Endings, Mourning and What Lasts

This trail follows endings: what breaks, what is lost, and what the old sources say outlasts a life. It has nine entries: two runes, three tarot cards and four passages from the Hávamál.

It deals with loss, so go slowly, and skip any step you want to. The entries do not offer comfort on a schedule. Some say the hard thing is allowed to be hard; one says a good name outlasts death; one lists small goods to count on a bad day. Hávamál stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system. Nothing here is counselling.