Dagaz ᛞ

Dagaz; day

There is no surviving Icelandic rune poem for dagaz. There is an Old English version, which has clearly been written under Christian influence.

The final rune of the final ætt, Dagaz is the rune of awakening, both in terms of light and in the mystical sense of awareness. It is a rune with no beginning, no end, and no inversion. The rune flows onwards like the modern sign for infinity. Dagaz represents the timeless place where extremes become one; darkness and light, life and death, body and soul, a concept close to the Sanskrit ‘enlightenment’. It is numinous.

In Blood of Wolves, the final book of the Rune Song trilogy, the heroine Adelais draws odhala in a rune cast, but the true power of this rune does not become apparent until much later.

For introductions to other runes, there’s a pull-down menu under the ‘Norse Runes’ tab. More details about the Rune Song epic fantasy trilogy via my ‘books’ pages or on Amazon UK or Amazon.com. All books are published by Second Sky / Hachette and are available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.