Laguz · Laguz

Tyr's Aett · No. 21 · Sound L

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Pronunciation
*laguz/ˈlɑ.ɡuz/
English respellingLAH-gooz

Form after Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (2013). The asterisk marks a linguistic reconstruction — no recording of Proto-Germanic exists. The IPA follows Ringe's (2006) sound system; the audio is a synthesised approximation. Trust the IPA over the audio.

Keywords
IntuitionEmotionThe unconsciousFlow
Literal meaning

Water, lake

Symbolism

A stave with a single upper branch — a wave, or an oar dipping. Water has no shape of its own yet passes through everything: emotion, and what lies below conscious awareness.

Upright

Trust what you feel over what you can analyse. Dreams, intuition, and deep feeling are carrying information right now. A strong period for creative work, healing, and letting things flow rather than forcing them.

Reversed (Merkstave)

Emotion flooding judgement, or feeling suppressed until it turns toxic. It can mean irrational fear, avoidance of reality, or exhaustion from swimming against the current.

Advice

Stop fighting the current. Float, and see where it carries you.

HistoryAbove is modern interpretation, which you can edit. Below is sourced historical material.
In daily life

The Vikings travelled primarily by water — rivers, lakes and open ocean. The Anglo-Saxon poem describes the sea from the point of view of someone afraid of it: endless to those who must trust themselves to a pitching ship, the waves horses that will not take a bridle.

Rune poem · Icelandic Rune Poem
Lögr

Water — eddying stream and broad geysir and land of the fish.

Icelandic Rune Poem — oldest manuscript c. 1500 (AM 687 d 4°). Reproduced verbatim from Dickins (1915)

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Aett
Tyr's Aett
Element
Water
Associated deity
Njord, Nerthus
Sound
L