Runes: Week of Monday, September 7

The Younger Futhark kept the shape and changed the word. Úr here is slag, the dross left once the metal has been taken out, and the Icelandic poem glosses it as the cold rain that spoils the hay. There is a residue in this week: a run of effort that did not yield what it should have. The rune is unsentimental about it. What is left over is not raw material, and treating it as though it were will cost you a second week on top of the first. Take out anything still usable and then be finished with it.