Meditations on MAN: Veðrfölnir’s vision
This installment of my meditations on the Armanen Runes was completed on 4 April 2021. It focuses on the all-important rune MAN. The wind-witherer sits between the eyes of the eagle who is perched so gracefully in the highest branches of Yggdrasil. ********* As I meditate on the Armanen rune MAN, I begin by internalizing verse 160 of the Hávamál . A fifteenth I know, That which Volkrast the Gnome sang by the Gates of Day: To Strength for the Aesir, and to Force for the Albes (elves) And to clear my own senses. [1] Karl Hans Welz assists greatly in relating this obscure verse to several concepts in Norse mythology. He writes, “MAN is the crown and branches of the world tree, Yggdrasil, while YR signifies the roots of the world tree.”[2] While Yggdrasil is primarily thought of as the structure of the universe or multi-verse, comprised of the Nine Worlds, it may also represent, in microcosm, the human body / soul-complex. In MAN, it is that internal or spiritual structure of Yggdra