The Scandinavians had their own explanation for the appearance of the runes. According to legend, Odin, chief of the Norse gods, speared himself to a tree in a self-sacrificial attempt to receive ...

While the full interpretation will be published next month, they have identified the name Jaga, or Jagaz, and the phrase “Odin’s man.” Runes and bracteates all emerged from a melting pot of ...

Runes are symbols that early tribes in Northern Europe used to communicate in writing. Odin was one of the main gods in Norse mythology and was frequently associated with war as well as poetry.

The inscription, in letters called runes, says, "He is Odin's man" and the name "Jaga" or "Jagaz" in an early form of the Norse language. It is thought to refer to its owner, an Iron Age chieftain ...

“He is Odin’s man,” the disc reads, according to Krister Vasshus, who helped decipher the runes. He told NBC it additionally features a reference to a man named “Jaga” or “JagaR ...

While the full interpretation will be published next month, they have identified the name Jaga, or Jagaz, and the phrase “Odin’s man”. Runes and bracteates all emerged from a melting pot of ...

Nowhere is this more evident than the so-called “Odin runes,” an arcane set of symbols strewn around digital 9th-century England. They no doubt house an underlying meaning. And yet ...

The Blank Rune (also known as Wyrd or Odin's rune) The blank rune has no meaning in traditional rune casting and generally should not be used. The blank rune first appeared in the 1980s and is ...