ᛦ
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Elder Futhark ᛉ. The rune was flipped upside down around the 400s-500s, as can be seen on the inscription of the Järsberg Runestone.
Letter[edit]
ᛦ
- A letter of the Younger Futhark, Yr (“yew”), representing /r/ and transliterated as ʀ.
Coordinate terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Algiz § Younger Futhark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the interpretation as Todesrune (“death rune”).
Symbol[edit]
ᛦ
Usage notes[edit]
The rune is part of the Armanen runes,[1] which are based on the Younger Futhark. The visual representation of the rune in the original publication is closer to ⟨ᛣ⟩, with straight arms to mirror ⟨ᛉ⟩, but this denotes a different letter, Old English calc /k/, and not yr. There is currently no specific codepoint in Unicode for straight-armed yr as opposed to curved-armed yr, so both are conventionally encoded as ⟨ᛦ⟩.
References[edit]
- ^ Guido von List (1908) Das Geheimnis der Runen, published 1938, page 19