The Names of the Runes (Elder Futhark)
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- A look at the runes of the Elder Futhark and how we can figure out their names.
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One of the oldest runic inscriptions ever found has just been announced in the Norwegian media. Krister Vasshus at the University of Bergen has a welcome break-down of the major points of the find in a Twitter thread that starts at twitter.com/KristerVasshus/status/1615236531689607169 and I have a video on the basic facts and my first impressions of the find at th-cam.com/video/X_m2xcoU9Q0/w-d-xo.html
-I learned and used to like Ehwaz as a 'M' form, more familiated with our alphabetic form of M and its more easier to remember it, that form in that video look like a commun Russian letter form.
-Sowilo, I like it in is ''s'' form, but sadly someone in the 30's made a bad image of this rune.
-Don't know if it true but I also read about that Laguz can also be: Lögr (What do you think of that ?)
-Also just a reminder for the peoples that you could hint them: Kauna is also used not only for ''K'' but also for our ''C and Q'' letters, since C, K and Q sounds similar depending on the words we use. Like if your name is: Celine you could write it: Keline. Queen for exemple can be written: Kueen. Cause' as you made people realised, there's no C and Q letter in Elder Futhark.
Iin your educated opinion how do you suppose the word "heaven" would've been written or translated in elder futhark? and would words have been spoken with the formation of the sounds the runes made? or would they have been made based on the combinations of runes and their meanings to mean something else? bcause i know it would be a mistake to directly try and translate English to the runes. it wouldn't mean the same thing.
Dr. Jackson I have a question. Could elder futhark, be related to the enochian language in anyway?
When you realize that Odin gave an eye and hanged himself as a sacrifice to learn those runes, and now you can learn them from a good-looking Colorado cowboy on the internet.
Not just to learn those runes, he earned himself more knowledge than that
WHHAAT!!!
Stonks
It's a funny reply. 😄
However, from my understanding he was given the secrets and powers of the runes. So, not just the knowledge. Because of his worthiness, Odin basically was given power to "create" the runes. So to speak, and shared some of that knowledge with humans. 🖤
It's a funny reply. 😄
However, from my understanding he was given the secrets and powers of the runes. So, not just the knowledge. Because of his worthiness, Odin basically was given power to "create" the runes. So to speak, and shared some of that knowledge with humans. 🖤
Thank you nordic cowboy
I think he said he didnt have scand roots but hes legit an amerikan viking manski
I try to give him the name > Ol' Doc Norse©️®️™️.
Howdy gorgeous
Ditto !!
nordic with name Crawford
, i dont hinks so . Crawford is so anglosaxon
I would never guess in a million years that I would be learning about runes from a cowboy
🤣😅😆😂
if a cowboy knew razor disposables existed in this age they'd smash all their cash on the whole asile. hes pretty good on this stuff though. i wonder what generation his learning curve is. very much like mine.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@blakeanderson5064generation learning curve?
@@avxy3632 i think thats a good way to put it... stigmas of evolving technologies,we evolved and learned in one direction but now we can learn forwards and backwards at the conveniences of our own time. thx avxy
I wish English hadn't dropped Þ.
Þanks for posting this.
I kinda wish English used both Þ and Ð.
I like the differentiation.
we can change þat, after all dictionaries add words created by people, so if we all use þ in our language and more and more people adopt þat, we will eventually end up with that letter
@@AlexeiKremliovsky just reintroduce all runes lol. The latin alphabet is so boring...
@@adrien437 Agreed
"I like your funny words, magic man"
Blessid be
You make the pronounciations seem so easy. It's incredible just watching you talk in Old Norse with such ease.... Have I mentioned how much I appreciate you and your sharing your knowledge with everyone?
I have a complete opposite feeling. Yes, he knows how to pronounce those words but he's trying so hard (too hard actually) to pronounce it right, that it's almost funny. Especially when he's pronouncing words with "R". His thick english accent doesn't help. He knows how to pronounce but with such ease... Not really
@@szerokiusmiech167 that's an American accent, not English.
@@szerokiusmiech167 He's pronouncing it slowly to make it audible for anyone trying to parse it, I thought that was obvious.
👁 second that😊
@@szerokiusmiech167 Doesn't really matter since english is also a Germanic language.
I've been learning and writing in the Elder Futhark since I was 13 over a decade ago. Subbing to your channel to continue my knowledge!
Tori X can u write something into rune to me? I've the text
Tori X hi do you know of any good videos to learn how to read,pronounce it. I am a beginner so i dont know of many sources yet . i will really apreciate it.
Mr. Andersen | bitch stfu
@Mr. Andersen hahaha
This videos is in Polish however you can use translator - he discover the way of creating the runs etc, you can also check his book: th-cam.com/video/SzN_n4SL6Gs/w-d-xo.html
I learned all 24 runes in 4 days (6 at a time) and this video was my go to. Thank you Jackson.
