Traditional meaning: world-serpent
Meanings when upright:
Meanings when inverted:
Ior can be useful for:
Anglo-Saxon rune poem:
Iar byþ eafix and ðeah a bruceþ
fodres on foldan, hafaþ fægerne eard
wætre beworpen, ðær he wynnum leofaþ.
Iar is a river fish and yet it always feeds on land;
it has a fair abode encompassed by water, where it lives in happiness.
There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ior.
A modern poem:
Sealing myself in skin of scales
means dropping the markings of *****.
Creature divine that lies truly between
but sans the blessings of femaleness.Nidhogg lies trapped underneath
the thick roots of Yggdrasil,
but I cannot allow Yewiffe to create
a jail for me out of my raging guilt.If I allow the gnawing inside
to render my psyche frail,
how will I have the strength to maintain this form
and manage to slip past the Veil?
It shifts in form and thickness
like a guard patrolling on duty,
but I must be quicker, protean,
in this conflict between us that rages constantly.After all, there's a prize,
a woman I've been yearning to reunite
with my entire Inside-bound life,
waiting for me on the other side.