ᚱRunes🔒 Members

Cast runes five ways (including the Norns and Tacitus' lots) with your question — or shake a leather bag of all 24 and reach in for each stone yourself, laying it face down and turning it over by hand, with the click of stone or wood if you like; carve any rune yourself, tracing each stroke until it is cut and stained red;, on carved pebbles or wooden staves that tumble onto a white cloth; see which runes keep returning in your casts, make bindrunes, write a name along a runestone's serpent, and browse all 24 by aett with their lore and galdr — read aloud, syllable by syllable, if you like. Show the 24 as the Anglo-Saxon futhorc or the sixteen-rune Younger Futhark, with the old names, and see what is ancient and what is modern. Carve a rune and the Latin letter for its sound side by side on a wooden board, and see why runes have no level strokes. Read six real inscriptions for yourself, rune by rune with the row as your key — the Vimose comb, the Øvre Stabu spearhead, the Kylver stone's whole futhark, the golden horn of Gallehus, the Noleby stone's runes “of divine origin” and King Gorm's stone at Jelling — and turn the runic calendar to any year, with its golden-number rune for the new moons and its Sunday rune, the month laid out on a stave. Spell a word yourself on a keyboard of runes, in the Elder Futhark or the sixteen of the Younger, and have it checked by sound, rune by rune; write a word in the branch runes of the Viking-age cipher and decode one; and learn the row by doing — which rune, by name, meaning, sound or its form in a later row, and the futhark laid in order against the clock.