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[louiselux]

Day 158 - runes

Ahem.

I impulse bought them from the British Museum shop, along with King Harald's Saga by Snori Sturluson. It's gripping and fast paced and so far I have got to part 34, where Harald and King Svein of Denmark are about to fight it out over who deserves Denmark more. In this part, I like that there is a court poet known as Thorleik the Handsome. He must've been very very handsome to be known for it.

I also bought Chronicles of the Vikings by RI Page, which I mostly picked because it has a chapter entitled 'the unheroic life' that comes straight after a chapter called 'the heroic life'.

Anyway! I have been practising with the runes (put hand in bag, extract rune, consult little book, feel baffled). Apparently, long distance rune-reading is quite acceptable. Please do feel free to ask them anything you like!! (Answers may not make sense, may contain nuts)

Comments

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh Mighty Runes, was it a mistake to drink a whole litre of PJ's grape & mango smoothie for tea?

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

You have drawn Laguz: flow, water, that which conducts. However, it is reversed (upside down).

This is a warning against overreach and excessive striving. Flow reversed is a counsel against trying to exceed your own strength, or to operate beyond the power you have funded to date in your life.

It often indicates a failure to draw on the wisdom of instinct!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I hope the flow *isn't* reversed!

Ah well. It can't be worse than the time I had a bag of prunes for breakfast.