Laguz (ᛚ) — Water, Lake, Flow

Laguz (ᛚ), twenty-first rune and fifth of Tyr's ætt, is the rune of lögr — water in all its forms: the lake, the sea, the waterfall, the leek's sap rising from the soil. The Old Icelandic Rune Poem says: 'Lögr er, er fellr ór fjalli foss' — water is a river-fall from a mountain, and gold ornaments are costly things. In Norse cosmology, water is the medium of passage between worlds — the great serpent Jörmungandr encircles Miðgarðr in the ocean depths, and the dead cross waters to reach Hel's domain. Laguz governs both the terrors of the deep (the draugr-haunted sea) and the life-giving current (the sacred wells of Urðr and Mímir), for in the Germanic worldview, all waters ultimately connect.

Cross-Tradition Resonances