#runestones

"Tjälve made the bridge after Bolla, his daughter. Ale and Olev had it carved (the stone) after Tjälve, their father, Inga after her husband. May God grant relief to their souls."

This set is named the Pyramid Runes because of the shape.

For the record, tetrahedral bag = hella awkward to sew, but it was a design choice that was entirely self-inflicted so really I have no right to complain. It's partially machine-sewn, partially hand-sewn. Exterior is green velvet; interior is a sort of burgundy microsuede-ish stuff. The blue nylon cord threads through six grommets to close the bag, is adorned with a beaded charm thing and cinched with a cylindrical red glass bead. Each pair of grommets is adorned with a beaded drop/pendant/charm thingy.

The stones are green glass, roughly tetrahedron-shaped. Runes were engraved into all four sides and filled in with metallic silver-white paint and baked in the oven to fuse the paint to the glass.

Merchants argue about the qualities of metals in the Guild Halls of Iltkazar, far to the south of Menzoberranzan in the Underdark, beneath the surface realm of Calimshan. "While Iltkazarn miners are quite capable of mining common ore such as copper, iron, gold, silver, and tin, they excel in discovering and working with rarer metals." (Michael Collins, Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark by Eric L Boyd, TSR, 1999)

So, Oda definitely was inspired by Viking Runestones, right? Specifically, maybe, the Gotlandic Picture Stones?

Nika

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And the Jörmungandr stone