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thehoptimist. started the topic The rune Ansuz in the forum
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The Rune Ansuz stands for God. Some sources say it represents the gods in general, while others say it refers to Odin. In the Anglo-Saxon Futhark, it means mouth. What do you think about the meaning of Ansuz?
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Rob Holman replied to the topic Germania: An Argument for Continuity in Sortilege in the forum
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It is important to add I think, that the older rune poems like the OE Rune Poem, associate the runes with ideas… but do NOT teach you how to say it. For example:
Eolh-secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne
wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme,
blode breneð beorna gehwylcne
ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeþ.Elk-Sedge grows oftenest on the fen
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My own hair-brained thought looking at the other rune poems… is that this has nothing to do with “elk” and that “algiz” is wrong. It’s a variant of Ealh. Fight me. #SmokingJacket
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Thesis Statement:
The Old English rune eolh-secg (ᛉ) does not derive from a genitive form of eolh meaning “elk,” as earlier glossators and 19th-century lexicographers speculated, but rather preserves an older, sacral meaning linked to the Proto-Germanic root alh- (“sanctuary, shrine”). Drawing o…Read More
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Rob Holman replied to the topic Germania: An Argument for Continuity in Sortilege in the forum
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@thehoptimist asks:
Was there one symbol on each twig in the account of Tacitus, and second:
Were the Runes fist used for this purpose and then for writing, or vise versa?
On the first; we don’t know. What is said in Germania is literally our only account of the rite. We have no real way to know, but one seems logical, unless we think there…Read More
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There is a book called ‘saxon sorcery & magic’ by Alaric Albertsson that has a section on the runes along with how to pronounce them. Here goes-EH olch ending with a glottal stop, as in Loch.
Issue here is, just like in England today there are so many different dilects that the sound would have been slightly different in different regions.…Read More