Name: Rune Reading: 3 Questions - Australian Reader
Price: 30.00 AUD
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Description

This is a an Elder Futhark Rune reading.

This is a 3 question Reading where you will receive a paragraph per response. It will be sent to your email in PDF format, within 48 hours.

You will be sent a picture of the runes which were drawn. 9 Runes will be drawn in total.

What I need from you:

– Your full name

– Your DOB

– Your 3 questions. Try to make them as specific as possible to get the most out of your reading.

The Mythology of Viking Runes:

There is a deep and interesting mythology behind Viking runes. The story goes that the god Odin impaled his own heart with his spear and hung on the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nine nights in order to understand the meanings of the runes. The runes were symbols that came from the Well of Urd, or Urðarbrunnr. This well was one of three different wells that lay beneath Yggdrasil. According to Norse legend, from this well sprung three Norns, mythical creatures who decided people’s fate. For this reason, the Well of Urd is known as the ‘source of fate’. The Norns used the runes to carry that fate up through the trunk and branches of Yggdrasil and out to the nine worlds among its boughs.

During the first centuries AD, the Romans influenced most of Europe. Runes developed in areas populated by Germanic tribes, probably inspired by the Latin alphabet of the Romans. The earliest runic inscriptions, dating from ca 150 AD, are particularly common in what is now Denmark, Northern Germany and Southern Sweden.

The oldest runes are often found on items such as coins, suit buckles, weapons and implements, and are often the names of the owner of the item or the name of the person who made it.

So, we see from this story how the Vikings thought of runes not merely as letters but as having potent virtues within themselves of a metaphysical or even magical nature. The Norse and other Germanic peoples wrote with runes since at least the first century. However, they did not use this writing the way we do now, or even the way Mediterranean and other neighboring cultures did then. Instead, runes were originally for inscriptions of great importance. They could be carved into runestones to commemorate ancestors and mark the graves of heroes. Because they had inherent meaning, they could be used as a means of communication between the natural and supernatural, and could thus be used in spells for protection or success.