the days pass on rapidly by<br/>
and my rights disappear<br/>
into the ether<br/>
as curled up in my bed I wait to die.</p>
<p>Raised on tales of heroes from the sky,<br/>
but the days pass on rapidly by<br/>
and my rights disappear<br/>
into the ether<br/>
as curled up in my bed I wait to die.</p>
<p>Conflicting directives you have bestowed,<br/>
to not lie to myself<br/>
and yet take care of this vessel.<br/>
For so long I've been trying to vindicate<br/>
who I was this age minus eight,<br/>
angel number, all portals<br/>
to the outside world<br/>
for the crime of poetry taken away.<br/>
Keeping my mouth shut means safety<br/>
but heavy conscience, soul decay.<br/>
I might as well be no one at all.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Conflicting directives you have bestowed,<br/>
to not lie to myself<br/>
and yet take care of this vessel.<br/>
For so long I've been trying to vindicate<br/>
who I was this age minus eight,<br/>
angel number, all portals<br/>
to the outside world<br/>
for the crime of poetry taken away.<br/>
<strong>Keeping my mouth shut means safety<br/>
but heavy conscience, soul decay.</strong><br/>
I might as well be no one at all.</p>
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<title>Berkana</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_berkanan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/berkana.svg" alt="Berkana rune" title="Berkana rune"></a></p>
<h1>Berkana</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_berkanan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/berkana.svg" alt="Berkana rune" title="Berkana rune"></a></p>
<h1>Berkana</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: birch</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: birch</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>a warm reassuring hug from a lover</li>
<li>new beginnings and opportunities</li>
<li>conscious manifestation</li>
<li>pride in one's creations/actions</li>
<li>relief from pain</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>a warm reassuring hug from a lover</li>
<li>new beginnings and opportunities</li>
<li>conscious manifestation</li>
<li>pride in one's creations/actions</li>
<li>relief from pain</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>blurring of self-consciousness</li>
<li>don't allow yourself to be subsumed into Sablade</li>
<li>sterility/stagnation</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>blurring of self-consciousness</li>
<li>don't allow yourself to be subsumed into Sablade</li>
<li>sterility/stagnation</li>
</ul>
<p>Berkana can be useful for:</p>
<p>Berkana can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>gentle healing</li>
<li>getting one's energy flowing</li>
<li>creating a solid foundation</li>
<li>blessing children or a household</li>
<li>concealment</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>gentle healing</li>
<li>getting one's energy flowing</li>
<li>creating a solid foundation</li>
<li>blessing children or a household</li>
<li>concealment</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Beorc byþ bleda leas, bereþ efne swa ðeah<br>tanas butan tudder, biþ on telgum wlitig,<br>heah on helme hrysted fægere,<br>geloden leafum, lyfte getenge.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Beorc byþ bleda leas, bereþ efne swa ðeah<br>tanas butan tudder, biþ on telgum wlitig,<br>heah on helme hrysted fægere,<br>geloden leafum, lyfte getenge.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The poplar bears no fruit; yet without seed it brings forth suckers,<br>for it is generated from its leaves.<br>Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned<br>its lofty crown which reaches to the skies.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The poplar bears no fruit; yet without seed it brings forth suckers,<br>for it is generated from its leaves.<br>Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned<br>its lofty crown which reaches to the skies.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Bjarkan er laufgrønstr líma;<br>Loki bar flærða tíma.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Bjarkan er laufgrønstr líma;<br>Loki bar flærða tíma.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Birch has the greenest leaves of any shrub;<br>Loki was fortunate in his deceit.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Birch has the greenest leaves of any shrub;<br>Loki was fortunate in his deceit.</blockquote>
<p>A modern rune poem:</p>
<p>A modern rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lethe Berkana Beltane.<br/>
From this rune<br/>
I took my middle name<br/>
in hopes of carrying with me always<br/>
the warmth of an early spring day,<br/>
a gentle impassioned hug from my wife,<br/>
the promise that soon all will be okay<br/>
and together we'll build a kinder life.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lethe Berkana Beltane.<br/>
From this rune<br/>
I took my middle name<br/>
in hopes of carrying with me always<br/>
the warmth of an early spring day,<br/>
<strong>a gentle impassioned hug from my wife</strong>,<br/>
the promise that soon all will be okay<br/>
and <strong>together we'll build a kinder life.</strong></p>
<p>Berkana makes things grow,<br/>
even after the storms have thrown<br/>
all down<br/>
in shambles onto the ground.<br/>
The seedling that blooms after wildfire,<br/>
alone amidst the ashes.<br/>
Blaze<br/>
razed<br/>
down the treetops, and now sunlight<br/>
through the skeletal branches<br/>
passes.</p>
<p>Berkana makes things grow,<br/>
even after the storms have thrown<br/>
all down<br/>
in shambles onto the ground.<br/>
<strong>The seedling that blooms after wildfire</strong>,<br/>
alone amidst the ashes.<br/>
Blaze<br/>
razed<br/>
down the treetops, and now sunlight<br/>
through the skeletal branches<br/>
passes.</p>
<p>"Keep going, Lethe,"<br/>
my wife to me beseeches.<br/>
"You have every right to take pride<br/>
in how long against everything you've survived.<br/>
Stand strong and steal what you can from this world of men<br/>
and I promise you I'll make it worth your effort in the end."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>"Keep going, Lethe,"<br/>
my wife to me beseeches.<br/>
"You have every right to take pride<br/>
in how long against everything you've survived.<br/>
Stand strong and steal what you can from this world of men<br/>
and I promise you I'll make it worth your effort in the end."</p>
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<title>Ehwaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ehwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ehwaz.svg" title="Ehwaz rune" alt="Ehwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ehwaz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ehwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ehwaz.svg" title="Ehwaz rune" alt="Ehwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ehwaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: horse</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: horse</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>journeying between worlds</li>
