He's listing the Elder Futhark runes (with Latin Characters) and their corresponding Anglo-Saxon Futhorc runes. For example, H in Elder Futhark was halgalaz and in Anglo-Saxon it became ᚻ (haegl), both usually symbolizing hail, or A in Elder Futhark corresponds to ansuz which was changed to correspond to o in A-S Futhorc as ᚩ (os), symbolizing god. I don't know where the other meanings come from, though I would guess from the "magic" in the title it has to do with that, and can think of much better ways to assign new "meanings" to Latin characters.

See omniglot for more information

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce

In reply to Re^2: signal-width+magic by kutsu
in thread signal-width+magic by cider

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