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Roe (a runic throwback)

The names we have for things in nature have always intrigued me. They tell us something about our history as a species as well as revealing our complex relationship with it. After discovering that the earliest record of an Anglo-Saxon word was found written in runes on the back of a roe deer's hoof and simply read, "roe", I can't help but feel more of an ancient connection with this native species.

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Uploaded on December 21, 2021
Taken on May 30, 2021