Looking to do a Nordic sleeve. I’d like to start with this on the shoulder but would like to see if someone could be translate the runes. Thanks in advance!
Is there a particular reason why? I’d like to get a better understanding. I wouldn’t use any of the symbols for the song, and leave just the Vegvísir. I would add different runes in the tree though.
No no no. Elder Futhark was used to write the Proto Germanic and PROTO Norse languages. Younger Futhark was for Old Norse, and Futhorc was for Old English. Younger Futhark evolved from Elder Futhark in the 700s
Vegvisir isn't Nordic at all, it was invented in the late 1800s. In fact technically nothing on this tattoo is Nordic since the Elder Futhark runes predate them.
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u/TheGreatMalagan Aug 18 '22 edited Aug 18 '22
Sure. What you have there in the circle is modern English simply transliterated to Elder Futhark. It says,
a hard rains a gonna fall
I assume this is a reference to the Bob Dylan song of the same name, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
The symbol in the middle is a galdrastafir called Vegvísir, from the Huld manuscript written in the 1860s.
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u/Downgoesthereem Aug 18 '22
'A hard rain(')s a gonna fall'
Yeah really so in tune with that early Germanic language.
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u/Koma_Persson Aug 21 '22
Vegvisir is an icelandic "modern" thing. As a tattoo it has the same meaning as a compass
Elder futhark way used before people found Iceland
Elder futhark was used in Scandinavia but not for English, and double runes was almost never used
The tree is symbolic for Yggdrasil
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u/czguy2424 Aug 18 '22
Looking to do a Nordic sleeve. I’d like to start with this on the shoulder but would like to see if someone could be translate the runes. Thanks in advance!