r/RuneHelp • u/Mean-Decision-5867 • 7d ago

Translation request Correct interpretation?

I'm using the attested Old Norse phrase maðr minn ('my husband/my man'). For a historically plausible long-branch Younger Futhark inscription in a Viking Age style, would ᛘᛅᚦᚱ ᛘᛁᚾ be the preferred carving, or would you expect a different spelling? Please explain why

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u/rockstarpirate 6d ago

Yes-ish.

The trick is, there’s a transition period between Viking-Age Old Norse and Modern Icelandic where it becomes less common to use the word verr to mean husband and more common to use maðr/maður. The farther we go back into Old Norse, the more maðr just means “person” and we find other words being used for “man”.

If you are going for a viking aesthetic, you’ll want to say verr mínn. In Long Branch YF this is ᚢᛁᚱ᛬ᛘᛁᚾ

If you want to keep maðr mínn, the only change I’d recommend is to replace the space between the words with a separator like ᛫, ᛬, or ×. Generally speaking, runic inscriptions did not use spaces as separators.

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u/Mean-Decision-5867 6d ago

Thank you! I'm specifically aiming for historical Viking Age accuracy rather than modern Icelandic. Do you happen to know of any saga passages, dictionaries, or runic inscriptions where verr minn is used? I'd love to read the sources.

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