hey girl, put down that runebook & coffee so we can NorsePlay together.
The pictured runebook's titled The Codex Regius: A Reconstruction in Medieval Futhark Runic Script from Ancient Artifacts and marketed as " this hardbound Codex Regius is specifically designed to be close to what you might find if you were to be directly working with the original sources. " While a book of runes is what one might imagine finding this major source of Norse Lore's Poetic Edda in, this product's manifestation is total NorsePlay. The understandable misunderstanding here's pretty funny as the vellum manuscript source copy's actually written in medieval Old Icelandic using Latin letters in Carolingian-insular script circa ~1270 CE: [page 5 of the Codex Regius , where Völuspá ends and Hávamál begins! Scan housed at germanicmythology.com.] S ure, the Poetic Edd a's verses are the ur-stories of Norse cosmology and Lore-wise if runes are the first alphabet given to man for writing then it stands to reason that they would u...