Home, Kin and Belonging

What makes a place, and a people, your own? This trail follows that question through twelve entries from four collections: two runes, four tarot cards, five passages from the Hávamál and one place from the Yggdrasil map.

The entries do not agree on where belonging comes from. The Hávamál speaks of a small house held by your own means, Othala and the Ten of Pentacles of what is handed down, the household cards of care kept up day by day, and the poem again of loyalties that have edges. The rune and card entries are this site’s own readings. Hávamál stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation. The Eddic place comes from the Poetic Edda and Snorri as given on its page. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system.