Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 100 copies
A pencil drawing of a skull impaled on a ᛦ (Yr rune).
The Yr rune ᛦ is a rune of the Younger Futhark. Its common transliteration is a small capital ʀ. The shape of the Yr rune in the Younger Futhark is the inverted shape of the Elder Futhark rune (ᛉ). Its name yr («yew») is taken from the name of the Elder Futhark Eihwaz rune.
The Yr rune came to be seen as the «life rune» inverted and interpreted as «death rune» (Todesrune) During the World War II era, these two runes (ᛉ for «born», ᛦ for «died») came to be used in obituaries and on tomb stones as marking birth and death dates, replacing asterisk and cross symbols (* for «born», † for «died») conventionally used in this context in Germany.
Traditionally, the skull represents death, evil, fear and mortality; but it can also symbolize the complete opposite: protection, power and gratitude toward life.
