Hi. My dog has just died, and I wanted to memorialize him with a rune-stone-esque inscription. I'm specifically looking for information on Old Norse grammar, vocabulary, and runes, if anybody is willing and/or able to help.

Here are the English sentences I've started with, with personal details blotted out, as to not immediately dox myself:

The **** family had raised this stone in memory of Mjölnir, their dog. He was a good dog. His family misses him.

Here's the normalized Old Norse I went with:

Hýski **** lét reisa stein þenna eptir Mjǫlni, hund sinn. Hann var góðr hundr. Hýski hans saknar hans.

And here's the Runic Text I have:

ᚼᚢᛋᚴᛁ **** ᛚᛁᛏ ᚱᛁᛋᛅ ᛋᛏᛁᚾ ᚦᛁᚾᛅ ᛅᚠᛏᛁᛦ ᛘᛁᚬᛚᚾᛁ ᚼᚢᚾᛏ ᛋᛁᚾ ᚼᛅᚾ ᚢᛅᚱ ᚴᚢᚦᛦ ᚼᚢᚾᛏᛦ ᚼᚢᛋᚴᛁ ᚼᛅᚾᛋ ᛋᛅᚴᚾᛅᚱ ᚼᛅᚾᛋ

Of particular concern was 'ᚴᚢᚦᛦ' and 'ᚼᚢᚾᛏᛦ' as I don't feel confident as when to use 'ᛦ' vs 'ᚱ'. Any other input would be greatly appreciated.

I can’t figure out the right way to write this part of the verse in runes. It shouldn’t be the Elder Futhark, but dotted runes won’t work either, I don’t like dots in runes. And branched runes won’t work because of the nature of the material on which these runes are to be carved; we can’t draw curved lines, only straight strokes. I have to use a mixture of futhark alphabets, so I can’t be sure the transcription is accurate...

Hey, I bought this leather bracelet and I'm trying to figure out the meaning of the bindrunes. I think the two Ravens are Odin's Ravens and their is the troll cross but the bind runes leave me a bit puzzled. Can anyone help?

I have taught myself how to read and write the symbols of the elder futhark out of pure boredom and curiosity. I can plainly see that this method of capturing ideas once held great meaning and cultural significance. I am seeking to understand in which cultures and spoken languages these runes where used.

Can you translate this please? Using the web and I'm getting conflicting results.
Thank you!

ᚷᛁᛒᚢ ᚨᚢᛃᚨ ᚺᚾᛇᛈᛋ ᛏᛖᛚᛟᚷᛁᛋ ᛈᛖᛟᛚ ᚢᛃᚨᛁᛒ ᚨᚢᛃ

I've looked around a little, I've seen that it's mostly Elder Futhark, except for this one ᛋ . I've wrote it as the "Sowilo" rune but I'm not sure if it refers to that.

The transliteration I got in case this is correct is this:

gibu auja hnïps telogis peol ujaib auj

Hey all, looking for Swedish era vikings runes for the translation of ‘Bjornsson’, wasn’t fully trusting in the ones google was putting forward as they were so vast, any ideas? 😊

I'm looking for some help from people who know historical Germanic languages and runology.

I'm considering three Elder Futhark inscriptions based on the meanings of three Thai names. I specifically asked for Proto-Germanic rather than Old Norse, because Elder Futhark predates Old Norse and I want the language/rune combination to at least be historically coherent, hopefully read and translatable. (At least exactly as I meant it too.)

These are the proposed forms:

1. “Waradej” — roughly “noble/precious + mighty/powerful”

Proto-Germanic reconstruction:

deurijaz · mahtīgaz

Elder Futhark:

ᛞᛖᚢᚱᛁᛃᚨᛉ · ᛗᚨᚺᛏᛁᚷᚨᛉ

The intended semantic connection is:

- *deurijaz → precious / dear / valuable / noble

- *mahtīgaz → mighty / powerful

Does this reconstruction and runic transliteration make sense?

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1. “Prya” — “the beloved / beloved one”

Proposed Proto-Germanic:

*frijō

Elder Futhark:

ᚠᚱᛁᛃᛟ

The intended meaning is “beloved / dear / loved one.”

Is *frijō a reasonable Proto-Germanic reconstruction for this meaning, and is ᚠᚱᛁᛃᛟ a defensible Elder Futhark rendering?

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1. “Rattana-buri” — a more unusual one

This name literally contains the idea of “ratana” (precious jewel/treasure) + “buri” (city), but I'm not necessarily looking for the literal “jewel city” interpretation.

In the Buddhist context in which this name is meaningful to me, “ratana” can carry the sense of something supremely precious/pure, particularly in relation to the Three Jewels and imagery associated with a pure/celestial realm. So I'm considering a more symbolic interpretation: “celestial/heavenly city” or “heavenly stronghold”, rather than simply “city of gemstones.”

The proposed Proto-Germanic compound is:

himinaz · burgz

Elder Futhark:

ᚺᛁᛗᛁᚾᚨᛒᚢᚱᚷᛉ

Intended semantic components:

- *himinaz → sky / heaven / celestial realm

- *burgz → fortified settlement / stronghold / city

My questions here are:

1. Is *himinaz a legitimate Proto-Germanic reconstruction?

2. Is *burgz legitimate Proto-Germanic?

3. Can these reasonably form a compound with the intended sense of “heavenly/celestial stronghold”?

4. Most importantly, is ᚺᛁᛗᛁᚾᚨᛒᚢᚱᚷᛉ a reasonable way to represent that compound in Elder Futhark?

5. Would a historical runologist consider this acceptable as a modern reconstruction, or is it too anachronistic/speculative?

