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We can learn from this, like Sigurðʀ, how the runes may be wielded to effect, but it is obvious in the lecture from Brynhildʀ that rune-wisdom is a matter first and foremost of LEARNING, that one must KNOW the runes to work them rightly. Learning to know the wisdom of explicitly SECRET (ᚱᚢᚾᛟ) things, though, is not a plainly marked path laid out for the lazy desiring the easy.
Hangaguð's winning of this wisdom was at the precise opposite of little cost, and the Secrets are KEPT Secret except from those willing to brave the labyrinth of riddle to seek through their own sacrifices. It is for this reason that some of the most piercing and plainly open insights into the runes' nature are wound through the concealment of what are called the rune-poëmes.
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