The Norse settled, obviously, first in the Norway/Iceland region. Offshoots moved across Europe and, especially, into the area known modernly as Ireland and Scotland. The early Celts were these dislodged Norse, who later moved away from Runic, and who also, obviously, made Stonehenge. Also, Norse knotwork would become what is known today as Celtic knotwork. A lot of people that have ‘Celtic’ knots and symbols in their tats actually, ironically, have symbols and knots that were originally Norse.

The tree is the tree of life, or the world tree. I’m not going to sit and lecture on that, though… if you’re curious about an ancient and barely still existant religion, look it up yourself. I also cannot make out the first word’s intent with the runic.

I can’t clearly read the first half of the runes in the first word. The rest is “—ing is the path I chose”, twice using tyr-hail where the thorn would be appropriate, and once using is-nyd-ing where only ing was needed. And the sound of “I” is more aesc than is, but I’m nitpicking now.