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RAIDHO
Galdr-sound: rrrrrrrrr (a rolled r, as in the Scottish brogue or like the sound of a motor starting)
Letter: R
(Riding) t is in the hall
of every warrior
easy, but very hard
for the one who sits up
on a powerful horse
over miles of road.
— Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
(Riding) it is said, is the worst for horses
Reginn forged the best sword.
— Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme
(Riding) is a blessed sitting
and a swift journey
and the toil of the horse.
— Old Icelandic Rune Poem
I know a fifth.
If a foe shoots a shaft
into the host, it cannot fly so fast
that I can not stop it,
if I catch sight of it.
— Havamal 150
The name of this rune has been interpreted variously as wagon,chariot,” and “riding.” It is closely tied to
the ancient Indo-European images of a horse-drawn wagon or chariot carrying the sun, and also to the
practice of burying the dead with horses, wagons, and/or ships. As a solar rune, raidho writes forth the
cycle of the day, the solarhiringar (ring of the sun). This ring was divided into an eight-spoked wheel
matching the eight points of the compass and determined equally by the passage of the sun (midday,
midnight, etc.) and by the daily rhythm of social life (hours of rising and going to bed, mealtimes,
etc.).[1] When solar measurements rule social rhythms, time is always seen as a relative phenomenon.
The legal measurement of time written forth as the hour in which the sun stands just over the shaft of an
upward-pointing spear will point out a different “objective” time at different places and seasons, but it
will always be the same in relationship to the actual length of the hours of daylight. Raidho is not a rune
of absolute measurement but of proportionate and appropriate relationships.
Above all, raidho is a rune of ordered movement-movement in space, movement in time, and the
relationship between the two.
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