![]() Now it's some-what debated if the runes were only used to write a language or for magical purpose as well. The runes did have magical purposes even in the old days The rune poems we know are from Icelandic, Old Norwegian and English backgrounds and you can find them on the interenet, I believe wikipedia has them all listed out as well. We know these from old poems that were used to remember the runes - similar to some of the childrens songs you see today where they sing something along the lines of "a is for apple, b is for bee, c is for cat and d is for dog". The Anglo-Saxon futhark was used in England by the inhabitants of that land to write Old English.Īt least the Anglo-Saxon and Younger Futhark ones do. The Younger Futhark was used to write Old Norse and was the one in common use during the Viking age. With the futharks depicted on here the oldest is the Elder Futhark and that was used to write the proto-norse language. ![]() There's also a gothic futhark and numerous others as well. There are actually more futharks in the world with one of the oldest being a Portugese one, if you're interested in that look up on youtube Arith Härger as he has done an amazing job exploring that. Runes were used to write different languagesĪs you can see here - there are three different futharks, they each symbolize a different language. The main speculated reasons are that it's an alternate greek alphabet that was written this way or that the futhark sequence we know nowadays is some magical/cryptic sequence instead of the regular ABC sequence and that for unknown reasons it became the widely used version. There is no agreed reason or evidence why it's so different from all the other writing systems where always an alphabet is used. It's the same for runes, the first six letters are F U Th A R K. Our current collection of letters is called an alphabet because alpha-beta are the two first letters. The translator on here I've used the most common and agreed upon way of transfering runes to the English sounding alphabet. ![]() So this is something to keep in mind when using runes, they transfer better when using phonetically. ![]() Similar differences occur even nowadays between different languages, for example the English letter A and Estonian letter A - even though they are written the same way they express a different sound. For example the rune ᚦ makes a noise that is similar to the english written "th" and you can see we need two letter to express that sound. Angle was Avgle and so on.Meaning that each rune symbolizes a certain noise that you can make with your mouth - instead of having a one to one conversion between a latin letter and rune letter. Norman for example was pronounced Normyn. Bear in mind that some words cannot have literal translations. As long as the particular rune you use has the same sound you're good to go, but cross reference the runes to make sure they are definitely an alternative for the same rune in another set from another region by checking their 'sound' or phonetic.Īfter I got my Runes together from a mix of different sets, I pasted them in a translator and they spelt out the English version which is comforting. So use phonetics as your base and take it from there, choosing the best looking font for each rune cherry picked from different sets. You'll see from the different fonts that they use different rune symbols for the same rune, it doesn't matter because all the variations make the same sound. The Runes in your tattoo should be assembled this way using the runes which phonetically sound like the letters you want.īest phonetic translator I found is and I downloaded a dozen different Rune fonts so I can pick the nearest matches for each rune. The Danish set was reduced down to an alphabet of just 16 in the end.įor tattoo, best way forward is phonetic spelling, think of how you spell words differently for a speech synthesizer on a computer. Also different regions use completely different Rune symbols in some cases, these changes reflect evolution over the centuries. A 'G' for example is an 'X' but sometimes you will see a diamond in the centre of the x or other stuff, you can use any of them. The explanation: Many letters are stylised from one region to another. Erik, I had the same problem and I wrote to experts at Universities.
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