Milfoil
This is very interesting. What you say einhverfr, corrolates very closely to ancient Huna use of language. Often there are several, even dozens of different meanings for words so that a single phrase can carry many meanings, magical, spiritual, metaphorical, sexual, literal etc and all together, they come to a whole which is only truly understood by someone from that culture, speaking that language and knowing of the deeper meanings.
The one thing that put me off really understanding and being able to use the Elder Futhark is the dawning realisation that without learning the language, culture, poetry etc, I was always going to be one step behind or outside the full knowledge contained in this system.
I imagine that all magical alphabets around the world were initially based upon primeval sounds (Ohm for example in the East) and went on from there. evolving into words and phrases. Understanding all that history and its cultural associations are necessary to really start to comprehend what the Fulthark can mean.
The one thing that put me off really understanding and being able to use the Elder Futhark is the dawning realisation that without learning the language, culture, poetry etc, I was always going to be one step behind or outside the full knowledge contained in this system.
I imagine that all magical alphabets around the world were initially based upon primeval sounds (Ohm for example in the East) and went on from there. evolving into words and phrases. Understanding all that history and its cultural associations are necessary to really start to comprehend what the Fulthark can mean.