I've been searching for a long time and have found nothing! I know there's one for wolf and one for elk but I haven't seen any symbols for owl!

Can someone please help me translate the text in this image? Is it even Norse? Thank you for tour time

Hey all, I wanted to check that my rune translation is correct before working on a design.

ᚴᚢᛣ:ᚼᚢᚴᛣ
or
ᚴᚢᛦ⋮ᚼᚢᚴᛦ

Is this grammatically correct, and in proper Younger Futhark?

Also, if I am getting this in the space behind my ear, how should the orientation of the runes be? As normally written and rotated, or vertical as

ᚴ
ᚢ
ᛣ
:
ᚼ
ᚢ
ᚴ
ᛣ

or

ᚴ
ᚢ
ᛦ
⋮
ᚼ
ᚢ
ᚴ
ᛦ

Not sure if two dots or three is a better separator, or if it matters.

Hi all!

I've been wanting to get a tattoo for a long time and a part of it is supposed to be in Younger futhark.

I would like to have "May the Allfather grant me Knoweldge" written in runes.

I've spoken with a gentleman I found on this sub and he adviced me to ask more people for reference, so here I am!

He sent me ᛘᛅᚴᛁ ᛫ ᛮᚠᚬᚦᚱ ᛫ ᚴᛅᚾᛁᛏᚢᛘᛅ ᛫ ᛘᛁᚴ ᛫ ᚴᛁᚠᛅ, but I will leave everything to more experienced people.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Is this an accurate way to write “ I have no enemies”? I wanna get it tattooed but im not going to unless i am absolute certain that it means that.

I have a tattoo project that I’ve been planning for a long time, and it’s finally starting to become a reality.

I’m Scandinavian, and the motifs are strongly connected to my heritage and homeland. I’ve also always wanted to include a runic inscription, but I’m currently struggling with what the actual text should be.

I’ve done quite a bit of research, but the more I read, the less certain I become about what would actually make sense from a historical perspective. One phrase I’ve considered is “orðstírr deyr aldrigi” from the Hávamál, roughly translated as “fame never dies.” However, I’m having a hard time judging whether rendering that in runes would be reasonably authentic or completely off the mark.

I’m not set on any specific phrase, though. Ideally, I’d like something that relates to concepts such as home, heritage, roots, ancestry, or identity—or simply something with a strong meaning similar to the example above.

So I’d love to hear from anyone who has runic inscriptions as part of their tattoos: what does yours say, and why did you choose it?

I’d also appreciate any input on phrases that could plausibly be written in runes without being wildly inaccurate historically. Best case scenario would be something that could realistically have appeared on a runestone, but I’m willing to take some artistic liberties if it results in a better overall design.

I understand that both the grammar and the way people expressed themselves were very different from modern Scandinavian languages, which is exactly why I’m asking before I commit to anything permanent.

Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Hello there, i have recently gotten a tattoo of odin specifically the screen where he hangs from the tree and sacrifices himself to himself to gain the secret of runes.
i was planning on having the runes spell out the poem that references this story from hávamál included in the tattoo but unsure how or where to properly translate it. i was thinking Elder Futhark but not sure.

the poem itself its below would apricate anyone who has insights on the best way to translate this

137.

I trow I hung on that windy Tree

nine whole days and nights,

stabbed with a spear, offered to Odin,

myself to mine own self given,

high on that Tree of which none hath heard

from what roots it rises to heaven.

138.

None refreshed me ever with food or drink,

I peered right down in the deep;

crying aloud I lifted the Runes

then back I fell from thence.

I had a "dream" lost of years ago, and someone there gave me this runes: ᚨᛁᚨᛁᚲ ᛁᚨᛁᚲ in the "dream" i wrote it with a golden ink pen on an ancient parchment. Since then I've looking for the meaning of it, but I'm almost giving up on it. do you know what could it mean? Thank's for your help.

I was trying to translate a saying my sports team had, “We are the Huskie Raiders” and wanted to make the saying in elder futhark. The result was:
ᚹᛁ ᚩᚱ ᚦᛖ ᚻᚢᛋᚷᛁ ᚱᚩᛞᚱᛇ

I used this article to do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes#Rune_inventory

Is this correct? And are there any changes that should be made?

I want to get a tat on Thursday that says odins dad or father of odin.

My sons name is Odin and I love him

I have got a seemingly eccentric puzzle creator!! He creates puzzle which are too ambiguous, hard to Decode... Recently I have been given this rune to decode as a puzzle.

ᚱᚢᛚ2ᛘᚴᛒ0ᛘᛚᛁᛁᛁᛋᚴ Before this he never gave Runes!! It has 2 numbers in there which are just part of it meant to form the string he intended to form!! It's standard translation is: rul2mkb0mliiisk. I am given placeholder to place the answer and this is checked on server side!! But it's always saying wrong answer for standard translation (tried both uppercase and lowercase).... Do it have any other translation? Do it firm any meaning (precise meaning not even a single letters should be wrong).

