Courage, Fear and Risk

What is courage, and how is it different from recklessness? This trail runs through nine entries: two runes, four tarot cards and three passages from the Hávamál.

The entries cover loud courage and quiet courage, total commitment and careful assessment, and fear that is met and fear that is kept out of sight. They do not all agree on how much caution is right. Hávamál stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation, and some of its advice belongs to a world of battle. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system.