<li>possession (in the exorcism sense)</li>
<li>rapid change</li>
<li>presence of the divine</li>
<li>extension of strength through union (no loss of individuality)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>journeying between worlds</li>
<li>possession (in the exorcism sense)</li>
<li>rapid change</li>
<li>presence of the divine</li>
<li>extension of strength through union (no loss of individuality)</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>blockage of energy</li>
<li>loss of a relationship</li>
<li>being subsumed into one's partner</li>
<li>paralysis from anxiety disorder / executive dysfunction</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>blockage of energy</li>
<li>loss of a relationship</li>
<li>being subsumed into one's partner</li>
<li>paralysis from anxiety disorder / executive dysfunction</li>
</ul>
<p>Ehwaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Ehwaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>opening doors/opportunities</li>
<li>going to a better place/situation</li>
<li>communicating/travelling on the temporal plane</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>opening doors/opportunities</li>
<li>going to a better place/situation</li>
<li>communicating/travelling on the temporal plane</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eh byþ for eorlum æþelinga wyn,<br>hors hofum wlanc, ðær him hæleþ ymb[e]<br>welege on wicgum wrixlaþ spræce<br>and biþ unstyllum æfre frofur.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Eh byþ for eorlum æþelinga wyn,<br>hors hofum wlanc, ðær him hæleþ ymb[e]<br>welege on wicgum wrixlaþ spræce<br>and biþ unstyllum æfre frofur.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors.<br>A steed in the pride of its hoofs,<br>when rich men on horseback bandy words about it;<br>and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors.<br>A steed in the pride of its hoofs,<br>when rich men on horseback bandy words about it;<br>and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ehwaz.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ehwaz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A full belly, bonfire blazing<br/>
just a little bit away,<br/>
saved a place<br/>
for me in the circle of friends<br/>
as the sun dips below and day comes to an end.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A full belly, bonfire blazing<br/>
just a little bit away,<br/>
saved a place<br/>
for me in the circle of friends<br/>
as the sun dips below and day comes to an end.</p>
<p>Your arms are the only chariot I trust,<br/>
whether half-asleep in drowsy lust<br/>
or the fateful day my vessel decides<br/>
it's time to return to dust.<br/>
How gently<br/>
you will exhume me from my body,<br/>
whisk me so swiftly away<br/>
to a hospital in a place I cannot here name<br/>
to evade<br/>
the Second Death.<br/>
You promised you'd never leave me behind,<br/>
and as long as in your embrace I am<br/>
I am assured of your vow I am not bereft.</p>
<p>Your arms are the only chariot I trust,<br/>
whether half-asleep in drowsy lust<br/>
or the fateful day my vessel decides<br/>
it's time to return to dust.<br/>
<strong>How gently<br/>
you will exhume me from my body,<br/>
whisk me so swiftly away</strong><br/>
to a hospital in a place I cannot here name<br/>
to evade<br/>
the Second Death.<br/>
You promised you'd never leave me behind,<br/>
and as long as in your embrace I am<br/>
I am assured of your vow I am not bereft.</p>
<p>Psychopomp and Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
the two of us whose entire fates hinge<br/>
on being able to pass between worlds.<br/>
The first colors to breach the metaclysma:<br/>
speckled red and shiny merle.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Psychopomp and Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
the two of us whose entire fates hinge<br/>
on <strong>being able to pass between worlds</strong>.<br/>
The first colors to breach the metaclysma:<br/>
speckled red and shiny merle.</p>
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<title>Mannaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_mannaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/mannaz.svg" alt="Mannaz rune" title="Mannaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Mannaz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_mannaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/mannaz.svg" alt="Mannaz rune" title="Mannaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Mannaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: man</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: man</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>balanced partnership</li>
<li>romantic attachments or marriage</li>
<li>maintaining one's independence</li>
<li>healthy cooperation with others</li>
<li>humanity</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>balanced partnership</li>
<li>romantic attachments or marriage</li>
<li>maintaining one's independence</li>
<li>healthy cooperation with others</li>
<li>humanity</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>an enemy</li>
<li>distrust</li>
<li>overbearing polymorphic blood</li>
<li>depression because of hopelessness</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>an enemy</li>
<li>distrust</li>
<li>overbearing polymorphic blood</li>
<li>depression because of hopelessness</li>
</ul>
<p>Mannaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Mannaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>learning/maintaining healthy social boundaries</li>
<li>increasing one's intelligence/memory/powers</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>learning/maintaining healthy social boundaries</li>
<li>increasing one's intelligence/memory/powers</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Man byþ on myrgþe his magan leof:<br>sceal þeah anra gehwylc oðrum swican,<br>forðum drihten wyle dome sine<br>þæt earme flæsc eorþan betæcan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Man byþ on myrgþe his magan leof:<br>sceal þeah anra gehwylc oðrum swican,<br>forðum drihten wyle dome sine<br>þæt earme flæsc eorþan betæcan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen;<br>yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow,<br>since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen;<br>yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow,<br>since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Maðr er moldar auki;<br>mikil er græip á hauki.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Maðr er moldar auki;<br>mikil er græip á hauki.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Man is an augmentation of the dust;<br>great is the claw of the hawk.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Man is an augmentation of the dust;<br>great is the claw of the hawk.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our cooperation<br/>