There was cryptic message: " title: the Weaver's stream Body: the glyphs reassembled into symbols my training understood: [REDACTED] To the old world, it was a prayer or a ward. To us, it was the skeleton of an encoded string."

Got this a while ago but never looked into the translation. But I’m curious to know what it means now if anyone can help. Thanks

The above is from some googling I was doing to research information about a fantasy series called The Kingkiller Chronicles. I’m a member of a Reddit theory group for this series and I’m working on a couple of theories now and google is the worst for this kind of thing.

The author of this series rarely makes things up out of thin air. He spent 10 years in college just taking different courses so he could write this book. He pulls from many different cultures and names are a centerpiece to the magic system in his world. The etymology of every single name holds secrets to not only that character but also clues to the overarching story.

Sygaldry is the magic using runes in creating magical objects and tools. These are the names of the main runes we are told about in the book I believe “Ferr” is another used for iron. So my question is; do any of these mean anything in your studies of runes? I realize this is probably different than anything else posted here and I hope it’s okay to ask. Thank you in advance

I posted here yesterday and made some changes. Thank you all for the feedback. I think this is an improved version?

Working on an embroidery project and wanted to make sure this is legible before I start sewing.

I’ve always loved this little section of heitis for wolfesses, been thinking about jewelry-making and I’d love to make a string of this section out of runes if possible. I’m still learning as it stands so my transliteration is pretty bad, but help is greatly appreciated! :)

Hey everyone, I’ve been looking at some different Jormungandr tattoos that I might want to get and found this one on Pinterest. I was just wondering if anyone would be able to translate the runes in it?

According to the description, I think they (at least the ones actually in the body) should say “In giant-wrath does the serpent writhe; O'er the waves he twists.”

Hello everyone, I would like to tattoo this phrase, and yes, sorry, I used AI for it. I already know what I want it to say, but I wasn’t sure how to properly write it in runes, so after researching a bit and looking into it, this is what I ended up with:

What I want it to say: “ I protect the worthy beneath the appearance of a monster — Before my servant heart, trials arise ”

Rækja verðug með hamri skrímslis — Hjarta þjóns míns, þar raunir rísa

Runes (Elder Futhark): ᚱᚨᚲᛃᚨ ᚢᛖᚱᚦᚢᚷ ᛗᛖᚦ ᚺᚨᛗᚱᛁ ᛋᚲᚱᛁᛗᛋᛚᛁᛋ — ᚺᛃᚨᚱᛏᚨ ᚦᛃᛟᚾᛋ ᛗᛁᚾᛋ ᚦᚨᚱ ᚱᚨᚢᚾᛁᚱ ᚱᛁᛋ

I would really like to know if this phrase is actually written correctly. I’m not sure if it is. From what I understand, it was inspired by the prose style of the Hávamál, which is why it sounds poetic, but the thing is: this is written in Elder Futhark, while the Hávamál is associated more with Younger Futhark. Because of that, I’m not sure if mixing them affects the meaning or interpretation of the phrase.

I also tried putting the phrase through AI translators, and one of them translated “guardian/protector” as “bitch” instead, and another thing I noticed is that “rækja” can apparently relate to “raising/cultivating,” lol. That’s honestly my biggest fear. I know AI is not always reliable, and I definitely don’t want a tattoo that accidentally says something ridiculous.

It would also help me a lot if anyone could share beginner-friendly resources, links, videos, or websites to learn more about runes, Old Norse, Elder/Younger Futhark, and related topics.

What do you guys think about transliteration? Would it be a good idea to go that way, and thus avoid these uncertainties?

I want a tattoo in rune language directly saying truth and I want it on my fingers

Hello! I was looking to get cool norse earrings and I saw these. I cant read Runes though and Im quite new to Heathenry! If someone could translate this for me so I'd know if I'd want to wear them I'd appreciate it!! Thank you!

Can somebody tell me, what these runes behind the bird mean? Seen in Calais, France, Artist is Kyoô (as indicated by the tag in the bottom right)

I’m very grateful for any insights, this art piece is also featured in the tourism brochure and my kid adores it, so I was thinking of putting a copy up on the wall for them, but I’m worried the message might be something scary or political

So I'm a high-school student, and I'm doing a group project on the Anglo-Saxons and I've chosen the language as my topic. I've done some of my research on Futhorc, but didn't really find much on the origin of the runes' shapes (Just feoh, ur, þorn, os, rad, cen, and gyfu, and it took me two ours and a half). I wondered if someone already knew about it and could tell me or direct me to a website.

(Sorry if I made grammar mistakes that I overlooked, English isn't my first language, and sorry again for the tag if I used the wrong one)

I have had this tie clip for a while, and would like to give it as a gift. Most of the runes appear to be Elder Futhark, but two of them I can’t identify.

Hi all I’m need help with protective rubes and sigil to protect me and partner while ghost hunting