Painted wings and giant rings

I received this scroll assignment the evening of September 25th, I quickly skimmed the email and said, oo! this would be a good candidate for a runestone!

Æsa feilinn and I had gone to home depot in the early spring and purchased a flat of slate tiles so we’d have some in reserve for future projects. I tucked one away in my closet for the eventuality, and now was that time.

Generally I outsource my viking words, I’m bad at words to begin with, and doubly unsure about poetry, but there wasn’t time. I started looking at various sagas and what not, seeing if there was anything I could easily crib, but it was taking too long. So I went to Wikipedia and did a bit of research into old Norse poetry styles and decided that I wanted to go with Fornyrðislag, which is an alliterative form, with short lines, done in stanzas that can stand alone.

So taking the information I had I came up with these lines:

I then transliterated it into runes and figured out the spacing that would work on my slate rock.

Silver Wheel W&V AS 53