enhances our freedom.<br/>
It seems like a paradox, but it's true.<br/>
Think about it: if you come down with the flu<br/>
or a cold or some other illness,<br/>
while you suffer in bed, who will protect you?<br/>
Me, because I am here.<br/>
I will care for you, ensure<br/>
you have what you need.<br/>
If I while hunting or gathering food<br/>
an awful injury suffer,<br/>
who will carry me home?<br/>
Who will tend to my wounds?<br/>
You, with your strong arms<br/>
and our connection sans Veil,<br/>
location always known.<br/>
Come,<br/>
my love,<br/>
let us fill the gaps in each other,<br/>
let us our blind spots cover.<br/>
The strength to do together what neither can alone:<br/>
to carve out a world and maintain a home.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Our cooperation<br/>
enhances our freedom.</strong><br/>
It seems like a paradox, but it's true.<br/>
Think about it: if you come down with the flu<br/>
or a cold or some other illness,<br/>
while you suffer in bed, who will protect you?<br/>
Me, because I am here.<br/>
I will care for you, ensure<br/>
you have what you need.<br/>
If I while hunting or gathering food<br/>
an awful injury suffer,<br/>
who will carry me home?<br/>
Who will tend to my wounds?<br/>
You, with your strong arms<br/>
and our connection sans Veil,<br/>
location always known.<br/>
Come,<br/>
my love,<br/>
<strong>let us fill the gaps in each other,<br/>
let us our blind spots cover.<br/>
The strength to do together what neither can alone</strong>:<br/>
to carve out a world and maintain a home.</p>
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<title>Laguz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_laukaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/laguz.svg" alt="Laguz rune" title="Laguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Laguz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_laukaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/laguz.svg" alt="Laguz rune" title="Laguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Laguz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: water</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: water</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>use of magical energy</li>
<li>sexual tension</li>
<li>shape-shifting</li>
<li>manifestation of desire</li>
<li>creation of magical illusions/glamours</li>
<li>bending the will of others</li>
<li>you can survive the tests ahead</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>use of magical energy</li>
<li>sexual tension</li>
<li>shape-shifting</li>
<li>manifestation of desire</li>
<li>creation of magical illusions/glamours</li>
<li>bending the will of others</li>
<li>you can survive the tests ahead</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>fear of the unknown</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>fear of the unknown</li>
</ul>
<p>Laguz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Laguz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>manipulating magical energy</li>
<li>shifting one's awareness to other layers of reality</li>
<li>bending people to your will</li>
<li>feeding/creating a magical illusion</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>manipulating magical energy</li>
<li>shifting one's awareness to other layers of reality</li>
<li>bending people to your will</li>
<li>feeding/creating a magical illusion</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Lagu byþ leodum langsum geþuht,<br>gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum<br>and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ<br>and se brimhengest bridles ne gym[eð].</blockquote>
<blockquote>Lagu byþ leodum langsum geþuht,<br>gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum<br>and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ<br>and se brimhengest bridles ne gym[eð].</blockquote>
<blockquote>The ocean seems interminable to men,<br>if they venture on the rolling bark<br>and the waves of the sea terrify them<br>and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The ocean seems interminable to men,<br>if they venture on the rolling bark<br>and the waves of the sea terrify them<br>and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Lo,gr er, fællr ór fjalle<br>foss; en gull ero nosser.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Lo,gr er, fællr ór fjalle<br>foss; en gull ero nosser.</blockquote>
<blockquote>A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;<br>but ornaments are of gold.</blockquote>
<blockquote>A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;<br>but ornaments are of gold.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"I've always found it strange<br/>
that, in hypotheticals<br/>
of you losing control and going feral,<br/>
you always imagine your draconic form.<br/>
Not the one, the chaotic, proven to,<br/>
when lost control, cause massive harm.<br/>
What's up with that, Lethe?<br/>
I mean,<br/>
I'm not saying I want either to happen,<br/>
but you're so focused on one<br/>
that you discount the other's chances."</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"I've always found it strange<br/>
that, in hypotheticals<br/>
of <strong>you losing control and going feral</strong>,<br/>
you always imagine your draconic form.<br/>
Not the one, the chaotic, proven to,<br/>
when lost control, cause massive harm.<br/>
What's up with that, Lethe?<br/>
I mean,<br/>
I'm not saying I want either to happen,<br/>
but you're so focused on one<br/>
that you discount the other's chances."</p>
<p>I... I don't know, in all honesty.<br/>
I have no concrete answers to give,<br/>
no easy explanation that will relieve.</p>
<p>I... I don't know, in all honesty.<br/>
I have no concrete answers to give,<br/>
no easy explanation that will relieve.</p>
<p>I guess because...<br/>
in the former form I'm slender and elegant,<br/>
and maybe I associate it with intelligence,<br/>
and so I'm more likely to retain<br/>
some semblance of myself amidst the insane?</p>
<p>I guess because...<br/>
in the former form I'm slender and elegant,<br/>
and maybe I associate it with intelligence,<br/>
and so I'm more likely to retain<br/>
some semblance of myself amidst the insane?</p>
<p>Because part of the fantasy<br/>
is you managing to rescue me?</p>
<p>Because part of the fantasy<br/>
is you managing to rescue me?</p>
<p>I know you said<br/>
you wanted to spend<br/>
