Sepulchrave II
Legend
And what might be inferred of Eadric's mother just raises all kinds of questions.
There's a fair bit of linguistic and symbolic hokey-pokey going on on the tomb:
[sblock]Ƿéostru or Ƿéostrig in Old English (Thiustri in Old Saxon) means “dark, darkness, gloominess,” both literally and metaphorically; it is often used to translate Latin tenebrae. Ƿiostri (Thiostri) is a more uncommon spelling.
Nân is “nothing, none;” Mōd is “inner man, spirit, soul”; Sauil is “sun, solar, Sol.” Orm is wyrm, dragon.
28-29 (or so) years is a Saturn cycle or a progressed lunar cycle. 28 is also the number of lunar mansions, and the total number of domains associated with Oronthon.
Proper names aside, in addition to the literal interpretation of the words upon the tomb of Eadric’s mother, the encrypted meaning might be distilled as this:
Darkness
Who abode through a cycle of time
Daughter of Nothingness
Wife of the Sun’s Soul
Mother of Wyrm and Ahma
[/sblock]Who abode through a cycle of time
Daughter of Nothingness
Wife of the Sun’s Soul
Mother of Wyrm and Ahma