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The poem Hávamál explains that the originator of the runes was the major god Odin. The following part describes how Odin received the runes through self-sacrifice:

I know that I hung on a windy tree,
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run.

No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn,
downwards I peered;
I took up the runes,screaming I took them,
then I fell back from there.

[ Veit ek at ek hekk vindga meiði a
netr allar nío,
geiri vndaþr ok gefinn Oðni,
sialfr sialfom mer,
a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn.

Við hleifi mik seldo ne viþ hornigi,
nysta ek niþr,
nam ek vp rvnar,
opandi nam,
fell ek aptr þaðan. ]

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Description
see details on my blog [link]

The poem Hávamál explains that the originator of the runes was the major god Odin. The following part describes how Odin received the runes through self-sacrifice:

I know that I hung on a windy tree,
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run.

No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn,
downwards I peered;
I took up the runes,screaming I took them,
then I fell back from there.

[ Veit ek at ek hekk vindga meiði a
netr allar nío,
geiri vndaþr ok gefinn Oðni,
sialfr sialfom mer,
a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn.

Við hleifi mik seldo ne viþ hornigi,
nysta ek niþr,
nam ek vp rvnar,
opandi nam,
fell ek aptr þaðan. ]

{more info here [link] }

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more abstract patterns [link]