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Small critique. Wouldn’t it make sense to only use the the thurisaz character for the soft unvoiced “th” sound such as in “faith” or “things” When writing a hard voiced “th” such as in “this” or “father” one should use the Eth character yes?

​@@Hreodrich It's always fun to discuss about such things! Thank you for the question! :) Let's start with the letter then. If we want to name it correctly - it's not thurisaz. It is actually a letter called "thorn", because "thurisaz" is a rune in elder futhark ("thorn" originates in "thurisaz", but it has its application in English, while "thurisaz" was used in writing runic inscriptions). It's a detail, but let's be specific, when we cover such a subject. Diving into usage of a "thorn" itself - yes, you're right about a general rule! But, it also depends on what you bring to the table as a source. We didn't based our lyrics 100% on academic dictionaries (we had a small, academic help at some point), but on the old, English and Scandinavian books, poems and other forms of written art (sometimes with very early forms of translations). In some of them, "th" isn't always replaced (which proves your point), but in some other - it is. As if all that weren't enough - there are differences in some of the "versions" of those books, from what I observed. Sometimes "thorn" was used a few pages earlier and the "ð" was used in the same exact word a few pages later in the same book (I believe it was because a monk, who was rewriting the book was replaced with someone else, but that's just my theory). I don't remember every piece I read, because there were so many of them (and I did it between 2020 and 2021, so some time ago), but I remember there was one book with some kind of "transitional form" of Old English and Middle English on the left side of the page with "Modern English translation" on the right, where even a hard voiced "th" was replaced with the "thorn" letter. So, I would say "Yes. And no." as an answer for your question or, to be more "controversial", consider answering with "It depends." :) But, the usage of "thorn" isn't an only thing with our lyrics what can be discussed. Of course, we wanted to stay faithful and respectful to the sources and their authors (even with such details as used letters), when we were constructing "the language of Seiðr", but, on the other hand, I believe that professors, who are specialized in Old English, wouldn't consider us as a solid source of knowledge about older forms of English. And that's fine for us. It's just our manner to tell a story, to give it its own timbre. I would call our language treatments a linguistic stylisation, which can bring specific emotion, the feeling of reading something forgotten, but also something, which can be understood by a modern English user after a while. It also connects with a feeling we wanted to bring with all of things I'm talking about, because we wanted lyrics to feel a bit like a story told by an old, Scandinavian settler, living somewhere in the North of England. And... that's it I believe. If you have any other questions - feel free to ask! Maybe I'm not academically educated in linguistic direction or philology (I'm a student of a medical university and I did that research for the band in my free time in 2020/2021), but I can at least share what I remember or do another research :)

@@bartomiejbardon3047 ah makes more sense now. Thanks for the reply! Either way I am loving your music right now, keep it up!

@@Hreodrich My pleasure! :)