5:55 is when he starts talking about the alphabet and the pronunciations
Amanda Valdorian we need a extended explanation about what are we going to learn. I enjoy a lot this videos
@@moriahhersker what do you mean?
Amanda Valdorian thanks
@@spirittalks5681 you're welcome 😊
@@amandavaldorian some are entirely new on this world, maybe not even searched for the video
Pretend someone else’s hand is holding the whiteboard
Reported as disturbing content. 😜
In the 1920's (on the farmland that now belongs to my aunt, in west Iceland) a tombstone was discovered from the late 17th century (it's currently in her possession). It was very elaborate and had runic inscriptions, which means Icelanders actually used that alphabet for quite a long time!
But it may have been the younger futhark, don't remember it vividly enough.
That's really cool! To answer your last part, Iceland was discovered and settled by the Vikings around 870-930 CE, so it would've been Younger Futhark.
"Ehwaz," the word for horse, sounds an awful lot like the Latin word for horse, "equus." It's interesting to see the Indo-European relationship here.
Swedish slang for horse is actually "quusar".
Very much so!
Old English: Eoh
Latin: Equus
Old Irish: Ech
Spanish: Equino
The Stutterer Greek: eppos
@@elgranlugus7267 Dutch/German: Paard/Pferd haha. Don't know where that came from
‘As in an unpleasant form of precipitation’
Excellent.
I love how the captions on this video cannot at any point handle the word "futhark" and instead give me "food art," "food arc," and "food org."
Autocorrect gremlins also run auto-generated captions, and their primary real function is trickster behavior.
This needs to be used again!
We Odias from India had been writing in an independent Brahmi derivative called Kalinga abugida since the 3rd century, until our royalty went for the present Odia script in the 12th century, which descends from Siddham script, a far relative of Brahmi. There are many temples where it is written in Kalinga abugida, it is still legible but couldn't be read by common people until recently, when many Odias are learning the Kalinga abugida as well to read these old inscriptions. Same with the Tamils and Kannadigas of Southern India. I hope that this script is taught in schools , atleast secular literature like the Sagas are printed in this script and read in language classes( it will be nicer in showing the evolution of your languages) and some signboards should also start featuring this script along with Roman script.
Honestly, we don't have any lessons about the Germanic and Scandinavian history, only Roman history is relevant in schools while talking of Europe and Egypt for Africa, apart from the Sanskrit and Dravidian heritage of India.
(I also messaged this to you on your website, but I don't know if it's better to post it here if you get inundated with messages on your site...)
Dr. Crawford,
I love all your videos. You know so much and I am always pleasantly surprised at the things I learn when I watch you videos.
I recently watched your video on elder futhark runes again, and I came to an interesting hypothesis.
I believe kauna actually means "knowledge".
If true, the Old Icelandic rune poem would say something like:
"Knowledge brings the death of childhood
through suffering and the realization of death."
Throughout Germanic poetry and mythology, knowledge is talked about as a "burning" sensation, so ulcer and torch being used, respectively, to describe the pain of uncomfortable realizations, and the illuminating feeling of introspective realizations, makes sense.
I believe the meaning of "knowledge" would also work for the Old Norwegian and Anglo-Saxon rune poems as well, but those ones are harder for an amateur linguist like myself to translate in the 15 minutes I spent looking up support for my hypothesis (haha). I'll definitely have to spend more time translating the other two to see if it works. But based on the translations I see on Wikipedia, it seems like we could be lighting a new fire in linguistics with this epiphany. (Ok, that's laying it on a little heavy. I'm probably wrong about this because if it's true, it's weird that no one's figured it out yet...)
Here's an important question moving forward: is there a linguistic tie between kauna(n) and kunnan (and modern day words, like the Scottish word ken and the modern German word können)?
I appreciate your time helping me ponder this,
Geoffrey Kuth
Incredible how there’s only one horizontal line in the whole list! And even that, as you said, was sometimes inscribed differently.
Thank you very much for taking the time to record and share this info I really appreciated it
loved this information and delivery. super interested in checking out the other videos.
As always, your videos are awesome, Dr. Crawford.
Just discovered your channel. Thank you very much for the time and effort put into the channel. This is exactly hr information I have been looking for, and presented well.
I just read your edda and it was amazing. I highly recommend your translation!
Your version of the Poetic Edda is simply magnificent. Thank you.
Great job, dude. I’m just getting in to Futhark, and this is a big help. Looking forward to the rest of your videos!
Thanks from France for your videos. Full of quality and accessibility.
This is my favorite youtube channel. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Started learning today and i found this to be the most useful source more than any website so far. Thank you sir i cannot begin to guess where you gained such knowledge.
I've been interested in Norse Mythology for the past couple of days and you popped up :-) thank you! About to binge watch your videos. You're very enticing and knowledgeable.
I have been looking for something like this! Can't wait to watch your other videos. Subbed!
Professor Crawford, I am just recently beginning to learn Norse mythology and also about Runes.
I have always had a deep interest in that culture and their traditions.
