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Read about Runes
About this reading: Runes are the writing system used by ancient Norse and Germanic peoples, and the set most commonly used for divination is the 24-character Elder Futhark. Originally used for record-keeping and as symbols in ritual and magic, runes carved onto wood or stone and drawn from a bag have long been used for fortune-telling too. Each rune carries its own distinct meaning, and a reading is built from the combination drawn. On this site, a rune that lands upside down is read as reversed (merkstave) — except for the nine runes that look the same either way up (Gebo, Hagalaz, Nauthiz, Isa, Jera, Eihwaz, Sowilo, Ingwaz and Dagaz), which have no reversed reading.
The word "rune" itself is thought to come from an Old Norse root meaning "secret" or "whisper," and there are signs it was treated as more than plain writing — a symbol entrusted with things not meant to be spoken outright. In Norse myth, the chief god Odin is said to have hung himself from the World Tree and endured nine days and nights of suffering to win the wisdom of the runes, so from the start they've carried the idea of knowledge bought at a price. With that origin in mind, this page treats a rune reading less as a quick answer handed over and more as a quiet reckoning with whichever symbol you draw.
Lore column: The Miscarved Runes That Made a Girl Ill
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Runes were thought to be letters that could do harm if written wrongly. The Icelandic Egil's Saga, set down around the thirteenth century, describes how the warrior-poet Egil visits Helga, a girl who has long been ill. The cause turns out to be runes a neighboring farmer's son carved on a piece of whalebone for her and hid in her bed. Egil scrapes away the letters, burns the bone, and recites a verse: no one should carve runes who cannot read them. Ten letters had been cut wrongly, he says, and that is what has tormented her. When he carves the correct runes and places them under her bedding, Helga recovers as if waking from sleep.
Runes also served as curses guarding graves and monuments. The Björketorp runestone in southern Sweden, dating to around the sixth or seventh century, bears an inscription warning that whoever breaks the monument will be ceaselessly plagued by malevolent power and meet an insidious death, and it ends with a "prophecy of destruction."
As we see it here, runes were feared because in an age when very few could handle writing, carved words were believed to move reality directly. They were records, prayers and curses all at once. This is speculation, but what Egil's story really meant to convey was perhaps less the terror of curses than the danger of trying to move another person's heart with half-knowledge. A young man's letters, meant only to carry his feelings, ended up hurting the one he wanted to reach. When drawing a rune stone, too, it asks us not to rush the answer but to take in the weight of a single carved letter.
Runes
Draw from the Elder Futhark, the Norse runic alphabet carved into stone.
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