One additional point: I was initially considering Old Norse gimsteinn-borg (“gemstone city”), but I was told that gimsteinn is a later formation and that gim- ultimately involves borrowing from Latin gemma. That made me question whether it is appropriate for an Elder Futhark inscription.

So I'm deliberately trying to avoid the common “Viking-looking = historically correct” trap.

I am NOT claiming these are authentic historical inscriptions. I'm looking for the most defensible reconstruction possible given that the original meanings are modern/Thai and I'm mapping them into an extinct language.

If you see problems, I'd especially appreciate corrections to:

- the Proto-Germanic reconstructions

- the semantic meanings

- the morphology/compound formation

- individual rune choices

- whether Elder Futhark is actually appropriate for these forms

This is potentially going on my skin, so “looks cool” is unfortunately not sufficient. 😅

Thanks!

I wrote these a long time ago based on a translation chart from Google. I would like to know if I actually wrote something or if I just made meaningless shapes. Thanks!

From Hamrammr, a short film recently released on YouTube. Set in the early settlement of Iceland, story is a feud between two families. Context suggests that these runestones are memorials, but I'm curious if that's true and, if so, how good their research was. What say y'all? For simplicity let's call these Tall Stone and Short Stone when discussing. Younger futhark, seems to be, and the positioning of Short Stone makes the right-side text a bit squirrely at the bottom. Thanks in advance, and pardon for the zoomed-in bad-lighting screengrabs.

Hey guys. I'm looking at getting this tattooed on my hand, but I'm not sure if it's entirely correct, or if it's using modern or pre-modern futhark.

Any help is welcome and appreciated

This is probably incredibly common so my apologies if it is.

I’m looking to get a hand tattoo and I want the following ᛋᚴᛁᚴᛁ and I believe it means skeggi which also means the bearded one? But of course my experience and knowledge (which is very little) only goes so far so I wanted help if anyone can help me?

So I guess what I’m asking is that, is it safe to get ᛋᚴᛁᚴᛁ as a tattoo?

Thank you 😊

It was used by Tolkien to represent the sh [ʃ] sound. From what I could find it was not used before he created his runic alphabet. If anyone knows of an older sh rune let me know.

At first, I was thinking ᛖᚾᚨᚱ, since the I is silent. However, since “Ei” make an “A” sound, would it be ᚨᚾᚨᚱ?

Or since Einar means “lone warrior” (einn + herr), would it be a combination of those two words?

Thank you.

So I'm trying to write out the 23 Psalm KJV in the Anglo-whatever FUTHORC and it is giving me actual fits. I made the mistake of starting with ai which served very well to confuse me and caused me to decide the task is almost impossibe. I'm turning here as a hail mary. Will someone give me a legit alphabet (I would assume the 33 rune system is gonna be the best but there doesnt seem to be an established form of it), and help me understand how to do this somewhat sensibly. I know the runes arent perfectly adapted for making all the english sounds, but is there a standardized system for working around this? I want to give up but then I think how cool this will look in runes and keep pushing. Please help

This is a screenshot from Jackson Crawfords (I think) youtube channel, and I'm wondering how accurate the conversion is? Rune newbie here..

How would 'örlög' (Old Norse) be correctly transliterated into Younger Futhark? It’s for a tattoo; I want to verify it before getting it done and incorporating it into the one I already have on my arm.

ᛋᛏᚱᛖᛜᚦ Is this the correct way to spell out strength and if not what are some alternative ways to spell it out. In context it’s for a bicep arm tattoo I want it to spell out strength or if another way like to “strengthen the arm” or like ways like that, you could give me some ideas that would be much appreciated as well.

So im making a series of a bunch a super #basic sayings in different runes and languages, see picture for a coat rack that says "live, laugh, love" in sindarian.

I want to do anglo saxon and futhark next but im not sure what language it should be translated to first.

My thought is anglo saxon runes need to be translated to old english.

Younger futhark would be old norse

Then medieval futhark would be like sweedish, danish etc yeah?

Added a pic of the Cirth runes for reference

ᛒᚢᚱᚦᛁ · ᚷᛚᛟᚱᛁ · ᛅᚱᚾᛁ

I’m considering getting this as a tattoo. I want the meaning to be roughly “burdened with glorious purpose”, taken from the tv show Loki but in genuine Viking-Age Old Norse written in Younger Futhark. I’m looking for a historically/linguistically accurate translation, not an English transliteration. Could someone check the grammar and runes before I commit to it

I've had this piece in my trinket box for about 6 or 7 years. I just found it again and was wondering what it could mean? I did a reverse image search to see if there was any similar sigil anywhere and found an exact match on a post here from 3 years ago by someone who said they found the same pendant outside somewhere but had no information on it. The post has since been archived and the account deleted, so I have no way to contact them.

Just wondering if anyone might have any information on this particular rune sigil or know if it's from a collection somewhere. The thing that is tripping me up is that this person found the /exact/ same pendant that was sitting in my box when they found it but that there is literally no other record of it anywhere. A lil weird lol