This represents the name of the god Yngvi, which may have been the original name of Freyr. 'NG' as in rowi(ng) has it's own, single symbol in runic, Ingwaz. The sound would be something like the 'Y' in (y)ear. We use the letter 'J' or the rune 'Jera' to represent 'J' and 'Y'. For words with an alternative 'C' sound like ra(c)e or (c)ease, it may be more accurate to substitute 'S' for 'C' in your translation. It may also have been used for a 'CH' sound. Counting 24 characters and being surprisingly uniform, it is named after the first six characters in the alphabet (f-u- (th)-a. For simplicity we use the letter Kaunan to represent all modern 'C' letter translations. Elder Futhark (also Elder Fuark being the 'th' sound in English 'thin' or older Fuark/Futhark) is the earliest classified runic script and was used until c. For example the 'K' in (k)art or the 'C' in (c)art. The letter 'C' in Elder Futhark is the same as 'K'. We are by no means experts in runic translation but through research we have tried to make the most accurate translation model possible! Our translation alogrithm makes some changes to better match the correct runes for modern sounds. Runes aren’t just for divination and can also be used for jewelry or carved into talismans for a magical goal. That is because runes independently influenced anglo-saxon letters and were also originally derived from old Italic and Greek alphabets. Elder Futhark Norse Runes Inscription Uses. You will notice many letters are very similar to modern english. Later rune alphabets exist using the Younger Futhark and Anglo-Saxon Futhark alphabets. It can commonly be found on inscribed items made by the northern Germanic tribes between the 2nd and 8th centuries. We use the original Elder Futhark alphabet, also known as Older Futhark or Germanic Futhark which is the oldest form of written runes. Is a good approximation of the sounds usings the original runic letters. Although there are some differencesīetween the sounds made by the letters and the way they are combined in each language, hopefully our tool Our translation tool allows you to make rune symbol combinations which would sound similar to
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