Comments on: Norse Mythology Part 2 http://garre.blog.friendster.com/2006/12/norse-mythology-part-2/ Capturing my life's moments. Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:49:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Denis http://garre.blog.friendster.com/2006/12/norse-mythology-part-2/#comment-36 Denis Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:30:19 +0000 http://garre.blog.friendster.com/2006/12/norse-mythology-part-2/#comment-36 Gonna add some points again, dude... you know after Odin has traded one of his eyes for a draught from the Well of Wisdom, he wins the knowledge of the Runes, too, by suffering. The Runes are magical inscriptions, immensely powerful for him who can inscribe them on anything -- wood, metal, stone. Odin learns them at the cost of mysterious pain. He says in the "Elder Edda" that he hangs: Nine whole nights on a wind-rocked tree, Wounded with a spear. I was offered to Odin, myself to myself, On the tree of which no man knows. To be continued... hehehe Gonna add some points again, dude… you know after Odin has traded one of his eyes for a draught from the Well of Wisdom, he wins the knowledge of the Runes, too, by suffering. The Runes are magical inscriptions, immensely powerful for him who can inscribe them on anything — wood, metal, stone. Odin learns them at the cost of mysterious pain. He says in the “Elder Edda” that he hangs:

Nine whole nights on a wind-rocked tree,
Wounded with a spear.
I was offered to Odin, myself to myself,
On the tree of which no man knows.

To be continued… hehehe

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