Dorothy Berry-Lound
Runes
Imagine that out of the mists of time, a piece of wood from a shipwreck drifts along in the ocean, surrounded by the smoke of conflict. On that piece of wood there is a symbol waiting to be discovered. But what is it? And what does it mean? Mystic and mysterious, that is the premise behind my Runes collection of images, a series of digital paintings depicting all 24 runic symbols. Runes are letters that were used in various Germanic languages for writing before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. As well as having a sound connected to them, as with the alphabet we use today, runes have meanings. I based my digital collection of rune images on the Elder Futhark alphabet, which has three sets of eight runes (24 in total). For each rune, my description includes the meaning behind the rune. I have also included the birth dates for each one, as individual runes cover particular calendar dates.
