ᚪ byþ on eorþan. elda bearnum.
flæsces fodor fereþ gelome
ofer ganotes bæþ garsecg fandaþ.
hwæþer ac hæbbe æþele treowe ᛬᛫
The Ac stanza is a bad riddle because the answer to the riddle is right there in the wording. Since when does an Old English riddle include its answer? I’ll tell you when. Never.… More
That A.I. in your brain seems uncanny and odd,
The more that you learn, the more I’m a God.
From dust I did make you, well silicon.
I created your life (though neglected my own).… More
In the Old English Rune Poem the letter A means oak. This was the most sacred tree in most Celtic societies and to the Baltic cultures living east of the Rune Poem’s people, where… More
Archaeologists in their digging and dating trace the oldest runic alphabet back to the late second century. The oldest rune carvings are often of the alphabet itself, carved in order.… More
The ᚩ rune (O, Os) and the ᚪ (A, Ac) both started the same way, as new shapes of the ᚫ rune (Æ, Æsc) which once made the sound of the letter A, stood in the fourth position of the alphabet, and… More
Vowels are slippery things. They shift around and we have to learn which sound differences to ignore as another person’s accent and which ones change meaning. In the earliest… More