The Rune Converter transforms English letters into five systems of runic writing: Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, Long Branch and Short Twig Younger Futhark
The wordrunecomes from the Germanic wordrun,which means secret or whisper. According to Norse mythology it was Odin, king of the gods, and god of wisdom and war, that gained knowledge of the runes. In this story from Norse mythology, he willingly hung himself from Yggdrasil, the Tree of ...
I often receive requests towrite in runesan Old Norse word or phrase. People naturally tend to expect that nothing could be easier, since runes were initially created for the Old Norse language. There should be rules as for how to write with runes in that language. There should be some ki...
Although it is very uncommon, on occasion the Vikings would use the runic letters to stand for a numeral. I was only able to find a couple of inscriptions that used this practice, and here they appear to just be abbreviating the word for the number and representing it by its first lett...
The wisdom greedy Odin is also said to have drunk the entire horn of the Mead of Poetry to gain mastery of the spoken word. He had to turn himself into a snake and rely on all his trickery to sneak his way into the stronghold of the giants that were guarding the mead, and seduce ...
The rune Algiz/ Algizreversed Key Ideas: Man and woman are created at the same time, equally, and given the same gifts by the gods. Human beings are created from already living material, wood/trees. If we laid the images over one another and added a circle, we'd have a spoked wheel...
This is a mighty spear that was created by the dwarf sons of Ivaldi as a gift for the god Odin. It was said that once thrown, it wouldalways hit its target.Odin is often featured holding onto the Gungnir in a myriad of texts and artworks. Some writings claim there are rune Norse sy...
In addition to these poetic references, there are early runic and artistic depictions of what anthropologists believe is Yggdrasil in tapestries, on rune stones, and in carvings. Yggdrasil is the home of the nine worlds of Norse mythology. These worlds are: Asgard, home of the gods Álfheim...
Viking Rune Stone The Norse religion began to disappear in the late 10th century as the Scandinavian people gradually adopted Christianity. However, there were still pagans in parts of this religion until the 11th century. Aesir Definition The word "Aesir" means "gods" in Old Norse. After a...
26 In this context, it is surprising that the historical custom of erecting rune stones for com-memoration is hardly reflected in the literature. This may be due to the fact that many of these stones were erected in Sweden, whereas the “canonic” literature explored here originated from the...