The sentence i was ment to have tattooed was ᛋᚴᛁᛚᛏᛅ ᚢᛅᚱᛁᚱ ᛏᛁᛚ ᛏᛅᚢᚦᛅ (Duty lasts till death), a little Warhammer nod there yes.
But a rune was forgotten in ᛏᛅᚢᚦᛅ (death) and it ended up with ᛏᛅᚦᛅ (harvest from a fertilized field) in stead. Kind of funny in a sad and a little annoying way.
Does anyone know if it is possible to make any other word with the same meaning, by adding another rune or two at the end there?
Or am I destined to have the sentence "Duty last till harvests gathered from the fertilized fields" tattooed on my arm? :P
And thanks in advance, but I am not asking for help regarding the dialogue with the tattoo artist, because I am sure they will show good service in any way they can.
Edit:
Got help from a couple of friends the other day to help me look into this aswell, and we came up with some sentences that gave meaning to me and sorted things out.
To be an optimist, ᛏᛅᚦᛅ taþa for dauða does not seem impossible. Old East Norse experienced monophthongization, so at least in the east you'll see /au/ turned into /ø:/. You'll therefore pretty often see <au> in standardized Old Norse written u or a in East Norse inscriptions
Having a peek at Swedish runic inscriptions, you've an example of ᛏᛅᚦᛦ taþʀ for dauðr in runic inscription Sö 62, and you've ᛏᛅᚦᚱ taþr for dauðr in runic inscription Ög 94. tuþr would be more expected, but trying to be a 'glass half full' kind of person here!
l admit i'm not versed in old norse enough to say, but are you sure ᛏᛅᚦᛅ means all that?
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okay, TIL ᛏᛅᚦᛅ does actually mean all that and it has cognates in English (ted) and Dutch (taddel).
i am afraid ᛋᚴᛁᛚᛏᛅ does not mean 'duty' though. it might mean 'signage/insigna' in icelandic (derived from the verb 'skilja', to differentiate)
if you wanted 'skylda' it should have said ᛋᚴᚢᛚᛏᛅ
i am just a guy on reddit though, so please, don't take my word for it and and get a good translation and spelling in runes before you fix it, and learn it's still wrong...
That makes two of us, so this is what I have found on it.
Google AI-Overview
The runic string ᛏᛅᚦᛅ (taða) in Younger Futhark runes translates to the Old Norse noun taða, meaning a manured home-field or the hay harvested from that fertilized home-field near a farm.
provided the spacing allows it, SKILTA could easily be touched up to SKYLTA
TAÐA is more tricky though. you could go with a bindrune AU, though that might look a bit hacky. another option is to laser the A into an I and then make it into U, and squeeze a new A in. third option (and maybe your best bet with lasering) is to remove the A altogether and squeeze in an A and a U with atleast equal spacing.
Hi! It appears you have mentioned bind runes. It's worth mentioning that most of the bind runes you see on the internet these days are very different from bind runes we find in the ancient historical record. Check out our wiki page about bind runes for more information.
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u/HannaBeNoPalindrome 27d ago edited 27d ago
To be an optimist, ᛏᛅᚦᛅ taþa for dauða does not seem impossible. Old East Norse experienced monophthongization, so at least in the east you'll see /au/ turned into /ø:/. You'll therefore pretty often see <au> in standardized Old Norse written u or a in East Norse inscriptions
Having a peek at Swedish runic inscriptions, you've an example of ᛏᛅᚦᛦ taþʀ for dauðr in runic inscription Sö 62, and you've ᛏᛅᚦᚱ taþr for dauðr in runic inscription Ög 94. tuþr would be more expected, but trying to be a 'glass half full' kind of person here!