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The charm is named for its opening words, "wiþ ymbe", meaning "against (or towards) a swarm of bees". In the most often studied portion, towards the end of the text where the charm itself is located, the bees are referred to as sigewif, "victory-women".
3 days ago · The rune is called peorð in the Anglo-Saxon rune-poem and its Gothic name, according to the Salzburg script, is pertra, a word whose meaning cannot be explained from Germanic word material. Its meaning is more likely to relate in some way to the Greek and Latin word for rock or stone, petra , according to professor Sigurd Agrell.
5 days ago · As a master of the runes, Egil destroys the rune and inscribes a different runic symbol to counteract the ill effects of the original rune. Other episodes in the Norse sagas tell of victory runes carved onto weapons, wave runes carved into the sides of ships and oars, birth runes that offer assistance during childbirth, and life runes that can ...
1 day ago · The tales about the Norse god Odin tell how he gave one of his eyes in return for wisdom; he also won the mead of poetic inspiration. Luckily for Christian rune-masters, the Latin word os could be substituted without ruining the sense, to keep the outward form of the rune name without obviously referring to Woden."
2 days ago · Throughout most of Europe, the Bible was available only in Latin. And Latin was disappearing. By the 1300s, no one could read it except some of the clergy who had been to university. Roman Catholic priest John Wycliffe, having read the Bible in Latin, knew that what the Church taught was drastically different from what the Bible said.
2 days ago · He sacrificed himself to access the power and meaning of the runes. He hung himself from a tree and pierced his body with a spear. On the ninth day, he was reborn with the knowledge of the runes.
5 days ago · Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going to ...
