Download Viking Runes And Their Meanings Pics. The given meanings are based on the medieval rune poems (which are conveniently available online here) exclusively. Viking runes which were written on the runestones were discovered to be memorials to departed men.
The runes were used to mark the ancestral burial grounds or to commemorate.
Legend says that the runes were the original source of fate and emerged from the well of urd beneath yggdrasil the 'tree of life' and made their way up the it was widely believed that the ability of the runes to convey deeper meanings facilitated communications between the worlds of the living and of. Articles on norse mythology, viking symbols and nordic runes. This limited set of glyphs meant that many of the runes were forced to represent several phonemes. Runes could be put anywhere: