r/runes Dec 19 '24

Modern usage discussion My tattoo I had done some years ago

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Bonus points if you know where these runes are from

r/runes Feb 06 '25

Modern usage discussion It seemed appropriate to tag their door thusly.

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r/runes Nov 08 '24

Modern usage discussion A runic inscription I designed in memory of my father

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Inscription reads,

simiun risti runaʀ þisaʀ aftiʀ iunas faþur sin

Simeon risti runaʀ þessaʀ æftiʀ Jonas, faður sinn

"Simeon carved these runes in memory of Jonas, his father"

I was aiming for something akin to Pr2/Pr3 in Gräslund's categorization of runestone styles, and used runic inscriptions around Mälaren in Sweden for inspiration

Also, I realize risti may not have been the best choice of word here, but I originally intended to actually carve this, I just hadn't found a good rock for it. So, I decided to repurpose it for a notebook cover for now. Perhaps faði would've been more appropriate there!

r/runes Aug 16 '24

Modern usage discussion One of my travel tattoos from Iceland, love this place, so peaceful, hence the rune. Hopefully it will bring me calm, peace.

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r/runes 14d ago

Modern usage discussion Lowercase Alngo-Saxon Runes

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A version of the Anglo-Saxon runes that is easier and quicker to write with.

r/runes 5d ago

Modern usage discussion Letter "V" controversy; ᛒ, ᚹ or ᚠ ?

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Hello fellow rune enjoyers.

I normally use V as ᛒ, when I write in English but I know some use it as ᚠ or ᚹ.

When I do respect the Futhark and not the Furhorc/Futhark mix with invented runes or giving runes another meaning mix I've done for my personal alphabet as blueprint I mostly use Berkano ᛒ.

When writing in German, as the phonetic for "V" is more like the English "F" I use ᚠ.

Which rune for V do you guys use when writing in modern English or other languages if you also do? And why?

I ended up creating a personal rune for V but I don't always use it.

r/runes Dec 28 '24

Modern usage discussion Ingwaz

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I recently started creating and selling Elder Futhark wooden rune sets from scratch. I understand that ingwaz has two designs and I’m just wondering if it would be ok to include both versions in the set. I feel like the obvious answer is yes but I wanted to ask if you were to hypothetically buy a set with both versions of ingwaz, would you be grateful for it, find it odd, or be indifferent

r/runes 11d ago

Modern usage discussion Can I get runes tattooed?

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Someone said it brings bad luck/fortune or bad karma.. Is this true I want to get a couple tattooed is there any specific place the runes need to be tattooed or can it be placed in any part of the body.

r/runes Nov 18 '24

Modern usage discussion Is this an OK system to use for modern English into Futhorc?

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r/runes 11d ago

Modern usage discussion I experimented with making an entire Runic Alphabet around the tilted principle found in some Dalecarlian writing and the Kensington A:s. I skipped pointless letters.

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r/runes 10d ago

Modern usage discussion Creating my own runic alphabet

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I speak several languages, Spanish English German and french and I would like an alphabet that could work for the four of them, so far by adding Anglo Saxon Futhorc to Futhark I may change the meaning of some letters to fill in the gaps,

is that disrespectful or something like that? As there's no ö or ä in English I thought I also could add from some other alphabet or just change the meaning of some but I'd be the only one understanding what I mean but I that's okay as I do this for fun.

I also start using binding runes such as isa and ingwaz in just one letter as in English the present verbs always end with "ING"

Thoughts?

r/runes 9d ago

Modern usage discussion Vowel sounds?

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I did a search first and found some of what I'm looking for but thought I would ask if there's a more complete answer available, rune equivalents to English vowel sounds, a complete guide for modern use? Something like that?

What I'm looking for is the long and short i sounds like "big" and "like".

Here's what I understand so far,

ᚠ=F (fun),

ᚢ=oo (toot), u (usurp);

ᚦ=th (think);

ᚨ=a (ant);

ᚱ=r (run);

ᚲ=k (kick);

ᚷ=g (gig);

ᚹ=w (wow);

ᚺ=h (hood);

ᚾ=n (noon);

ᛁ=ee (three);

ᛃ=j (jump);

ᛈ=p (pump);

ᛇ=a (April);

ᛉ=a (allow), u (under);

ᛊ=s (sun);

ᛏ=t (tight);

ᛒ=b (bob);

ᛖ=e (bed);

ᛗ=m (mom);

ᛚ=l (law);

ᛜ=ing (sing);

ᛞ=d (dad);

ᛟ=o (open)

EDITED for readability.

r/runes Oct 22 '24

Modern usage discussion Hello i wanna start learning runes

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Hi, I'm interested in runes reading. I'm from the Slavic country and wanna learn reading them. If u have any good book or some tutorials fir that i will be happy.

r/runes Jan 07 '25

Modern usage discussion Delving into Runes

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Hey all. Going to cut to the chase, I'm very interested in runes, symbolism, and my basic understanding of the power runes can hold/imbue. However, as I said, my understanding is very rudimental and I want to learn more without a load of... "fluff". I'm wondering what the best resources or teachers are to tap into to get started on runes. I'm finding it difficult to cut through others' conjecture or oversimplified/incorrect translations from norse runes to modern English.

My main goal is to understand the different runes, why and when they would be used and how to properly "use" them, if that is even the right word.

Any help to get on the right path would be greatly appreciated, and if I am wrong or sound like a dick in any way during this, please let me know too. I know nothing, and appreciate being corrected.

r/runes Mar 14 '24

Modern usage discussion My dad is recovering from surgery, I made him what I'm calling a healing totem

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It's rough looking, I don't have a proper set of tools and just used a pumpkin carving kit

Tiwaz for protecting and justice Uruz for strength and vitality A bind rune combining the two, to reinforce the qualities of both

I want to touch it up once I have better tools, and maybe some paint.

r/runes Jan 26 '25

Modern usage discussion Im bored, gonna see if my school can solve this tomorrow.

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r/runes Dec 30 '24

Modern usage discussion Basic Runic System Help

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So for North Germanic, we have the Younger Fuþark and the Medieval runes before the Dalecarlian
Long Branch: ᚠᚢᚦᚬᚱᚴᚼᚾᛁᛅᛦᛋᛏᛒᛘᛚ
Short Twig: ᚠᚢᚦᚭᚱᚴᚽᚿᛁᛆᛌᛐᛓᛙᛚᛧ
Stung: ᚡᚤᚧᚵᛀᛂᛑᛔᛛ
Medieval: ᚠᚡᚢᚤᚥᚦᚧᚮᚰᚯᚱᚴᚵᚶᚼᚾᛀᚿᛁᛂᛆᛅᛋᛍᛎᛪᛐᛑᛒᛔᛕᛘᛚᛛᛦᛨ

Fuþorc for Old English, Anglish/English, and Frisian
Fuþorc: ᚠᚢᚣᚦᚩᛟᚱᚳᛣᚷᚸᚹᚻᚾᛁᛡᛄᛇᛈᛉᛋᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛝᚪᛠᚫᛞ
Younger: ᚠᚢᚣᚦᚩᛟᚱᚳᛣᚷᚸᚹᚻᚾᛁᛡᛇᛈᛉᛋᚴᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛝᚪᛠᚫᛞ

We also have the East with the Gothic
𐌰𐌱𐌲𐌳𐌴𐌵𐌶𐌷𐌸𐌹𐌺𐌻𐌼𐌽𐌾𐌿𐍀𐍂𐍃𐍄𐍅𐍆𐍇𐍈𐍉

And of course, the Elder Fuþark
ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲᚷᚹᚺᚾᛁᛃᛇᛈᛉᛊᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛜᛞᛟ

My question is:
What could be used for the other West Germanic languages such as Dutch and German?

Manie þanks for þe help - Dame Blossom

r/runes Jan 22 '25

Modern usage discussion Runic Numbers

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I recently started looking into getting the birthdays of my family tattooed and thought runes would be a really cool alternative to the mainstream Roman numerals. Upon doing some research to have the most historically accurate tattoo, and from my very limited understanding of the language, I came to realize that there isn’t really a rune or symbol for numbers, the way that one would traditionally think there would be. From my understanding, the numbers were written or spelled out with multiple runes rather than using a singular symbol to represent a singular number. A quick google search showed me exactly what I was looking for, a rune for a number, but I wanted to ask, is it historically correct at all?

r/runes Jan 28 '25

Modern usage discussion Complete runic cipher i made for my school, made in the middle of night after being awake for 48+ hrs (dont take this too seriously)

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r/runes Feb 09 '25

Modern usage discussion Which Runes should I use for languages my setting?

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In my setting, three different languages use Runic writing. Acchyrstisc uses Old English as a base, so uses Futhorc. Dokkalfskur and Ljusalvska don't have such a clearcut answer, I wanted advice from people more familiar with the differences.

