Old Norse Quotes

“Most of the time, he’s controlling, with the temperament of a troll. Come to think of it, he has the manners of one too. And I do not like that he tried to kill me. Twice.”
― Demi Winters, The Road of Bones

“Whether used for the self or in service to others, the runes
continually
reflect the collective in the individual, the unknown in
the known, and the personal embodiment of the unknowable in All
Things—the aspect of mystery in Nature that we also embody.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“The Old Norse cosmology gives us the awareness that while lightness may bring enlightenment, it is the darkness that initiates
change.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“The idea that our cosmology continues to change as we evolve in our spiritual studies and that we play a role in intentionally shaping it lies at the heart of the runes; thus, they are our deepest instruction for creating the self.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“What makes control actually powerful is knowing what to do with it.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“Joy lasts in memory, it thrives in sharing.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“The Old English word is wyrd, which most glossaries and dictionaries translate as ‘fate’. Tolkien knew that the etymologies of the two words were quite different, ‘fate’ coming from the Latin fari, ‘to speak’, so ‘that which has been spoken’, sc. by the gods. The Old English word derives from weorÞan, ‘to become’: it means ‘what has become, what’s over’, so among other things, ‘history’ – a historian is a wyrdwritere, a writer-down of wyrd.”
― Tom Shippey, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century