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Icelandic Old Norse Mythology Celtic Viking Yggdrasil Tree of Life with Vegvísir Rune Power Symbol (Rectangle Floor Decor Rug, 5 SIZES!)

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Decorate your home or office with this beautiful rug depicting Yggdrasil the Tree of Life, and Vegvísir the Runic Power Symbol which symbolizes Odin's way will not be lost.

from Hávamál (stanza 138), a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age, Odin describes sacrificing himself to himself:

"I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows
from where its roots run."

The Old Norse name Hávamál is composed of Hávi, a form of Hár ('High One')... and the plural noun mál (from older mǫ́l), and means 'Song (or Words) of the High One'.

And from the following stanza:

"I took up the runes,
screaming I took them,
then I fell back from there."

Regarding the vegvísir (Icelandic for 'sign post, wayfinder'), from the Huld Manuscript which was collected by Geir Vigfusson in 1860:

"... if this sign is carried, one will never lose one's way in storms or bad weather, even when the way is not known".

The Icelandic (Old Norse) Vegvísir is composed of vegur (Old Norse vegr < Proto-Germanic *wegaz, or the Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.), meaning 'way, road, path' + vísir (Old Norse vísa meaning 'to show, point out, indicate', or the Proto-Germanic wīsōną or wisaz, meaning 'to visit'), meaning 'pointer, guide'. Vísir derives its meaning from the same word as the English wise.

Although oft confused to be Viking, there is no evidence of vegvísir being such; and the Huld Manuscript was collected 8 centuries after the end of the Viking Age. There is no known earlier attestation.

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  • 100% Polyester
  • Anti-Slip Backing
  • Machine or Hand Wash
  • For longest life... avoid direct sunlight!

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Raymond Hochdorfer
Complete trash...this is not a rug

I don't normally leave reviews but this is necessary this is not a rug a rug you put on the floor and people can walk on... A rug has a backing on it with interwoven fibers... The rug is made out of something more than reconstituted styrofoam... Highly highly disappointed in this purchase not what I was expecting at all. And I was looking so forward to this purchase from my living room... With very light traffic shoes off this piece of foam with colors that do not match the picture in the advertisement won't last 6 months before it looks like crap save your money and purchase something else... I will be returning this...