your whole life at my side,<br/>
but I don't want you here if to you<br/>
this is just another sacrifice,<br/>
if you're throwing away your happiness<br/>
just to keep the worlds in safety and bliss-</p>
<p>I know you said<br/>
you wanted to spend<br/>
your whole life at my side,<br/>
but I don't want you here if to you<br/>
this is just another sacrifice,<br/>
if you're throwing away your happiness<br/>
just to keep the worlds in safety and bliss-</p>
<p>"That's... not what I meant at all.<br/>
I just want us to be prepared<br/>
in case you ever come under the thrall<br/>
of another evil-seeking god.<br/>
You <i>eat</i> gods, you know. Are you aware?<br/>
With your tail you reave whole worlds to shreds<br/>
and suck souls dry until there's nothing left.<br/>
If you must be in the hands of someone,<br/>
let those hands be mine,<br/>
who has loved you since what feels like<br/>
the beginning of time<br/>
itself.<br/>
You trust me, don't you?<br/>
To not put you through hell?"</p>
<p>"That's... not what I meant at all.<br/>
I just want us to be prepared<br/>
in case you ever come under the thrall<br/>
of another evil-seeking god.<br/>
You <i>eat</i> gods, you know. Are you aware?<br/>
With your tail you reave whole worlds to shreds<br/>
and suck souls dry until there's nothing left.<br/>
If you must be in the hands of someone,<br/>
let those hands be mine,<br/>
who has loved you since what feels like<br/>
the beginning of time<br/>
itself.<br/>
You trust me, don't you?<br/>
To not put you through hell?"</p>
<p>Of course. I trust you with all that I am<br/>
even after my very last death knell.<br/>
I think, if I should ever go feral,<br/>
it should be in the form that forgets the least<br/>
so you can bring me back to sanity<br/>
with the utmost of ease.<br/>
After all, I think I'd like to remain<br/>
an (arch)angel for the rest of my days<br/>
since only then do I have the hands,<br/>
the face, the voice to say:</p>
<p>Of course. I trust you with all that I am<br/>
even after my very last death knell.<br/>
I think, if I should ever go feral,<br/>
it should be in the form that forgets the least<br/>
so you can bring me back to sanity<br/>
with the utmost of ease.<br/>
After all, I think I'd like to remain<br/>
an (arch)angel for the rest of my days<br/>
since only then do I have the hands,<br/>
the face, the voice to say:</p>
<p>"I love you."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>"I love you."</p>
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<title>Inguz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ingwaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/inguz.svg" alt="Inguz rune" title="Inguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Inguz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ingwaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/inguz.svg" alt="Inguz rune" title="Inguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Inguz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Ing/Frey</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: Ing/Frey</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>doorway home</li>
<li>completion &amp; beginning of new cycle</li>
<li>repressed memories</li>
<li>things you need to improve on</li>
<li>fertility and renewal</li>
<li>sacrifice of the self to further self-growth</li>
<li>pregnancy</li>
<li>a period of isolated rest</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>doorway home</li>
<li>completion &amp; beginning of new cycle</li>
<li>repressed memories</li>
<li>things you need to improve on</li>
<li>fertility and renewal</li>
<li>sacrifice of the self to further self-growth</li>
<li>pregnancy</li>
<li>a period of isolated rest</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>infertility</li>
<li>a project still underway</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>infertility</li>
<li>a project still underway</li>
</ul>
<p>Inguz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Inguz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>warding/protecting children</li>
<li>keeping out negative energy</li>
<li>casting glamours</li>
<li>scrying and astral journeying</li>
<li>storing magical power for later use</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>warding/protecting children</li>
<li>keeping out negative energy</li>
<li>casting glamours</li>
<li>scrying and astral journeying</li>
<li>storing magical power for later use</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ing wæs ærest mid East-Denum<br>gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan est<br>ofer wæg gewat; wæn æfter ran;<br>ðus Heardingas ðone hæle nemdun.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ing wæs ærest mid East-Denum<br>gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan est<br>ofer wæg gewat; wæn æfter ran;<br>ðus Heardingas ðone hæle nemdun.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ing was first seen by men among the East-Danes,<br>till, followed by his chariot,<br>he departed eastwards over the waves.<br>So the Heardingas named the hero.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ing was first seen by men among the East-Danes,<br>till, followed by his chariot,<br>he departed eastwards over the waves.<br>So the Heardingas named the hero.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Inguz.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Inguz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Why are you crying?<br/>
We are going to be reunited<br/>
before the sun rises.<br/>
Before twelve more hours pass<br/>
I will be in your steady arms at last."</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Why are you crying?<br/>
We are going to be reunited<br/>
before the sun rises.<br/>
<strong>Before twelve more hours pass<br/>
I will be in your steady arms at last.</strong>"</p>
<p>Because I must ask you, dear friend,<br/>
to return to the Inside<br/>
because there is a task for you yet.</p>
<p>Because I must ask you, dear friend,<br/>
to return to the Inside<br/>
because there is a task for you yet.</p>
<p>This swampy murky place<br/>
has done a number on your psyche.<br/>
I know that you carried some guilt<br/>
at Rainroom's last painful parting,<br/>
but here it's turned up to twenty-eight.<br/>
I don't for the life of me understand<br/>
why you agonize<br/>
over something that happened in fourth grade<br/>
or why you feel things would have turned out better<br/>
had you to certain individuals been able to say goodbye.<br/>
Isn't this what you wanted, Lethe?<br/>
To disappear from their gaze<br/>
without a trace?</p>
<p>This swampy murky place<br/>
has done a number on your psyche.<br/>
I know that you carried some guilt<br/>
at Rainroom's last painful parting,<br/>
but here it's turned up to twenty-eight.<br/>
