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Stave:<br />

Galdr-sound: llllllllll<br />

Letter: L<br />

(Water) is to people<br />

seemingly unending<br />

if they should venture out<br />

on an unsteady ship<br />

and the sea-waves<br />

frighten them very much<br />

and the brine-stallion<br />

does not heed its bridle.<br />

Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem<br />

(Water) is that which falls from the mountain;<br />

as a force;<br />

but gold objects are costly things.<br />

Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme<br />

(Wetness) is churning water,<br />

and a wide kettle<br />

and the land of fish.<br />

Old Icelandic Rune Poem<br />

water the bright<br />

Abcedarium Nordmannicum<br />

I know a fifteenth, which Thiodhroerir the dwarf<br />

sang before Delling’s door.<br />

He sang might to the Aesir, power to the elves,<br />

and understanding to Odin.<br />

Havamal 160<br />

LAGUZ<br />

The rune laguz is the rune of primal water, the rivers flowing from Hvergelmir which hold both yeast and<br />

venom. In the Teutonk cosmos, it is the water flowing up through the well itself, as distinct from the well<br />

(perthro) or the path and action of the water (uruz). Laguz is essentially an undifferentiated force which<br />

uruz cleanses, shapes, and guides.<br />

You can see this dual nature in the great ambivalence with which the Germanic peoples viewed<br />

the waters of their world. Water is the bright waters of life and the dark waters of death. The ocean was a<br />

great source of the Norse people’s prosperity and their easiest road to travel (Njord), but it was also the<br />

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