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Which character is the equivalent of letter D (Δ):
» Runic alphabet | 12 to 25 letters | 1700A (+255) to 1300A (+655)
ᚠ, ᚢ, ᚦ, ᚨ, ᚱ, ᚲ, ᚷ, ᚹ, ᚺ, ᚾ, ᛁ, ᛃ, ᛈ, ᛇ, ᛉ, ᛊ, ᛏ, ᛒ, ᛖ, ᛗ, ᛚ, ᛜ, ᛞ, ᛟ, 🌲
In either elder or younger futhrak please!
The Phrase "Broken people fix Broken people".
Thanks in advance :))
My dog’s name was Odin. Both missing same eye. I really felt what Arteus was going through when he lost fenrir. I know it may sound lame but I really wanted to get "Sona Upp frá bessu Sona heõan Sofna" and didn’t know if someone could make sure I got it done correctly?
Any help would be appreciated
The Morton Strap End ᛗᚣᚾ, The Norfolk Bracteate ᚹᚫᚫᛏ, why is there just nothing written on the whole internet about a lot of these things in the corpus?
Is no one studying them? Is all of the information locked behind a paywall and thus inaccessible via regular search engines?
DM me if you can help.
Hi all,
I made a YouTube short about the last two rows of the inscription of the runestone in Rök. I thought you might appreciate it.
All the best.
I've been thinking about this ever since I heard of the idea. I haven't yet read about the evidence for it yet (I have requested the Elmer Antonsen book from an inter library loan but haven't heard back yet), but it does seem to make sense.
Because at least in Old English, this /æ/ vowel moved up to something more like /e:/. This is why you always see old TRAP words that are now pronounced like FACE words.
Also, if ᛇ was originally æ, it makes sense with ᚨ originally being further back. So in English, ᛇ moves up and ᚨ moves to the front.
I'm just thinking aloud, but what do you all think about this idea for ᛇ?
For example, ᚷ made a /g/ primarily and only sometimes makes a /j/. They make ᚸ and give it the original primary sound of ᚷ.
Why not let ᚷ keep the original sound and then give the new rune the new sound? My only thought on it is that they felt like they couldn't stop people from changing the sound of an existing rune. Because everything is so decentralized. So it's like "okay, if you're going to change the sound of that rune, let's at least have a rune that keeps the old sound".
I’ve seen people conflate these two, but they are different things, right?
In either elder or younger futhrak! Or both🫠🫠
“Open your heart to it” “Close your heart to it”
Thank you so much it would mean a lot!!
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?
Hi all,
Made another video about another runestone in Sweden. Here, the rune ᛦ has been used as an æ-sound. How common is that?
Check it out and let me know what you think.
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