A post to say thank to all the members of this group who helped clarify the runes and potential symbolism of a band logo on a sticker I found at a venue.

It's clear after reading the responses that it did indeed have far right associations. I was very impressed by the knowledge and insights expressed (and actual sources being given!) by the commenters. Thanks for your help.

I've taken the post down as it ceased to be particularly relevant to learning ancient Germanic languages (in reference to rule 1 of this group)and I have no desire to share that kind of imagery around now I know it's associations.

...and as someone rightly suggested, it is getting torn off at the next opportunity.

Hey everyone,

I’ve tied to translate and then transliterate the phrases “Hold Tight” and “Breathe Deep” into old Norse and then elder futhark. Just hoping someone can validate my work or give any additional input.

I have HOLD TIGHT translated as HALDA YETT (the Y being the closet thing on my keyboard to the thorn?) and transliterated to elder futhark as ᚺᛅᛚᛞᛅ ᚦᛖᛏᛏ

And BREATHE DEEP translated as ANDA DJUPR and transliterated as ᚨᚾᛞᚨ ᛞᛃᚢᛈᚱ

I need the man for man rune (or gay rune) to copy and paste pls :3

I’m new to this sub, and have very little experience with runes. This is from a video game I play. Does it mean anything or is it just nonsense? Thank you!

Hey guys, my dog Odin was sadly put to sleep last week. I'm looking to get his name tattooed. I'm just wondering if someone can confirm how Odin should correctly look?

ᛟᛞᛁᚾ is the first I've found but from research I seems that ᚢᛞᛁᚾ would be more accurate as apparently The Old Norse name for Odin is Óðinn (pronounced something like "O-thinn"), where ð (th sound) isn't directly represented in Elder Futhark."Óðinn" originally had more of an "U" or "Ó" sound at the start rather than "O."

Or would ᚹᛟᛞᚨᚾᚨᛉ (Wōdanaz) be more accurate? I'm so confused. Any help would be amazing!

I would like to be as grammatically correct as possible in breaking out:
"deyr sjalfr it sama"
which is the third line of the 77 Stanza in Havamal, full stanza reading (Gudni Jonsson translation):
"Deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjalfr it sama,
ek veit einn,
at aldrei deyr:
dómr um dauðan hvern"

Btw, I used a rune converter here for a younger futhark version of the full stanza, would love feedback on the quality of this:

auto-generated runes

The main question though is if "deyr sjalfr it sama" could possibly work on its own without the rest of the stanza. "die you will in the same way" is how I read it now, since it's referencing the previous lines. It would be a more complete phrase on its own if it said "you too will die" or rather "die you too will".

... but one way of looking at keeping it as "deyr sjalfr it sama" would be to have it represent the entire stanza (the constraint is because of the number of runes that can be fit into a design)

Thank you so much in advance for any input!!

Here’s my best attempt at one of my favourite movie quotes. Hopefully someone here can help me by telling me what this says, which will let me know if I’ve done it correctly!

Hey there :) I'm not sure if people have already asked this, but I couldn't find it. I was wondering the younger Futhark runes parallel to the elder ones (mostly to be able to read the rune poems with the correct rune in mind). For example Fehu is Fe in the younger, Sowilo is Sól (at least that's why I'm supposing for their names, designs and meanings), and so on, but I have a bigger doubt about Ár and Yr, since their designs and names are more different. I've been thinking Ár maybe as Jera since supposedly means year or harvest, and Yr maybe Eihwaz since both mention yew tree, but I honestly don't know. Could someone help me? Or maybe they simply don't have a parallel?

Can anyone please tell me what these runes mean, I came across this while looke for yggdrasil tatto ideas. I like the design I just don't know what the runes mean.

I saw this in my search for something Loki inspired. I've looked in the past at similar runes and I've tried to look into them before but ran into alot of people saying there's inaccurate ones and etc. I was directed here from another page to ask about this. Just wanted to see if it was accurate or if anyone could point me anywhere or have anything to help thanks for the time. Anything helps.