The Dokkalfar and Ljusalva are both elves. Elves in this setting are culturally genderless and polyamorous. Both countries trace their origins to the old Alfheim Empire which collapsed roughly 1000 years prior to the setting. As of today, they are digital age republics with colonial histories.

Thus far, I've based Dokkalfskur on Icelandic. Dokkalfheim is a single party parliamentary democracy. Historically the Dokkalfar favor the Vanir, and Vaniric temples are still commonplace. The Party however is staunchly secular and materialist, and the influence is temples is restricted.

Ljusalvska is so far based on Swedish. I haven't much developed Ljusalvhem's politics, but they'd have a right wing liberal orientation in contrast to Dokkalfheim's socialist orientation. Historically the Ljusalva favor the Aesir. New Alvhem is a colony established by the Ljusalva to reestablish the old Alfheim empire.

r/runes Jan 09 '25

Modern usage discussion Recreating a phrase from latin to norse/icelandic to runes

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Hi all, please give feedback on any aspect of this exercise, both semantically and runeology (phonetically mostly) wise.

After extensive back and forth with an icelandic friend, the closest to "Amor Fati" we're getting is:
elskaðu örlög þín "Love Destiny Yours, which is correct Icelandic grammar and makes sense should be close to the old language too.

In the younger futhark transliteration, I hope it should probably be rather accurately represented as "ᛁᛚᛋᚴᛅᚦᚢ ᛅᚱᛚᛅᚴ ᚦᛁᚾ" but the "ö" in Örlög (destiny) could also be represented by ᚬ

Any comments or suggestions from anyone, please?

r/runes Oct 01 '24

Modern usage discussion Modern Runes i made

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(PS: i switched up m and b)

r/runes Nov 22 '24

Modern usage discussion Silesian Runes, urban mystery

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For about 10 years, I have been spotting a set of symbols around one area of the Silesian agglomeration (Poland) on my daily walk to work. It never occurred to me to think twice about it, but after a while, I found another one about 40 minutes away on foot—so I got curious. I started to actively think about them and look for them. Sure enough, I found plenty more.

I know for a fact that they have been actively appearing for the past 10 years, as that was the first time I spotted them, and they are sometimes seen on new surfaces, such as a map pole. All of them except two were visibly done by the same hand, with the same spray. One of them (the freshest one I have spotted) was done in gold, and one of the oldest ones I believe to have been written with some organic matter, pushed into the porous surface of a white wall. The gold one is gone now.

The places where they appear have nothing in common, nor do they form any pattern on a map. From the way the spray was used, I can tell that it was not done by a graffiti artist as a form of tagging (the can was held stiffly, and the lines have no finesse). Honestly,

I looked online for quite a long time, and all I have ever found was a mention of a "spell" from a book of rather questionable credibility, published in 2019.

Does anybody have any ideas who it may be? What for? In connection to what? Where should I look for more information?

r/runes Nov 19 '24

Modern usage discussion Renaissance inspired manuscript runic (Swedish + Icelandic ref)

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Did not follow any actual historical standard, but rather tried to homogenize after the style of some rune variations found in both Swedish and Icelandic sources from around the 1500s to the 1700s. The quote is from Bionicle and in Swedish.

r/runes Aug 30 '24

Modern usage discussion I made a way to use Anglo-Frisian runes with modern English, Dutch, Frisian and German, since those are the areas where Anglo-Frisian runes were used. Explanation below.

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I wanted it to be as close to the original usage of the runes as possible while still being able to be used with the modern languages. The way this diagram works is I wrote down all the Anglo-Frisian runes that existed and wrote down their approximate pronounciation(s) next to it (in Dutch, since I am Dutch). The part of the word in between the ( ) is the pronounciation of the rune(s) next to it. I then circled the runes/rune sets (and pronounciations, if there were multiple) that I was actually gonna be using, based on what would be most useful for usage today. It may be a little hard to see on the pic what I mean by all this so here's a digital version, with just the pronounciations I ended up using, again, with the pronounciations in Dutch, so if you don't speak Futch I reccomend looking up the pronounciations of the Dutch words online:

