Re: [tied] Old English Rune Poem

I just received JIES and read the piece.

I’m not sure what everyone else made of it but I was a bit disappointed.

The bulk of the article was comparison of three or four translations and a running commentary, some of which was very poorly informed in my opinion.

I believe Angel Millar is an esotericist/folklorist. I’m pretty sure I published some of his stuff in Wiðowinde about 10 years ago.

The article was frankly way below the standard I expect from that journal.

Regards

Steve

 

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This is from the article in the current JIES (V. 34, No. 3& 4, Fall Winter 2006) by Angel Miller "The Old English Rune Poem -- Semantics, Structure, and Symmetry" p. 419 ff.

She provides a diglot text, with her translation, using the only extant version of the poem, published in 1705 by George Hicks in Linguarum Veterum septentrionalium Thesaurus.

The work is essentially an acrostic, with each section starting with a letter of the runic alphabet. She suggests it is a mnemonic. The order of the letters does not agree with the usual Continental or even British fuþark, and adds some late letters.

The order: feoh, ur,