Read on to learn more about the origins of the Nordic runes,the meanings of individual runes, and how the Vikings used the runes. Nordic Runes Origins The wordrunecomes from the Germanic wordrun,which means secret or whisper. According to Norse mythology it was Odin, king of the gods, and...
Fiction does not merely narrate spatial sto- ries nor offer poetic spatial dimensions, it also sets spatiality into motion by stratifying spaces and places in multiple layers of meanings: spaces become literally storied—and stored—in fiction. This volume argues that the storied spaces of ...