Eihwaz
Guardian of Flame
In 1915 Dickins called Eoh's original sound value unknown while translating its name as yew; the tree name does not settle the letter's pronunciation.
Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (1915), English poem, lines 35–37 and note, pp. 16–17.
An Elder Futhark rune corresponding to Old English eoh, the yew.
More context
The English eoh stanza describes a rough-barked tree held firmly in the earth by its roots, a guardian of flame and a joy on an estate. Dickins's 1915 note gives a possible reconstructed name but calls the letter's value in the original alphabet unknown. His reading therefore separates the tree identification from certainty about pronunciation. The stanza itself supplies rootedness and valued presence. It does not mention graveyards, longbows or a doctrine of transformation between death and rebirth.
Light
The English poem values the yew’s firm roots and its place on an estate, calling it a joy.
Shadow
Rough bark is the stanza’s first feature; its hard, rooted tree does not offer a promise of escape or renewal.