Page, University of California Press/British Museum, 1989, ISBN 4-4Ĭonvert English text to Danish Long-Branch Younger Futhark runesĮnter text in the box below then click on the 'Convert' button to see the closest Younger Futhark rune equivalentįUTHARK: SHORT-TWIG converts English letters to Our runic reference is Runes: Reading the Past, R. It can convert and display over 1,000 runes.ĭoes not translate or use Old Norse at all. Click the 'Convert' button to build the rune sequence. It allows corrections, cursor repositioning andĬopy/pasting into the entry textbox.

It converts all non-letter characters (including numerals!) to blanks.

It will convert 'th' to its appropriate single rune. FUTHARK converts anyĬombination of upper and lower case English letters, since 'case' didn't apply to runes. Letter-to-rune and rune-to-letter mapping. With a single English letter, even though some runes were used to represent multiple letters. Necessarily, it also associates each rune Obviously this is a compromise since there were many variations used before and during the Viking Age. It transliterates the English language text you enter to the Viking Age's Younger Futhark, specifically the Danish 'long-branch' rune set. The 'sje' sound, similar to the English 'she'.įUTHARK converts English letters to runes or runes to English letters. Thurs (“giant”), similar in sound to the English 'th' as in 'the' Younger Futhark runes or convert Younger Futhark runes to English 'short-twig' Futhark and the more common Danish 'long-branch'įuthark shown below. Of the Younger Futhark, one of which was the Swedo-Norwegian, or TheĢ4 runes of the Anglo-Saxon, or Elder, Futhark had been By the Viking Age in Scandinavia the 'Younger' Futhark, theĪlphabet of the Old Norse language, included only 16 runes.

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