Serpent's Kiss by de la Cruz Melissa

Author:de la Cruz, Melissa [de la Cruz, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2012-06-11T22:00:00+00:00

hagalaz ------> h

ansuz --------> a

wunjo --------> w or v

algiz ---------> z or r but a per Norman

manaz -------> m

A -------------> a

laguz --------> l

“The ‘Hávamál’ poem!” cried mother and daughter in unison.

“Stanza one fifty-seven!” said Joanna, rushing over to her bookshelf. “I was making the puzzle so complicated, looking for an anagram.” Joanna scanned her shelves, then pulled out her leather-bound copy of The Poetic Edda, a collection of ancient Norse poems. Composed of 165 stanzas, “Hávamál” was a gnomic poem attributed to Odin, written as if he were imparting its wisdom himself—the word hávamál meaning “the high one’s words.” The poem was broken down into five sections: in the penultimate one, Rúnatal, Odin discovers the runes as he hangs wounded from a tree, while in the last section, Ljóðatal, Odin enumerates a list of spells. It was in this last section of the poem that Joanna found stanza 157, and she held the book aloft, reading aloud to Ingrid:

A twelfth I know:

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