<strong>I don't for the life of me understand<br/>
why you agonize<br/>
over something that happened in fourth grade</strong><br/>
or why you feel things would have turned out better<br/>
had you to certain individuals been able to say goodbye.<br/>
Isn't this what you wanted, Lethe?<br/>
To disappear from their gaze<br/>
without a trace?</p>
<p>This guilt is a rock in your hands.<br/>
Hold it, feel its heft,<br/>
every jagged edge.<br/>
You carry this around everywhere.<br/>
For what purposes? To what end?<br/>
A bludgeon to hold at arm's<br/>
length<br/>
to try to ensure you can't ever be harmed<br/>
again?</p>
<p>This guilt is a rock in your hands.<br/>
Hold it, feel its heft,<br/>
every jagged edge.<br/>
You carry this around everywhere.<br/>
For what purposes? To what end?<br/>
A bludgeon to hold at arm's<br/>
length<br/>
to try to ensure you can't ever be harmed<br/>
again?</p>
<p>There is nothing that can be done<br/>
for most of these,<br/>
and for those that can, attempts to appease<br/>
would just reopen old wounds and make matters worse.<br/>
Please,<br/>
Lethe,<br/>
just accept that<br/>
some people will dislike you no matter what.</p>
<p>There is nothing that can be done<br/>
for most of these,<br/>
and for those that can, attempts to appease<br/>
would just reopen old wounds and make matters worse.<br/>
Please,<br/>
Lethe,<br/>
just accept that<br/>
some people will dislike you no matter what.</p>
<p>And some people love you despite all that you've done.</p>
<p>And some people love you despite all that you've done.</p>
<p>Some know your entire herstory,<br/>
even the parts they themselves did not see,<br/>
and choose to love you anyway.</p>
<p>Some know your entire herstory,<br/>
even the parts they themselves did not see,<br/>
and choose to love you anyway.</p>
<p>If they can do so knowing no motives,<br/>
then I see no reason you must<br/>
with the heavy weight of guilt live.</p>
<p>If they can do so knowing no motives,<br/>
then I see no reason you must<br/>
with the heavy weight of guilt live.</p>
<p>You can set<br/>
the rock<br/>
down. You can shed<br/>
the burden.<br/>
This paradox<br/>
of a task:<br/>
to not act,<br/>
to not harm<br/>
yourself any longer.</p>
<p>You can set<br/>
the rock<br/>
down. You can shed<br/>
the burden.<br/>
This paradox<br/>
of a task:<br/>
to not act,<br/>
to not harm<br/>
yourself any longer.</p>
<p>And so I too must set you down<br/>
back into your body on the bloodstrewn ground,<br/>
alive and healed and undead.<br/>
I'll keep my promise eventually, I swear;<br/>
the end is within sight.<br/>
I just need you<br/>
to do<br/>
this one thing<br/>
before your vessel will let itself die.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And so I too must set you down<br/>
back into your body on the bloodstrewn ground,<br/>
alive and healed and undead.<br/>
I'll keep my promise eventually, I swear;<br/>
the end is within sight.<br/>
I just need you<br/>
to do<br/>
this one thing<br/>
before your vessel will let itself die.</p>
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<title>Dagaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_dagaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/dagaz.svg" alt="Dagaz rune" title="Dagaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Dagaz</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_dagaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/dagaz.svg" alt="Dagaz rune" title="Dagaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Dagaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: day</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: day</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>transformation</li>
<li>awakening</li>
<li>life-shattering change</li>
<li>usually positive</li>
<li>dynamic union of opposites</li>
<li>good things are coming</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>transformation</li>
<li>awakening</li>
<li>life-shattering change</li>
<li>usually positive</li>
<li>dynamic union of opposites</li>
<li>good things are coming</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>impending apocalypse</li>
<li>hopelessness</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>impending apocalypse</li>
<li>hopelessness</li>
</ul>
<p>Dagaz can be useful for:</p>
<p>Dagaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>revealing the truth of a situation</li>
<li>covertly turning a situation to one's advantage</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>revealing the truth of a situation</li>
<li>covertly turning a situation to one's advantage</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Dæg byþ drihtnes sond, deore mannum,<br>mære metodes leoht, myrgþ and tohiht<br>eadgum and earmum, eallum brice.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Dæg byþ drihtnes sond, deore mannum,<br>mære metodes leoht, myrgþ and tohiht<br>eadgum and earmum, eallum brice.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Day, the glorious light of the Creator, is sent by the Lord;<br>it is beloved of men, a source of hope and happiness to rich and poor,<br>and of service to all.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Day, the glorious light of the Creator, is sent by the Lord;<br>it is beloved of men, a source of hope and happiness to rich and poor,<br>and of service to all.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Dagaz.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Dagaz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Mornings are my least favorite time<br/>
for when the clouds move to the darkness break<br/>
the sun glares bright<br/>
and I awake<br/>
and you are forced by the light<br/>
to go away.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Mornings are my least favorite time<br/>
for when the clouds move to the darkness break<br/>
the sun glares bright<br/>
and I awake<br/>
and you are forced by the light<br/>
to go away.</p>
<p>Brain fog rolling in, skies all white<br/>
and overcast. Temperature far too high<br/>
to drag myself to Dead End Shrine<br/>
for a taste of self-carved self-stolen divine.<br/>
Nothing much to do, except myself drag<br/>
out of bed long enough to write.</p>
<p>Brain fog rolling in, skies all white<br/>
and overcast. Temperature far too high<br/>
to drag myself to Dead End Shrine<br/>
for a taste of self-carved self-stolen divine.<br/>
Nothing much to do, except myself drag<br/>
out of bed long enough to write.</p>
<p>The day drags on me like a wet blanket<br/>
and I fail to see how this is "restoration"<br/>
to be so beat upon<br/>
by an uncaring sun.<br/>
I can only see my wife<br/>
when falls upon the earth the covering of night<br/>
or when the bedroom window blinds are drawn<br/>
and I spend whole afternoons in Morpheus' song.</p>
<p>The day drags on me like a wet blanket<br/>
and I fail to see how this is "restoration"<br/>
to be so beat upon<br/>
by an uncaring sun.<br/>
<strong>I can only see my wife<br/>
when falls upon the earth the covering of night<br/>
or when the bedroom window blinds are drawn<br/>
and I spend whole afternoons in Morpheus' song.</strong></p>
<p>I heard in a half-whispered voice<br/>
that the glittering myth<br/>
would once again come to live<br/>
and that I should rejoice.<br/>
But what if things go wrong?<br/>
What if the details come out mangled?<br/>
Dagaz on its side, hourglass,<br/>
seconds turning to hours and days that will pass,<br/>
recounting to myself<br/>
every time you have held<br/>
me in your arms.</p>
<p>I heard in a half-whispered voice<br/>
that the glittering myth<br/>
would once again come to live<br/>
and that I should rejoice.<br/>
But what if things go wrong?<br/>
What if the details come out mangled?<br/>
Dagaz on its side, hourglass,<br/>
seconds turning to hours and days that will pass,<br/>
recounting to myself<br/>
every time you have held<br/>
me in your arms.</p>
<p>I know not what I'll do if something is changed<br/>
in that world I have only ever caught a glimpse<br/>
of, have explored only a fraction in my dreams.<br/>
How will I recount<br/>
the foresting bomb that became a Town,<br/>
the winterous snowed-in cave<br/>
where you abandoned me and then came<br/>
back demanding answers, the Rainroom<br/>
with part-exchange of souls and my doom?<br/>
What is a miracle to others is my apocalypse.</p>
<p>I know not what I'll do if something is changed<br/>
in that world I have only ever caught a glimpse<br/>
of, have explored only a fraction in my dreams.<br/>
How will I recount<br/>
the foresting bomb that became a Town,<br/>
the winterous snowed-in cave<br/>
where you abandoned me and then came<br/>
back demanding answers, the Rainroom<br/>
with part-exchange of souls and my doom?<br/>
What is a miracle to others is my apocalypse.</p>
<p>What is the answer<br/>
to so many prayers,<br/>
mine in the past included,<br/>
is now a lifetime perdition's portent.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What is the answer<br/>
to so many prayers,<br/>
mine in the past included,<br/>
is now a lifetime perdition's portent.</p>
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<title>Othala</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_othalan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/othala.svg" alt="Othala rune" title="Othala rune"></a></p>
<h1>Othala</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_othalan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/othala.svg" alt="Othala rune" title="Othala rune"></a></p>
<h1>Othala</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: homeland</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: homeland</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>your home and all you own</li>
<li>inheritance</li>
<li>lawful ownership</li>
<li>stability and protection</li>
<li>true freedom in having a secure base</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>your home and all you own</li>
<li>inheritance</li>
<li>lawful ownership</li>
<li>stability and protection</li>
<li>true freedom in having a secure base</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>a need to reevaluate one's actions and priorities</li>
<li>reconnect with the source of your strength</li>
<li>homelessness</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>a need to reevaluate one's actions and priorities</li>
<li>reconnect with the source of your strength</li>
<li>homelessness</li>
</ul>
<p>Othala can be useful for:</p>
<p>Othala can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>ancestral work</li>
<li>maintaining order</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>ancestral work</li>
<li>maintaining order</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eþel byþ oferleof æghwylcum men,<br>gif he mot ðær rihtes and gerysena on<br>brucan on bolde bleadum oftast.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Eþel byþ oferleof æghwylcum men,<br>gif he mot ðær rihtes and gerysena on<br>brucan on bolde bleadum oftast.</blockquote>
<blockquote>An estate is very dear to every man,<br>if he can enjoy there in his house<br>whatever is right and proper in constant prosperity.</blockquote>
<blockquote>An estate is very dear to every man,<br>if he can enjoy there in his house<br>whatever is right and proper in constant prosperity.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Othala.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Othala.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I fear I am being driven mad<br/>
by forces I do not understand,<br/>
have no hopes of coming to terms with,<br/>
much less explaining to kin and kith<br/>
this world that I belong to,<br/>
these spirits I must be in league with.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I fear I am being driven mad<br/>
by forces I do not understand,<br/>
have no hopes of coming to terms with,<br/>
much less explaining to kin and kith<br/>
this world that I belong to,<br/>
these spirits I must be in league with.</p>
<p>For this is<br/>
the inheritance<br/>
of my blood,<br/>
this homeland I carry everywhere I go<br/>
and cannot ever hope to escape from.<br/>
These three errant and conflicting strains<br/>
each with its own legitimate claim<br/>
over my body, my heart, my soul.</p>
<p>For <strong>this is<br/>
the inheritance<br/>
of my blood,<br/>
this homeland I carry everywhere I go<br/>
and cannot ever hope to escape from.</strong><br/>
These three errant and conflicting strains<br/>
each with its own legitimate claim<br/>
over my body, my heart, my soul.</p>
<p>There's a fourth that dormant within me resides,<br/>
but it hasn't reared its head in a very long time.<br/>
Neither do I miss it, no blessing it could give<br/>
but instead the curse of a biological imperative<br/>
that I would sooner from me excise.</p>
<p>There's a fourth that dormant within me resides,<br/>
but it hasn't reared its head in a very long time.<br/>
Neither do I miss it, no blessing it could give<br/>
but instead the curse of a biological imperative<br/>
that I would sooner from me excise.</p>
<p>Unlike my siblings of lives long gone by,<br/>
I do not accept that it is my duty<br/>
to create a world and in the process die.<br/>
What is the point, if at the end,<br/>
I am not still living?<br/>
What is the point of fulfilling it when,<br/>
if I perished in the process, you could never be happy?</p>
<p>Unlike my siblings of lives long gone by,<br/>
I do not accept that it is my duty<br/>
to create a world and in the process die.<br/>
What is the point, if at the end,<br/>
I am not still living?<br/>
What is the point of fulfilling it when,<br/>
if I perished in the process, you could never be happy?</p>
