Rune Sampler

"Dawne Peterson" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

It's lovely Dawne. Striking colours, same ones in the Mackenzie tartan lol

I think I`d want to be very sure what the runes meant before hanging them up in MY house!

Pat P

"Pat P" > .

What's on the sampler is a futhark (no giggling, Mrs. P) which is like writing the alphabet. Dawne

Sorry (beating my breast in contrition!) I DID giggle!!!

Pat P

Is that in any way related to a fubar?

Pat > "Pat P" > .

No, pat!

You have to be a Cootie to understand that!! FUBAR Aux #5!!

Gillian

Pat > Is that in any way related to a fubar?

Or maybe it's closer to SNAFU ??

I was just thinking that I learn more obscure things, about more interesting subjects, on this newsgroup than I ever knew I wanted to know. Runes I vaguely knew of, but Futhark is absolutely new to me.

Such a great place to keep one's mind from atrophying.

Lucille

Dawne there are many book[let]s with old and antique letter forms , why not read one of those and draw your own version of a sampler. When i made my `samplerloke ` work i STUDIED about letter forming for

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" wrote ..

Lots of books on letter forms around here, since I do calligraphy. Actually i have several books and runes--and they are very very easy to draw, and would be easy to chart. This sampler also has a very nice version of Ygdrasil the World Tree, and Odin's two ravens on top; I was impressed with the effort to integrate some important themes of Norse myth in such an attractive design. Dawne

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

wasn't involved)

(VBG) Doesn't this stand as one of the general rules of life???? Dawne

I suspect so! I have always loved the Chinese (?) curse - may you live in interesting times

Cheryl

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

There is considerable attention paid to works that sound alike-- the word for "bat" (the little flying creature, not the baseball implement) sounds like the word for luck, so a design of bats is lucky. Some of the characters are made up of several other symbols, so can have a depth of meaning beyond their simple one. Dawne

I know about the 4/death sound alike, might be a look alike too. Using/serving four of anything is greatly frowned upon.

Cheryl

"Futhark" is another way of saying the Runic Alphabet. Similar to the way the word alphabet is made up of alpha, bet... Futhark stands for Fehu, uruz, thuriaz,anzuz, raido, kenaz,... the first few letters of the Runic alphabet.

And there are a few good runic samplers out there- Enchanted Needle has a simple one whearas Dracolair has a more complicated one...

VHF

I rather Cherish their new year`s wish "may you live in boring times !!!" mirjam

All this duscussion is one of the reasons many of my coleagues and me are very cautious before we use a symbol of another culture. You miight be surprised how many "Dogmas" and rules are really a mistaken translation or wrong conception of a text taken from another place. mirjam