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This episode is brought to you by Secrets Strange and Sweet.

Tonight, for our final selection in our Woodcraft series, we will read selections of the author's

poetry, published as Forest Ruins by George Washington Sears in 1887.

Sears was a writer and adventurer who penned essays on hunting, fishing, and camping for popular journals and magazines.

Runic alphabets are native to the ancient Germanic peoples before they adopted the Latin

alphabet.

The earliest runic inscriptions found on artifacts give the name of either the craftsmen or the proprietor, or sometimes remain a linguistic mystery.

Due to this, it is possible that the early ruins were not used so much

as a simple writing system, but rather as magical signs to be used for charms.

Although some say the ruins were used for divination, there is no direct evidence to suggest they were ever used in this way.

The name Roon itself taken to mean secret, something hidden, seems to indicate that knowledge of the

ruins was originally considered esoteric or restricted to an elite.

The Bluetooth logo is the combination of two ruins that are the initials of Herald Bluetooth Gormsons who was a kingdom of Denmark from the Viking Age.

Let's get cozy. close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Forest ruins, for I like him best in his morning face.

Untired with the daily race he runs.

And him sometimes sad when he yields his place to the winds of night and the lesser sons.

I ply thee thread and the brightened all to waterfall keeps merry time to lap stones ring.

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