Ætt 1 · Pos. 7
Name
Day, the daylight.
Meaning
Daylight makes no distinction between people: rich or poor, everyone gets their share. It is also the measure of a life. When the Æsir set the sun and moon on their courses, they named morning, midday and evening so the years could be counted, and the English poem calls the giver of day metod, the Measurer, a word that first meant fate. Day belongs with Verðandi’s gift, the lived life that unfolds one day at a time, and with Hœnir’s, óðr, the stirred mind that wakes to each new day.
English Rune Poem
Day is the lord’s messenger,
dear to people,
the Measurer’s glorious light,
mirth and hope
to the fortunate and the poor,
of use to all.
