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Image of red and white dragon battle, as allegory of Britons and Saxons having a bloodwrack, is from Merlin’s prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth. If he used elder source, I know it not.

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Fodder, as pivotal point, brings grail quest to conclusion. Drawing sword from fodder, becomes finding needle in haystack, literally. Perhaps, latter image is derived from the former.

Suddenly, the Runes are proven to be of British origin, depicted as rebus on a sword found in Thames River, to be unriddled, by finding a needle in a haystack, drawing sword from fodder.

Vegetative live is seeded and rooted, thus the image of drawing sword from stone is clear, as sprouting seed. Lady of lake causes watered seed to sprout.

Thames Scramasax is heavily garbled in the Runic sequence, to make it hard to solve. The last Rune (ior) in the Rune poem is also apparently missing. Ior is the sword itself!

The word “ior” has escaped all known dictionaries. But the Old Norse word “jurt”, meaning a plant, cognates with Old English “wyrt”. It fits the context as well.

It is noteworthy, that the idea of a rightful Cyning, is connected to the ability to unriddle riddles, in addition to being kinsman (kin+ing) to all clans. The former is wit, and latter is bloodline, caused by intermarriage between clans.

An IQ-test for kings is in itself a “checks and balances”, allowing the plough boy to solve the Runes, as well as the nobleman. If the common soldier can solve the riddle of power, and the general can not, then there is a problem.