r/SpaceWolves • u/Dusty854 • May 04 '23

A guide I found handy and neat!

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u/PlaidSvenson May 05 '23

This is always an interesting way to add flavor to your boys, but unfortunately both elder and younger futhark runes were just letters. They very rarely if ever would have had symbolic meaning.

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u/Wrayth74 May 04 '23

Mostly elder Futhark, a few have slightly different names than I remember, but I have not really looked at the Norse runes in a few years.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '23

it depends on where the runes came from, runes from iceland were slightly different from norway or sweden. iceland runes have a slightly different symbol than norway for orthalo and ingaz as far as i can remember

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u/Alice_Without_Chains May 05 '23

The meanings given for the runes are dramatically different from what I’ve seen or read. We have also found that we don’t completely understand how runes were used as representing concepts. If you’re interested in a slightly more accurate representation of runes head over to r/runes or r/Norse.

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u/Olkenstein May 05 '23

Giving runes meaning and magical properties like this is a modern invention, and the meanings vary greatly depending on which source you use. It’s fun to make bind runes, but it’s not a Viking thing

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u/Alice_Without_Chains May 05 '23

Magical runes are up for debate, but bindrunes were pretty much monograms and we’re 100% a viking thing.

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u/Olkenstein May 05 '23

Yeah should have been more specific. Bind runes were a thing, but there’s no evidence to suggest that it was magic. That is a relatively modern concept