About us
Hi, welcome.
My name is Bjarndís Helena Hönnudóttir Mikaelsdóttir Mackinnon Mitchell — though most people know me as Baddý.
RuneScope grew out of curiosity, research, language, and lived experience over time. It is deeply Icelandic, quietly Scottish, and firmly rooted in something much older than trends or tourism: the runes themselves.
I grew up reading horoscopes and systems of meaning that tried to explain why people are the way they are. RuneScope goes further. In the runic system, we are not defined by a single symbol. We are born with two runes — a Birth rune and a Fate rune — and that duality makes sense to me. We are layered, contradictory, evolving beings. One label is never enough.
Through study and design, I mapped the 24 Elder Futhark runes to seasons, time cycles, astrology, and lived rhythm. RuneScope is the result: a way to make the runes modern, practical, and personal, without stripping them of depth or cultural grounding.
RuneScope is not about mysticism for mysticism's sake. It is about reflection, language, pattern, and meaning — tools people have always used to navigate life.
Why I Do This
I have never spoken much about my health before, mostly out of pride. I have always believed that if my work was good enough, it should stand on its own.
Life, however, has been uncompromising.
When I was twenty years old, I survived a serious car accident in Nairobi, Kenya, which left me permanently disabled due to multiple spinal compression fractures (T10–L1) and lasting neurological damage. I can walk, but not without daily pain and limitation. Over the years, I have also become insulin-dependent with diabetes, survived a heart attack, undergone a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy for breast cancer, and lived for decades with fibromyalgia.
These are not stories of heroism. They are simply facts.
What they mean in practical terms is that I cannot hold a conventional job, nor can I rely on physical stamina in the way many people take for granted. What I can rely on is what I still have: language, pattern recognition, intuition, cultural knowledge, and a stubborn refusal to give up.
RuneScope is my attempt to build something constructive and meaningful from that foundation — without centering loss, and without asking for sympathy.
What RuneScope Is Meant to Be
RuneScope is many things at once:
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A less boring way to learn languages, especially Icelandic — one of the hardest languages in the world
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A bilingual tool (English / Icelandic/ Portuguese in the works) that helps learners, locals, and professionals move fluidly between both
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A practical reference for fortune tellers, readers, and creatives working with international audiences
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A daily reflection system that invites curiosity rather than blind belief
For Icelanders, RuneScope is inseparable from our language and cultural inheritance. Our alphabet still carries runic letters. Our institutions, symbols, and stories are woven through with runic logic whether we name it or not.
For everyone else, RuneScope is an invitation — not to "believe," but to engage.
I relate deeply to my own Ingwaz / Kenaz combination: always tinkering, building, experimenting, refining ideas. RuneScope is not the only project I work on, but it is the one that ties everything together.
One meaning, different voices
RuneScope messages are created separately in each language, rather than translated from one into another. Each follows a shared meaning brief, but finds its own natural wording, everyday situations and culturally familiar humour.
The jokes and scenarios can differ while the underlying meaning stays consistent. Think of it as linguistic improv: the same theme, performed in different voices.
Runes are our starting point—part of the rich history of writing in the north. RuneScope brings them into a playful conversation across languages, where meaning travels without every word having to follow. Imagine that.
A Living System
Runes have a long history as a writing system. RuneScope builds on pre-existing associations between runes, birth dates and hours. Its original contribution is the interpretation developed in the RuneScope Atlas, bringing rune meanings into dialogue with corresponding astrological traits.
RuneScope is not finished, and it never will be. The runes are not relics — they are living voices, interpreted through time, language, and context.
My aim is to honor tradition without freezing it in amber. To make something useful, thoughtful, occasionally playful, and genuinely helpful for people from many walks of life.
If RuneScope helps you reflect, learn, explore language, or simply enjoy a moment of insight — then it is doing its job.
Thank you for being here.
Baddý
Founder, RuneScope.online
RuneScope.online , RuneScope.is or RúnaSpá.is
Head office:
Rua José Lemos 11, Várzea de Meruge, 6270-631 Seia, Guarda, Portugal.
Tel:+351 924 385 743 or +354 898 8567
hello@runescope.online
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Our approach to rune readings
The Mirror, Not the Crystal Ball — on reflection, free will and the responsibility of reading runes for others.
