This week's rune is Isa. Meaning Ice. The poems are:
The Old Norse Rune Poem
Isa
Ice we call the broad bridge;
the blind man must be led.
The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
Is
Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery;
it glistens as clear as glass and most like to gems;
it is a floor wrought by the frost, fair to look upon.
The Icelandic Rune Poem
Ice
Bark of rivers
and roof of the wave
and destruction of the doomed.
We see in the poems a multi-faceted depiction of Ice. We see it's functionality and utility in the bridge, it's beauty in the gems it resembles, and then it's destruction in the waves. One thing that is interesting to note is that the first two poems focus on positive aspects with one negative caveat, and then in the final icelandic poem, that formula is reversed.
This is another one of those raw elemental force runes.
Gems are beautiful because they don't move, they're stationary, and always there for us to look at. For what it's worth.
1 comment:
I was totally waiting for ages to see if the image would load some more when i realised that it was just the straight line.
Doh!
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