Anglo-Saxon Aloud

A daily reading of the entire Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records,which includes all poems written in Old English. By Michael D. C. Drout, Prentice Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

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The Rune Poem [all]

Posted by mdrout on 13th December 2007

(I still may try to sing this to the tune of “A, You’re Adorable,” because it’s a poem of a least a distantly related type). Each letter of the runic alphabet is given a sentence that describes what the rune means (each rune has a name like “wyn” [joy] as well as a phonetic value).

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