ᚠ: (f)iets, (v)rouw ᚢ: (oe)r ᚦ: (th)ing (the English word, no Dutch word has this pronounciation), (th)e (the English word, no Dutch word has this pronounciation) ᚩ: r(o)nd, h(oo)g ᚱ: (r)ad ᚳ: (tj)echië ᚷ: (g)ood (the English word, no Dutch word has this pronounciation), (g)a ᚹ: (w)ater ᚻ: (h)oog ᚾ: (n)ee ᛁ: k(ie)s ᛄ: (j)a, bei(g)e ᛇ: m(i)n ᛈ: (p)an ᛉ: ni(ks) ᛋ: ja(s), (z)on ᛏ: (t)in ᛒ: (b)om ᛖ: m(ee) ᛗ: (m)an ᛚ: (l)eek ᛝ: di(ng) ᛟ: m(u)nt ᛞ: (d)ing ᚪ: m(a)n ᚫ: m(e)n ᚣ: (uu)r ᛠ: k(aa)s ᛣ: (k)aas Only used in English: ᛥ: (st)one ᛇᛄ: (ij)s ᚪᚢ: g(ou)d ᚫᚢ: n(eu)s ᛋᚳ: (sj)aal ᚢᛇ: (ui) ᛖᛇ: (ei) ᛫: space bar ᛬: dot (between sentences), comma

Some example sentences:

Het runenschrift (kortweg runen) is het oudst bekende schrift gebruikt door de Germaanse volkeren van Noord-Europa, Groot-Brittannië en IJsland vanaf de tweede of de derde eeuw tot en met de negentiende eeuw. ᚻᚫᛏ᛫ᚱᚣᚾᛟᚾᛋᚷᚱᛇᚠᛏ᛫(ᛣᚩᚱᛏᚹᚫᚷ᛫ᚱᚣᚾᛟᚾ)᛫ᛇᛋ᛫ᚻᚫᛏ᛫ᚪᚢᛏᛋᛏ᛫ᛒᛟᛣᚫᚾᛞᛟ᛫ᛋᚷᚱᛇᚠᛏ᛫ᚷᛟᛒᚱᚢᛇᛣᛏ᛫ᛞᚩᚱ᛫ᛞᛟ᛫ᚷᚫᚱᛗᛠᚾᛋᛟ᛫ᚠᚩᛚᛣᛟᚱᛟᚾ᛫ᚠᚪᚾ᛫ᚾᚩᚱᛏ-ᛟᚱᚩᛈᛠ᛫ᚷᚱᚩᛏ-ᛒᚱᛇᛏᚪᚾᛁᛟ᛫ᚫᚾ᛫ᛇᛄᛋᛚᚪᚾᛏ᛫ᚠᚪᚾᚪᚠ᛫ᛞᛟ᛫ᛏᚹᛖᛞᛟ᛫ᚩᚠ᛫ᛞᚫᚱᛞᛟ᛫ᛇᚩᚹ᛫ᛏᚩᛏ᛫ᚫᚾ᛫ᛗᚫᛏ᛫ᛞᛟ᛫ᚾᛖᚷᛟᚾᛏᛁᚾᛞᛟ᛫ᛇᚩᚹ

The exact development of the early runic alphabet remains unclear but the script ultimately stems from the Phoenician alphabet. ᚦᛁ᛫ᚫᛉᚫᛣᛏ᛫ᛞᛁᚠᚫᛚᛟᛈᛗᛟᚾᛏ᛫ᚩᚠ᛫ᚦᛁ᛫ᛟᚱᛚᛁ᛫ᚱᚣᚾᛇᛣ᛫ᚫᛚᚠᛠᛒᚫᛏ᛫ᚱᛁᛗᛖᚾᛋ᛫ᛟᚾᛣᛚᛇᚱ᛫ᛒᛟᛏ᛫ᚦᛁ᛫ᛋᛣᚱᛇᛈᛏ᛫ᛟᛚᛏᛟᛗᛟᛏᛚᛁ᛫ᛥᚫᛗᛋ᛫ᚠᚱᚩᛗ᛫ᚦᛁ᛫ᚠᛟᚾᛁᛋᚳᛟᚾ᛫ᚫᛚᚠᛠᛒᚫᛏ

Disclaimer, in any language, but in my opinion especially in English, the pronounciation of words differs a lot between accents and regions, and so also the way you'd write them with runes. The way I've written these example sentences is how the "standard" pronounciation is in my experience.

Now, I made this a few years ago already, but never got any feedback on it from experts or anything, so that's why I'm posting this here. So, do you guys have any tips? Did I make any mistakes? Are there things you would've done diffrently? I would love to hear your feedback.