Hello!

I am thinking of getting a tattoo of a coiling Midgard serpent with an inscription which roughly translates to “eternal return” or something which pays homage to the circle of life. Is there a translation for this, or perhaps an existing younger futhark phrase which expresses this sentiment?

Thanks!

I understand why people would want these two runes in different codepoints.

But in actual manuscripts or engravings, is there any difference in visual design at all? Do they look the same?

Some fonts have shorter flags coming off of Ansuz, or they slightly change the angles of one or the other. For example, here is Fairfax HD.

ansuz on the left and aesc on the right

But (no offense to the creator), is this design difference just due to a lack of knowledge of the runes themselves?

Hello this is my first post here I’m look for help with a tattoo I wanted Elder Futhark runes but I would like to know if should have them translate to direct English or if I should have them translated into icelandic as it’s the closest living language to old Norse

Wanting to get a tattoo that says "Open your heart to it" in runes (old norse). I've been told by different people that "of it" is not a thing in old norse, but I don't know if that's true. I am alright with "Open your heart" if that is the case. Any help will be appreciated.

What does Halestorm mean in runic?

Hello, I was looking for the word "fidelity" in Elder Futhark, but didn't find anything. Anyone has it? Thank you all!

Hello! I need an advice...

I''m making an image with different Frisian and Anglo-Saxon runic forms, and I have 3 questions:

1. I added to image all that only could find, even the forms from manuscript "Fuþorc-inspired" alphabets ("arabic", "syriac" etc), corresponding to phonetical values - but now I doubt - maybe it would be better to delete such "runes"?
2. There are 5 "unusual" runic forms from the Franks Casket - so, would it be correct to add them together with "usual" Fuþorc runes (of the same phonetical values)?
3. How to be with 2 unknown runes (from Baconsthorpe Clip and Sedgeford Handle)? If one of them transliterated as E - what is the value of another? Maybe to add them each separately, after all other runes?..

Thanks!

You're going to need to etch a lot of them. You're welcome!

hi, someone can transate me this to english please, is for a tattoo and i wanna make sure that i dont mess it up. ᛖᚲ ᛖᛘ ᚼᛁᛚ, ᛅᚢᚦ, ᚢᚬᚾᛏᚬᚾᛚᛁᚴᚱ ᛋᛁᚴᚱ

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F-gGOjPdTtxWXM_vDutLdsoq5HwR8TPN/view?usp=sharing

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The Wijnaldum Bone inscription is weird. RuneS transliterates it as ?zŋzuŋizŋ[...]. This is a tentative transliteration since some of the runes are hard to identify, but I'm going to roll with it.

If we suppose there was a transitional phase in West Germanic rune usage when ᛉ was no longer a Z-rune, but was not yet repurposed as an X-rune, then maybe for a time it was used as an E-rune, since there's evidence the name of ᛉ began with /e/ at the time. Something like this apparently happened among some North Germanic speakers for a time, as ᛦ was sometimes used for /æ//e//i/. A second E-rune would be redundant, but ᛇ was a redundant I-rune and still saw use. If we punch that E value in we get ?eŋeuŋieŋ[...]. I can't do anything with this new reading, but maybe someone can find some sense in it.

DrevniyMonstr had an attempted reading too, but I forget where it was posted.