Examining the Tyr Rune in 2025
The 2025 New Moon rune according to The Nordic Animist Year by Rune Rasmussen is Tyr/Tiwaz. In these posts I examine the prediction for the year based on the Swedish rune poem in Rune’s book. I then compare the Swedish rune poem to other rune poems to try to gain more insights. After that I examine historical data on weather/climate, as well as politics, to try to predict what to expect in this year. This is all speculative. I want to see if the 19 year cycle can predict world events, specifically in Scandinavia and circumpolar regions. We start with the Swedish Rune poem as that is in Rune Rasmussen’s book. Swedish Rune Poem: Tyr i Vatŭm ledast. Tyri brinner bäst i.e.. dyrast. Tyr (bull) is badly off in water/Tyr (bull) is meanest of spirits. Resinous wood is best for burning, i.e. hardest. The strangest part of this poem to me was how Rune was translating Tyr as a bull. I am not sure what his reasoning for this was. Since it doesn’t seem to actually say that in the Swedis...