One Rune Leads on to Another Rune: Anglo-Saxon LJ Icons

[lwood]

Well, Estara asked, and emberleo was making noises about éar a few days ago before I even got this idea and, well, here we are.

The Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc is not my forte. The shapes I chose were primarily influenced by the chart at the beginning of Taking Up the Runes, except for a few times when my font's glyph table completely flipped me off and had nothing like what Diana had, at which point I nipped over to cauldronfarm's web page, applied that to my font's glyph table, and found reasonable matches (I'm not happy with the matching on Calc).

Thirty-five entries here, drink up me hearties yo ho: as someone had asked about eiwaz orientation, and I found two possible diphthongs with which to end peorð (unless it's peorþ), so both of those variants are posted for both of those runes. Aettir are assigned following Kaldera's emendation of a fourth aett for the ones not covered in the Elder, save for Gar, which is all alone and ever more shall be so.

Now, if anyone who appeals more to the A-S futhorc (which would be anyone) than would like to apply Waggoner's Second Theorem of Heathenry ("You're Doing That Wrong"), please do, and I'll see what I can do to correct with what I've got without resorting to Waggoner's First Theorem ("You're not the boss of me!").

Same rules as before: Odin doesn't hoard 'em, neither do I, but I do like me props (only fair, he does too): a comment, a shout-out in the description you use when you adopt it as an LJ icon, both is best.




Share and Enjoy!

-- Lorrie

Comments

[abhasana.livejournal.com]

I love me some Futhorc. :) I just recieved some very special oak from someone I know in Wisconsin; the wood was windfall gathered from a category 1 hurricane(!) and lightning storm, and is partly in payment for some work I did for local mountain spirits (not to mention the plants loving on me). Nal helped, too. I have to let the wood sit in the box for a while until they adjust to the dry climate here. I'm going to have a lovely rune set when I'm all done.

I'm glad you've got that second version of Eoh/Eiwaz; when I saw the first one I was did a bit of a double take and figured I was just overly tired. I've seen both Calc and Cweorth written a couple different ways which has led me to ask others where they got their versions (Thorrson was always the reply, to which I could only yell "but I'm looking at Thorrson, too! Don't look at me like I'm crazy!"). The Cweorth you've got is my favored form, and I like the Calc that I use in my icon; it's got personal reason for being that way.

(Told the mama. I'll have the requested email to you soon.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you've got that second version of Eoh/Eiwaz; when I saw the first one I was did a bit of a double take and figured I was just overly tired. I've seen both Calc and Cweorth written a couple different ways which has led me to ask others where they got their versions (Thorrson was always the reply, to which I could only yell "but I'm looking at Thorrson, too! Don't look at me like I'm crazy!").

I expect we're looking at the results from several different stones--it's not like they called each other up or had meetings about what shapes to use! ;)

The Cweorth you've got is my favored form, and I like the Calc that I use in my icon; it's got personal reason for being that way.

Well, seeing as I know roughly bupkes about the A-S, I'm gratified to find that things match and that you find them useful. Thanks for letting me know!

-- Lorrie

[abhasana.livejournal.com]

I expect we're looking at the results from several different stones--it's not like they called each other up or had meetings about what shapes to use! ;)

Precisely. Which is why I got so miffed when folks tried to give me a trip about which was more correct. Fuck that.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Well the more/less correct issue is significant when you're trying to understand wtf someone else was trying to say.

However, as I think I pointed out--there's a lot less consensus on the Younger and Anglo-Saxon shapes than the Elder ones, for modern heathen historical reasons.

-- Lorrie

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Taking the lot and crediting. You are love. :D

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hunh. Do I get a colorbar for that? 8-)

-- Lorrie