Sowelu
- Skoll:
Sköll (Old Norse "Treachery" or "Mockery" is a wolf that chases the Sun (personified as a goddess, Sól). With his counterpart Hati ("He Who Hates", or "Enemy") who chases the Moon (personified, as Máni). It is possible that Sköll is another name for the giant wolf Fenrir, and there could be a nature-mythological interpretation in the case of Sköll and Hati. Such an interpretation suggests the wolves may be intended to describe the phenomenon of parhelions or sundogs, as these are called 'sun-wolf/warg' in Scandinavian languages (solulv/solvarg). They chase until the time of Ragnarök, when they will swallow these heavenly bodies
TrampGuy on 2013-06-25
Icey on 2022-05-24Sowelo
- 1. "Tveimar" is possibly a modernized spelling of "tveimr", so my best guess is that the writer meant "two Sowelo [runes]".
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darkdigitalis
Wed, 14/10/2015 - 03:38
hiya! cheers for the translation. curious, though. I wonder if instead of carving/painting/chanting two runes, would it perhaps be twice.. as in two solidify intent into the rune itself? I don't know,. I don't see a point in making two of the same rune..
Jay Elkheart
Mon, 01/02/2016 - 20:08
It makes perfect sense to be making the rune twice, when you lay two sowelo runes perpendicular on each other they form a sun wheel.
darkdigitalis
Tue, 08/03/2016 - 01:29
they do? last I checked, two sowelu runes next to each other read as two s-shaped bolts of lightning.
Dain 
Most of this is taken from Old Icelandic poetry and misspelled, but the "Tveimar ek..." part is unclear. It's Norse, although I'm not certain whether the writer meant it to be Old Norse or Proto-Norse. The verb form "fahido" is taken from the Rö runic inscription and is Proto-Norse; the other verbs are either past participles from Old Norse (in which case the first line reads "I written two Sowelo") or infinitives in Proto-Norse (which would mean that it reads "I to write two Sowelo").