In this poem, the word "giant" is literally the name of Loki's father, Fárbauti. Yr, the yew tree, is what bows are made of, but is also an evergreen that's planted on graves - think, maybe, of action at a distance, or sending something from here to elsewhere.īent bow and brittle iron and giant of the arrow.īear in mind here that "giant" has a slightly different connotation, of a kind of brutal nature spirit who doesn't necessarily like human beings. It's a hard, tough, straight tree that is not easily felled. Smug and wet.Īesc is generally linked to the World-Tree (again), as well as to brotherhood or partnership. So that's a totally reversed meaning there. It has a fair abode encompassed by water, where it lives in happiness. *Iar is a river fish and yet it always feeds on land though a destroyed field would become really fertile and moist for the next growing season).īUT but but. if these are Anglo-Saxon and not Norse runes, then it could also be ior, a version of jera, the year, but with another name that means "eel": Haegl is a later, Anglo-Saxon version of hagall, hagalaz, or "hail" - a rune of destruction or setbacks, but ones that leave room to grow (in versions of the rune poem, "hail" is described as a "seed" or "grain" - kind of grim humor, if you're in a culture where a hail storm can lead to starvation through crop destruction. So there's also a sense in which that tatt would be like a big ol' yin on the chest without the balancing yang - one of three icy runes.ĭown the middle under Amalgamation (I don't know alchemy, but that sounds right to me!) are three more Anglo-Saxon runes. aesc#Anglo-Saxon_Futhorc), the ash tree yr, the yew tree and probably haegl. Our world exists thanks to an interplay between fire and ice - between Muspelheim and Niflheim, the realms of fire and ice. the thing that makes you want things.Īlso important: In Norse cosmology, there are two fundamental forces from which everything else springs - a kind of Northern European yin and yang. It's a symbol of want, of desire, of an aftermath of destruction, though can also be read as a motivating force. challenging runes (hail, need and ice all come one after the other). The anatomical right pec is naudiz or nyd, or "need," one of three. The rune on the anatomical left shoulder is also a gar, only with harder angles, I think. It is used esoterically as a symbol for Odin's sacrifice for wisdom, hanging on a tree to gain knowledge of the runes. in gar's case, ALL the other runes) and is a representation of Odin's spear (which, personally, I think is a kenning for Yggsdrasil, the world tree, but don't have any textual proof for that). It's said to be a bindrune (a combination of other runes, sometimes used as a kind of signature, but also with some metaphysical properties combined from other runes. Over his (anatomical) left pectoral is gar, a rune known only from the Northumbrian set (meaning: the youngest, longest runic alphabet only found on stuff from Northumbria, a place where Vikings settled in Britain).
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