Inside the finished Runes Box

The text in the box is an extract from one of the many translations of the epic poem Beowulf (nothing to do with the film of the same name; they used only the title). This one is from the Norwegian. In English the text reads:

'Exulting, the Lord established the sun and the moon

As lamps to illumine the land-dwellers;

Each kind of creature that creeps and moves.'

I have just completed my first collaboration, with snazzie-designz if you want to know more about the collaboration click here Collaboration ReflectionsIf you haven't done a collaboration already I can highly recommend it. It's a very productive medium. Speaking as a singer in a folk  band (until recently when I retired from it), I find it's like singing harmony duets. There is this similar intuitive potential for knowing what your partner is going to do and to incorporate this with your own proposed intentions, the end result being greater than the sum of its parts.
:devsnazzie-designs: made the whole process easier for me by using her superior computer abilities like a ball of string to guide me through deviantart's labyrinthine corridors. She also did the superb design of my Viking birth signs and transliterated the text into runes.
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This has been my first craft collaboration and an international one at that. Many