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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

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

You has drawn othilia: separation, retreat, inheritance.

"This is a time of separating paths. Old skins must be shed, outmoded relationships discarded. A rune of radical severance. A peeling away is called for.

The appropriate action here is submission, and quite possibly, retreat. Real property is associated with othilia, the rune of acquisition and benefits. However, these may be derived from something you give up. This can be particularly demanding when what you are called upon to abandon some aspect of your behaviour or your cultural inheritance.

Hmmmmm, does that help?

Whether it is your attachment to your position in society, to the work you do, or even to your beliefs about your own natures, the separation called for will free you to become more truly who you are.

[emungere.livejournal.com]

Oooh, interesting. That does help, actually! Helps as a confirmation that it's time to stop skulking around the edges of the real world and be a real adult, anyway. Which is sort of what I suspected. The runez do know all!!11!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

*skulks*