#runestones

[ur-folk]

Runestone drawing from Uppland, Sweden. Published in Svenska Folkets Underbara Öden (1916) by Carl Grimberg

[father-moss]

"Tjälve made the bridge after Bolla, his daughter. Ale and Olev had it carved (the stone) after Tjälve, their father, Inga after her husband. May God grant relief to their souls."

Note: bridge in ancient Norse is road, and not the same meaning as today.

[fattilinguistici]

Forse non sai che: pillola domenicale 📚

La parola inglese book è parente diretta della parola per faggio: beech. In che modo le due sono legate? Molto semplicemente, il faggio era l’albero sul cui legno venivano intagliate le tanto famose rune, reperto archeologico tipicamente germanico. Di conseguenza, la nozione di libro nasce in qualità “(insieme di iscrizione runiche incise su il) faggio”. Questo legame tra le due parole è ancora molto trasparente in tedesco, in cui la parola per libro è Buch e quella per faggio Buche.*

*sì, in tedesco tutti i sostantivi prendono la maiuscola per antichi motivi religiosi. Oggi queste ragioni sono opache, ma le maiuscole sono rimaste come relitto grafico di quell’uso.

[a-gnosis]

The Gisle Runestone, runic inscriptions in a rock from the 11th century CE commissioned by Gislög and Slode after a man named Tord. This one was not easy to find. A sign pointed out the direction, but there was no real path to follow. And the inscription was hard to see clearly because of all the moss on the rock.

[chimerical-creations]

This set is named the Pyramid Runes because of the shape.

For the record, tetrahedral bag = hella awkward to sew, but it was a design choice that was entirely self-inflicted so really I have no right to complain. It's partially machine-sewn, partially hand-sewn. Exterior is green velvet; interior is a sort of burgundy microsuede-ish stuff. The blue nylon cord threads through six grommets to close the bag, is adorned with a beaded charm thing and cinched with a cylindrical red glass bead. Each pair of grommets is adorned with a beaded drop/pendant/charm thingy.

The stones are green glass, roughly tetrahedron-shaped. Runes were engraved into all four sides and filled in with metallic silver-white paint and baked in the oven to fuse the paint to the glass.

The bag opens like some kind of tri-lobed Xenomorph egg and I kind of love that.

[nyxshadowhawk]

Whimsical Wizard Aesthetic: Black

[oldschoolfrp]

Merchants argue about the qualities of metals in the Guild Halls of Iltkazar, far to the south of Menzoberranzan in the Underdark, beneath the surface realm of Calimshan. "While Iltkazarn miners are quite capable of mining common ore such as copper, iron, gold, silver, and tin, they excel in discovering and working with rarer metals." (Michael Collins, Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark by Eric L Boyd, TSR, 1999)

This also might represent the Hall of Runestones temple described on the next page, but it was printed directly within the paragraph on mining and ores, and I know how much Tumblr likes ancient arguments about ores inscribed on tablets.

[birindale]

Visual development by Rian Sygh