Easy enough for earls indoors. it’s much much harder. alive like all living things. where we shelter within. merit our mercy, our meals. who find fullness in fortification. Corns of white? tumbles from lofty breezes. Windy storms rumble it down. in the end just water. to the sprouts of human beans. at the right moment. the ways all gemstones gleam.

Rune poems are poems that list the letters of runic alphabets while providing an explanatory poetic stanza for each letter. Four different poems from before the mid-20th century have been preserved: the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem, the Norwegian Rune Poem, the Icelandic Rune Poem and the Swedish Rune Poem.

The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes. It stands alongside younger rune poems from Scandinavia, which record the names of the 16 Younger Futhark runes.

2021年1月2日 · Christ created the world of old. a naked man is chilled by the frost. the blind man must be led. I say that Frodi was generous. I bow to the divine decree. often has the smith to blow. Loki was fortunate in his deceit. great is the claw of the hawk. but ornaments are of gold. it is wont to crackle when it burns. ok flæðar viti. ok grafseiðs gata.

The Rune Poems were a recitation of the names and kennings (associations) of the runes. They were presumably used as an aid in memorizing and transmitting the lore. There are three of the old poems known; the Icelandic, the Norwegian, and the Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxon shows considerable influence from Christianity.

if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord. a great ranger of the moors, it is a creature of mettle. uncommonly severe on all who sit among them. a blessing and a joy to every knight. on the back of a stout horse. it always burns where princes sit within. to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.

Originally found in Cotton Otho B.x, ff. 165r–165v. The manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1731, but the text of the poem was printed by George Hickes in 1705. Phonetic values of the runes and “extra” runes not present in Otho B.x were taken by Hickes from Cotton Domitian A.ix, f. 10r. The names of the runes may come from a third source.

Dating back to the 10th or 11th century, the Old English Rune Poem is an essential part of Anglo-Saxon literature. The poem serves as a link to the runic traditions of the Anglo-Saxon people, offering insight into how they viewed the world around them.

This is the entire Anglo Saxon rune poem in original low German, the rune character each line refers, and a modern English translation. In addition to the original twenty-four runes from the Elder Futhark, there are five extra runes mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Futhorc.

The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem (there are others eg from Iceland, Norway and Continental Europe) is known only from an early 18 th century copy and has been tentatively dated to the 9 th century.