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Transliteration: B
Original Meaning: Birch
Keywords: Fertility, New growth, Child, Youth
Old Icelandic | English |
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Bjarkan er laufgat lim ok lítit tré ok ungsamligr viðr. abies buðlungr. |
Birch is a leafy twig and little tree and fresh young shrub. |
Anglo-Saxon | English |
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Beorc byþ bleda leas, bereþ efne sƿa ðeah tanas butan tudder, biþ on telgum ƿlitig, heah on helme hrysted fægere, geloden leafum, lyfte getenge. |
The poplar bears no fruit; yet without seed it brings forth suckers, for it is generated from its leaves. Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned its lofty crown which reaches to the skies. |
Transliteration: Z
Original Meaning: (Unknown). Possibly "Elk"
Keywords: Protection, defense, guarded
No known Rune poem exists for Algiz in Nordic languages
Anglo-Saxon | English |
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Eolh-secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme, blode breneð beorna gehwylcne ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeþ. |
The Elk-sedge is usually found in marshes, growing in the water. It wounds severely, staining with blood any man who makes a grab at it. |
Transliteration: Þ (Th)
Original Meaning: Giant
Keywords: Door, or gateway, to seeing the future. Seeking the truth. Protection, Menstral Cycle, Giving Birth
Old Icelandic | English |
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Þurs er kvenna kvöl ok kletta búi ok varðrúnar verr. |
Thurs ("Giant") is woman's pain and cliff-dweller and husband of a giantess. |
Anglo-Saxon | English |
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Ðorn byþ ðearle scearp; ðegna gehƿylcum anfeng ys yfyl, ungemetum reþe manna gehƿelcum, ðe him mid resteð. |
The thorn is very sharp, an evil thing for any knight to touch, uncommonly severe on all who sit among them. |
Transliteration: i
Original Meaning: Ice
Keywords: Blocked, static, suspended, frozen, patience required
Old Icelandic | English |
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Íss er árbörkr ok unnar þak ok feigra manna fár. glacies jöfurr. |
Ice is bark of rivers and roof of the wave and destruction of the doomed. |
Anglo-Saxon | English |
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Is byþ oferceald, ungemetum slidor, glisnaþ glæshluttur gimmum gelicust, flor forste geƿoruht, fæger ansyne. |
Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery; it glistens as clear as glass and most like to gems; it is a floor wrought by the frost, fair to look upon. |
Transliteration: S
Original Meaning: Sun
Keywords: Light, warmth, success, growth, summer, advancement, fire
Old Icelandic | English |
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Sól er skýja skjöldr ok skínandi röðull ok ísa aldrtregi rota siklingr. |
Sun is the shield of the clouds and shining ray and destroyer of ice. |
Anglo-Saxon | English |
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Sigel semannum symble biþ on hihte, ðonne hi hine feriaþ ofer fisces beþ, oþ hi brimhengest bringeþ to lande. |
The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers when they journey away over the fishes' bath, until the courser of the deep bears them to land. |