Norse & Germanic · Dreams & the Unconscious
Symbol · The Runes
Laguz
The Sea Without End
Water as both use and terror: an endless sea, a hull that will not steady. 'Intuition' is a modern graft.
What it meansThe sea seems interminable to men who venture on the rolling vessel, the waves terrify them, and the deep's courser will not heed its bridle. The poem takes the water's side. This is the ocean as it is experienced by someone who has no power over it at all.
Being · 13th century
Trolls of the Wilderness
Medieval to Modern · Scandinavian Folk Tradition
Ancient beings of isolated Scandinavian boulders, deep pine forests, and mountain caves.
Who they wereTrolls symbolize the stubborn, primordial inertia of the unconscious mind and the dense instinctual forces of the wild psyche that petrify when illuminated by the light of conscious awareness.
The FindingUnexamined primal habits resist the light of consciousness until confronted and illuminated directly.