Quarrels, Feuds and Making Peace

When is a quarrel worth having, when should you walk away, and how is one settled? This trail follows those questions through twelve entries: one rune, four tarot cards, five passages from the Hávamál and two places from the Eddic world.

The entries pull in different directions. The poem advises against striving with a worse man and wasting words on a fool, while one tarot card says some conflicts are healthier in the open; others look at the cost of winning, at fairness, and at halls where strife is settled or rare. Hávamál stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation. The Eddic places come from the Poetic Edda and Snorri as given on each page. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system.