From Wikipedia, Medieval runes really crystallized in the 13th century. In the time between the widespread introduction of the Latin alphabet in Christian influences (and the general end of the Viking Age) and finishing the transition to medieval runes, how much use did Younger Futhark still see?

I'm looking to get a protection rune that isn't necessarily connected to any religion or god, but more so just encompassing the old gods and the beliefs from way back when. I found this picture of a protection rune and just wanted to check with real people and not just Google that this is actually a real protection rune or not. Thank you in advance!!

I going to add these two quotes to a tattoo and I wanted to see if I wrote them down correctly. Any thoughts?

Doing a small printing project and wanted the words “for infinity” inside the ouroboros, in Younger Futhark runes. The closest translation I could find was “Til ey” meaning “for forever”. Is this accurate? Is there a better phrase to use? And am I using the correct runes? I’m not as versed in younger Futhark. Also as an aside, is the Vikings of Bjornstad dictionary a reliable source for Old Norse translation?

Hello, I'm trying to figure out the runes message on this military challenge coin. It was given to me during a joint training exercise. I've tried deciphering it myself and came up with "NOFT(IJ)L" which I can't make heads or tails of. Hopefully y'all can help me figure it out! Thanks in advance!

I used an English to Rune converter but I wanted to double check that it's accurate. I want it to say 'Don't Look Down'. ᛞᛟᚾ×ᛏ ᛚᛟᛟᚲ ᛞᛟᚹᚾ ?

I’m looking at getting a tattoo for freyja/freya whichever spelling you prefer. And I saw this and thought it was beautiful, however I’m not sure how accurate it is. If it’s not, then do y’all have any advice on how to write it correctly?

I saw this rune the other day and thought to look up what it means. However, Google reverse image search hasn't been helpful, so I'm wondering if it's even a rune.

Any guidance appreciated!

Hi!

I need a translation for the sentence ''You will never walk alone". I think I prefer anglo-saxon runes. :)

Thank you in advance!

Hello, I would like to translate the year 1998 into runes. Is someone able to help verify that I've done it correctly?

I started with converting it into the old norse:
þúsund (1200) sex hundrað (720) ok sjau tigir (70) ok átta (8) = 1998

Then I tried to translate this into younger furthark

ᚦᚢᛋᚢᛏ ᛬ ᛋᛁᚴᛋ ᛬ ᚼᚢᛏᚱᛅᚦ ᛬ ᛅᚢᚴ ᛬ ᛋᛁᛅᚢ ᛬ ᛏᛁᚴᛁᛣ ᛬ ᛅᚢᚴ ᛬ ᛅᛏᛅ

This is quite verbose, and I read that sometimes numbers were shortened to just their starting rune. So I abbreviated the above into

ᚦ ᛬ ᛋ ᛬ ᚼ ᛬ ᛋ ᛬ ᛏ ᛬ ᛅ

This seems to open the number up to interpretation a little bit, which I'm okay with, but I would like to know if this is correct. Should the abbreviation include "ᛅᚢᚴ"/"ᛅ"?

Additionally, is there any information on when ᛫ vs ᛬ are used as word separators? Thank you

Hi there, anyone heard about such document. It's a copy of the original hand-made. Found in esoteric shop in french part Switzerland, but it seems there are some german words inside. On left and right there are chinese symbols (not sure about that).

It's just Fun'art/joke or maybe something "mystical" ? Any idea of the -general- meaning (not translation) ?

Thanks a lot !

For some background, I’m the DM for DnD campaign and one of my players wanted a silly spell theme for their character, to curse people with just mildly annoying and unfortunate afflictions.

So it’s really odd but could someone help me make a rune that at least roughly means “hemorrhoids”. I looked through the meanings of the elder futhark runes, but I couldn’t really figure it out.