Rune expert needed.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:54 am

I need a guy who knows his runes.
-V

Mord · Post by **Mord** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:14 am

I am hardly an expert, Vitus, but I know where to look. R.I. Page's book (cleverly entitled "Runes") is probably your best bet. What are you trying to do?

Mord.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:18 am

I want a translation from English to Rune, or as close as one can get. PM coming, Mord.

Ingvarr · Post by **Ingvarr** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:24 am

Do you want english words written with runes or do you want something translated into Old Norse in runes?

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:28 am

Uh, English if possible. I have an idea.

Agnarr · Post by **Agnarr** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:51 am

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:Uh, English if possible. I have an idea.

just do a search, there are a few sites that do a side by side. makes it easy. if you cant figure it out i will do it for you.

Agnarr · Post by **Agnarr** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:21 pm

http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/write_in_runes.html

http://www.runes.info/pieces/runepiece07.htm

Hope those help.

Bleddyn De Caldicot · Post by **Bleddyn De Caldicot** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:25 pm

Mord wrote:I am hardly an expert, Vitus, but I know where to look. R.I. Page's book (cleverly entitled "Runes") is probably your best bet. What are you trying to do?

Mord.

I second R.I. Page, was a smart man.

AriAnson · Post by **AriAnson** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:36 pm

The wikipedia page on runes are pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futhark

Halfdan · Post by **Halfdan** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:28 pm

I have had two grad-level classes on Old English and can translate a passage from ME to OE and then into Runes. It could be a week or longer before I could give you a really accurate translation.

Francisco Lopez de Leon · Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:31 pm

Sir Vitus:
I write as easily in English using the Elder Futhark as I do using the Roman alphabet. PM me what you want transcribed, and your email. I'll send you the transcription via scanned .pdf

Vladimir · Post by **Vladimir** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:23 pm

If you want a cheap, easy cheat you can download the futhark font.

Grimr Hvitulfsson Ulfhamr · Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:39 am

Runic alphabet was not a generic thing. You also need to know which period and which area.

E.g. Vikings did not use the so-called Elder Futhark but a younger 16-character version. And even then they had a couple of variations plus later additions.

If you use English or especially OE I would suggest using Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, which has 26-33 characters depending on the source. Afaik OLd English was written with these runes.

GrimR

Ingvarr · Post by **Ingvarr** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:07 am

The Anglo-Saxon futhark is later than the viking age.

Grimr Hvitulfsson Ulfhamr · Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:01 pm

Ingvarr wrote:The Anglo-Saxon futhark is later than the viking age.

How so? I believe they were already in use much earlier and enjoyed a relatively long lifespan.

E.g. the so-called Franks casket (currently in British Museum) is from 8th century and it has Old English in Anglo Saxon runes.

GrimR

Ingvarr · Post by **Ingvarr** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:30 pm

You may be right, I'll have to look into it some more. I was under the impression that the AS futhark post-dated the VA in quite a few of its unique runes. I may be misremembering.

Grimr Hvitulfsson Ulfhamr · Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:46 pm

They were used to write Old English, which was spoken c. 5th to 11th c.

GrimR

Hrolfr · Post by **Hrolfr** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:42 am

PMed you