Elder Futhark · Freyr's Aett
Wunjo
Rune 8 - ᚹ
Upright
A well-earned joy and sense of harmony are settling in.
Wunjo. A well-earned joy and sense of harmony are settling in. Joy, and the last of Freyr's Aett. Not pleasure but harmony -- kin at ease with each other, work that fits the worker, the reward at the end of the building. It is eighth of Freyr's Aett, the first eight - the aett of building a life: increase, partnership and the world taking shape. Upright, the stave stands in its clear aspect and can be worked with directly. Its keyword range runs through joy, harmony, fellowship, and wellbeing earned.
Merkstave
Joy is being delayed by friction or a sense of estrangement.
Wunjo merkstave. Joy is being delayed by friction or a sense of estrangement. Joy, and the last of Freyr's Aett. It is eighth of Freyr's Aett, the first eight - the aett of building a life: increase, partnership and the world taking shape. Fallen merkstave, the timing is wrong rather than the substance. Right thing, wrong hour - early, late, or frozen short of where it was going. In merkstave, read these as strain, blockage, or the caution the rune is raising: sorrow, estrangement, delayed happiness, and strife.
About the Elder Futhark
The oldest runic alphabet, used across Germanic Europe from roughly 150 to 800 CE.
No rune names or meanings are directly recorded for the Elder Futhark. The meanings used here are reconstructed from three later medieval sources - the Old English, Norwegian and Icelandic Rune Poems - which give a verse for each rune. 'Merkstave' (a reversed or ill-dignified rune) is a modern reading convention; runes with no natural upside-down form are read only for merkstave when the surrounding runes are adverse.
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