<p>If one of them could awake from oblivion<br/>
and on this gnarly life of mine pass judgment,<br/>
what would they say?</p>
<p>If one of them could awake from oblivion<br/>
and on this gnarly life of mine pass judgment,<br/>
what would they say?</p>
<p>"How well you retained a sense of individuality.<br/>
Tell me, Lethe, would you consider yourself among the happy?<br/>
Was it worth the sleepless nights, the gut twists, the migraines,<br/>
all to your duty as a Meridian abdicate?"</p>
<p>"How well you retained a sense of individuality.<br/>
Tell me, Lethe, would you consider yourself among the happy?<br/>
Was it worth the sleepless nights, the gut twists, the migraines,<br/>
all to your duty as a Meridian abdicate?"</p>
<p>And to that, I would take my lover's hand<br/>
and whisper, "Yes, I think the aches<br/>
in my bones will be worth the wait.<br/>
Maybe you never knew this, sibling.<br/>
Maybe you never understood<br/>
homes don't have to be built by sacrifice<br/>
and <i>I don't think they should.</i><br/>
I don't know what gave birth to me<br/>
or if of life they'd still think me worthy,<br/>
but I care not. My lover<br/>
is the only standard<br/>
I recognize,<br/>
and this new world built by these<br/>
hands of mine<br/>
the only homeland."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And to that, I would take my lover's hand<br/>
and whisper, "Yes, I think the aches<br/>
in my bones will be worth the wait.<br/>
Maybe you never knew this, sibling.<br/>
Maybe you never understood<br/>
homes don't have to be built by sacrifice<br/>
and <i>I don't think they should.</i><br/>
I don't know what gave birth to me<br/>
or if of life they'd still think me worthy,<br/>
but I care not. My lover<br/>
is the only standard<br/>
I recognize,<br/>
and this new world built by these<br/>
hands of mine<br/>
the only homeland."</p>
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<title>Ear</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ear.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ear.svg" alt="Ear rune" title="Ear rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ear</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ear.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ear.svg" alt="Ear rune" title="Ear rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ear</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: hanging tree / grave</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: hanging tree / grave</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>death and loss are part of life</li>
<li>for one thing to live, another must die</li>
<li>your life needs a reboot</li>
<li>it is certain your life will be radically upended</li>
<li>all you can control is how you react to it</li>
<li>passage from one state of being to another</li>
<li>let go and move on</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>death and loss are part of life</li>
<li>for one thing to live, another must die</li>
<li>your life needs a reboot</li>
<li>it is certain your life will be radically upended</li>
<li>all you can control is how you react to it</li>
<li>passage from one state of being to another</li>
<li>let go and move on</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>Jett's promise ("I will never leave you behind")</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Jett's promise ("I will never leave you behind")</li>
</ul>
<p>Ear can be useful for:</p>
<p>Ear can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>welcoming gradual but inevitable change</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>welcoming gradual but inevitable change</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ear byþ egle eorla gehwylcun,<br>ðonn[e] fæstlice flæsc onginneþ,<br>hraw colian, hrusan ceosan<br>blac to gebeddan; bleda gedreosaþ,<br>wynna gewitaþ, wera geswicaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ear byþ egle eorla gehwylcun,<br>ðonn[e] fæstlice flæsc onginneþ,<br>hraw colian, hrusan ceosan<br>blac to gebeddan; bleda gedreosaþ,<br>wynna gewitaþ, wera geswicaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The grave is horrible to every knight,<br>when the corpse quickly begins to cool<br>and is laid in the bosom of the dark earth.<br>Prosperity declines, happiness passes away<br>and covenants are broken.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The grave is horrible to every knight,<br>when the corpse quickly begins to cool<br>and is laid in the bosom of the dark earth.<br>Prosperity declines, happiness passes away<br>and covenants are broken.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ear.</p>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ear.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Death and loss are a part of life.<br/>
For one thing to live, another must die,<br/>
or maybe a great many things,<br/>
the blood on my hands accumulating over time.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Death and loss are a part of life.<br/>
For one thing to live, another must die</strong>,<br/>
or maybe a great many things,<br/>
the blood on my hands accumulating over time.</p>
<p>When our bodies have decayed<br/>
and the earth has our flesh reclaimed,<br/>
it will for archeologists be hard<br/>
to tell our skeletons apart.<br/>
And that is if they can even plumb Yewiffe,<br/>
can descend down the roots of that massive tree<br/>
where tangled and intertwined lies<br/>
the forgotten, the repressed, the passed parts of my life.</p>
<p>When our bodies have decayed<br/>
and the earth has our flesh reclaimed,<br/>
it will for archeologists be hard<br/>
to tell our skeletons apart.<br/>
And that is if they can even plumb Yewiffe,<br/>
can descend down the roots of that massive tree<br/>
where tangled and intertwined lies<br/>
the forgotten, the repressed, the passed parts of my life.</p>
<p>Maybe one of them will find<br/>
a moment that has yet to happen<br/>
where my parents finally of my wretched blood ken<br/>
and toss me out onto the streets.<br/>
This is, of course, if they do not deem<br/>
me a demon, a thief,<br/>
a persistent adept-at-lying possessor<br/>
of what they all this time called their daughter<br/>
and grant me at their own hands a slaughter.</p>
<p>Maybe one of them will find<br/>
a moment that has yet to happen<br/>
where my parents finally of my wretched blood ken<br/>
and toss me out onto the streets.<br/>
This is, of course, if they do not deem<br/>
me a demon, a thief,<br/>
a persistent adept-at-lying possessor<br/>
of what they all this time called their daughter<br/>
and grant me at their own hands a slaughter.</p>
<p>For this to come to pass I know is certain,<br/>
for even the best of my secrets I could not hide forever.<br/>
In Ragnarok even the gods from their lives were severed.<br/>
It mattered not<br/>
