Anonymous

“ Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity;
it furnishes help and subsistence
to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.
Wynn
Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, sorrow nor anxiety,
and has prosperity and happiness and a good enough house. ”

“ Mann
The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen;
yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow,
since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.
Lagu
The ocean seems interminable to men,
if they venture on the rolling bark
and the waves of the sea terrify them
and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle. ”

“ Yew is the greenest of trees in winter;
it is wont to crackle when it burns.
The Icelandic Rune Poem ᚠ Fé er frænda róg ok flæðar viti ok grafseiðs gata aurum fylkir. ᚢ Úr er skýja grátr ok skára þverrir ok hirðis hatr. umbre vísi ᚦ Þurs er kvenna kvöl ok kletta búi ok varðrúnar verr. Saturnus þengill. ᚬ Óss er algingautr ok ásgarðs jöfurr, ok valhallar vísi. Jupiter oddviti. ᚱ Reið er sitjandi sæla ok snúðig ferð ok jórs erfiði. iter ræsir. ᚴ Kaun er barna böl ok bardaga [för] ok holdfúa hús. ”

“ The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem ᚠ Feoh byþ frofur fira gehwylcum; sceal ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan gif he wile for drihtne domes hleotan. ᚢ Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned, felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht. ᚦ Ðorn byþ ðearle scearp; ðegna gehwylcum anfeng ys yfyl, ungemetum reþe manna gehwelcum, ðe him mid resteð. ᚩ Os byþ ordfruma ælere spræce, wisdomes wraþu ond witena frofur and eorla gehwam eadnys ond tohiht. ᚱ Rad byþ on recyde rinca gehwylcum sefte ond swiþhwæt, ðamðe sitteþ on ufan meare mægenheardum ofer milpaþas. ”