Speech, Silence and Secrets

When should you speak, and when keep quiet? This trail follows that question through nine entries: one rune, three tarot cards and five passages from the Hávamál.

The Hávamál praises silence in many stanzas and then has its speaker succeed by talking. The tarot cards ask about timing, delivery and consent more than about quantity. The entries do not give one rule. 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.