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@thehoptimist I made a forum thread to hold more data, without it scrolling away. 🙂
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Correct. It has errors. Sceaf in the English retelling was made King of old Anglia.
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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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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 -
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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladium_mariscus
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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That makes sense — so in the English line we get Sceaf as the foundling, Scyld as the warrior-king who brings order, and in some genealogies Beowa as Scyld’s son, whose name points back to barley and fertility. In the Norse tradition, the miraculous origin drops out and Skjöld becomes Odin’s son, while among the Lombards the roles merge in Agelmu…Read More