how mightily anyone fought:<br/>
for all ill-fated was drawn life's curtain.</p>
<p>For this to come to pass I know is certain,<br/>
for even the best of my secrets I could not hide forever.<br/>
In Ragnarok even the gods from their lives were severed.<br/>
<strong>It mattered not<br/>
how mightily anyone fought:<br/>
for all ill-fated was drawn life's curtain.</p>
<p>All that anyone could control<br/>
was how they reacted to it,<br/>
how the coming end they greeted.</p>
<p>All that anyone could control<br/>
was how they reacted to it,<br/>
how the coming end they greeted.</strong></p>
<p>And the coming end I seek,<br/>
if this is the fate I am doomed to keep,<br/>
is that this time<br/>
for once in my life<br/>
I do not from my beliefs<br/>
back down.<br/>
Instead of snapping in the hurricane,<br/>
I rest on these roots dug so deep<br/>
and refuse to recant my name.</p>
<p>And the coming end I seek,<br/>
if this is the fate I am doomed to keep,<br/>
is that this time<br/>
for once in my life<br/>
I do not from my beliefs<br/>
back down.<br/>
Instead of snapping in the hurricane,<br/>
I rest on these roots dug so deep<br/>
and refuse to recant my name.</p>
<p>And when I die,<br/>
I will be able to look you in the eyes<br/>
with no burning guilt and no unsettled regrets.<br/>
I will have proved to you my loyalty<br/>
and you to me your promise<br/>
to never leave me behind.<br/>
Now take me to Sablade, set us free.<br/>
We have earned our three days of rest.</p>
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<p>And when I die,<br/>
I will be able to look you in the eyes<br/>
with no burning guilt and no unsettled regrets.<br/>
I will have proved to you my loyalty<br/>
and you to me your promise<br/>
to never leave me behind.<br/>
Now take me to Sablade, set us free.<br/>
We have earned our three days of rest.</p>
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<title>Ac</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ac.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ac.svg" alt="Ac rune" title="Ac rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ac</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ac.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ac.svg" alt="Ac rune" title="Ac rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ac</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: oak</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: oak</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>target of hatred or fear</li>
<li>you must stand strong</li>
<li>stoic endurance</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>target of hatred or fear</li>
<li>you must stand strong</li>
<li>stoic endurance</li>
</ul>
<p>Ac can be useful for:</p>
<p>Ac can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>taking on the burdens / negative attention of others</li>
<li>persevering in a difficult task</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>taking on the burdens / negative attention of others</li>
<li>persevering in a difficult task</li>
</ul>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ac byþ on eorþan elda bearnum<br>flæsces fodor, fereþ gelome<br>ofer ganotes bæþ; garsecg fandaþ<br>hwæþer ac hæbbe æþele treowe.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ac byþ on eorþan elda bearnum<br>flæsces fodor, fereþ gelome<br>ofer ganotes bæþ; garsecg fandaþ<br>hwæþer ac hæbbe æþele treowe.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The oak fattens the flesh of pigs for the children of men.<br>Often it traverses the gannet's bath,<br>and the ocean proves whether the oak keeps faith<br>in honourable fashion.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The oak fattens the flesh of pigs for the children of men.<br>Often it traverses the gannet's bath,<br>and the ocean proves whether the oak keeps faith<br>in honourable fashion.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a known Norwegian rune poem for Ac.</p>
<p>There is not a known Norwegian rune poem for Ac.</p>
<p>The modern poem for this rune is listed in <a href="./25_ear.html">Ear</a>.</p>
<p>The modern poem for this rune is listed in <a href="./25_ear.html">Ear</a>.</p>
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<title>Ior</title>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ior.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ior.svg" alt="Ior rune" title="Ior rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ior</h1>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ior.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ior.svg" alt="Ior rune" title="Ior rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ior</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: world-serpent</p>
<p>Traditional meaning: world-serpent</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>need for self-boundaries</li>
<li>androgyny</li>
<li>see the other side of an issue</li>
<li>need for protection</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>need for self-boundaries</li>
<li>androgyny</li>
<li>see the other side of an issue</li>
<li>need for protection</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>poor boundaries</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>poor boundaries</li>
</ul>
<p>Ior can be useful for:</p>
<p>Ior can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>discovering hidden secrets/fears/anxieties</li>
<li>warding and protecting</li>
<li>learning how to navigate the emotional aspect of relationships</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>discovering hidden secrets/fears/anxieties</li>
<li>warding and protecting</li>
<li>learning how to navigate the emotional aspect of relationships</li>
</ul>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<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 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>
<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>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ior.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Sealing myself in skin of scales<br/>
means dropping the markings of sex.<br/>
Creature divine that lies truly between<br/>
but sans the blessings of femaleness.</p>
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<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>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>
<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>
<p>After all, there's a prize,<br/>
a woman I've been yearning to reunite<br/>
with my entire Inside-bound life,<br/>
waiting for me on the other side.</p>
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<p>After all, there's a prize,<br/>
a woman I've been yearning to reunite<br/>
with my entire Inside-bound life,<br/>
waiting for me on the other side.</p>
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