Ty for your channel , I'm sure I shall be coming back to learn from you .
I send you love and light .
Thank you so much for making this video. Very helpful!
I absolutely enjoyed listening to your audio of the Peotic Edda. It is fantastic to have a source for these old stories where I am able to actually hear the pronunciations instead of always trying to decide how I think it should be said. Your work is really fantastic for the amateur researcher that has more restricted access to the academic writings on the subject. Thank you so much for your work.
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I really enjoyed this, thank you for the brilliant video
Excellent and helpful information. Thank you.
Best description ever. Thank u!
Thanks. This video more than makes up for the previous one on the same topic.
Thanks Doc! Very informative, enlightening & confusing all bundled into one.
thank you so much
i've been wanting to learn these but never found a good source so thank you very much
Thank you SO much for these videos.
Im learning to read runes this is great will help alot thank you doc
Tusen takk for denne videoen. Det er kjekt å høre andre forteller og beundrer våre forfedres historie.
Thanks for this lecture, it's nice to hear people admire our ancestor's teachings.
your voice is calming to listen to.
Thank god. Some one who isn't a witch dr telling me what runes mean 😆
Lol 😄
Thank Odin!
bold of you to assume he doesn't moonlight as a witch doctor
If it's Wiccan it's nonsense
@@bjrnjordan4374 wiccan is a modern "religion" that basically just takes many older polytheistic beleifs and twists it into some new age nonsense lol
This was great! Thank you!
THANKS FOR HELPING.
CONGRATULATIONS.
EXCELLENT VIDEO.
Very useful and very informative. Thank you.
Excellent piece which indicates how much detective work goes into studying the Dark Ages - it is like archaeology
Thank you so much Dr.
Clear and simple. Thanks so much.
Very useful. Very informative. Thanks!
Thank You very much sir. That was fantastic! What what i found extremally interesting fo me, was your explanation of the *jera rune. Never before i thought about this rune like after video of Yours. For me as a native polish speaker, the translation of the jera rune as describing the harvest period is very converging to the Old Polish "jary" which means "sown in the spring" or "early harvest". From this word (jary) we have "jarzyny" (eng: vegetables), we have also "pszenica jara" (eng. spring wheat). I can see that nordic culture had heavy impact on their neighbours, not only in terms of gods pantheon. Slavic and nordic gods are very similar, just like greek and romans gods pantheon. Just to mention Thor and Perun, which are basically the same. When it coms to everyday life and grammar, i can also see that impact too. Every day something new to learn / relearn. Regars Rafal.
I would pager that the influence might be from Gothic or maybe even Proto-Germanic depending on how far back these borrowings go that is if they're borrowings
Thank you for your work.
Just added your Poetic Edda translation to my reading list. By the way, if I looked at a picture of you and had to guess your name, I feel confident that Jackson Crawford would be in my top five guesses. Not a lot of people look exactly like their name.
I love your country version of havismal in your reading of the Poetic Edda. As a kentucky boy it helps me understand it and remember it easier.
Probably spelled that wrong but you know what I mean 😂
Thank's for this Dr.
Thank you, all of you.
I'm a new subscriber. Thank you so much for making the video.
I need to learn Old Norse and Old English now
Vikings show ?
Me too! These old languages must not be lost! I'm studying to be a linguist, and preservation of languages that are in danger of extinction must be protected.
This videos is in Polish however you can use translator - he discover the way of creating the runs etc, you can also check his book: th-cam.com/video/SzN_n4SL6Gs/w-d-xo.html
@@fardareismai4495 I am a linguist (M.A.). How old are you? Do you already know more than one language?
@@LynxSouth hey! Good to hear from you. I'm nineteen now, I'm only in my second semester at this point, but I am fluent in Dutch (my native language), German and English. I'm also moderately conversational in French and I will start an Italian course soon. I'm also trying to teach myself some Gaelic, it's hard to find courses for that in my area.
Excellent video as always, Dr. Crawford.
I had the privilege of reading some of the (copied) Silver Bible while getting my BA at the University of Uppsala back in the 80s. While Norse/Germanic history is not my area of focus as a historian, I have always been fascinated with the study of the Goths and how much of their Germanic heritage they carried with them throughout their migrations through West and East Europe.
Thank you, Dr. Jackson.
Your face is gorgeous. Also thank you for pronouncing the runes. It can be difficult to guess the pronunciation when looking at the spelling.
Yoshisaurus Rex you may be listening to some good songs that sings the elder and younger Futhark, it will become easy to learn this “alphabet” along the right pronunciation; some good sons: Heilung- In Maidjan and Danheim- Runatal
Greetings from Mexico!
finally some correct pronunciation. THANK YOU!
My boyfriend is Danish,Ice landic and swedish, from arizona . He absolutely loves watching your videos jackson.
Great video sir. Very informative and not convoluted AT ALL. That seems to be a recurring theme in alot of videos about the runes.
I learned to write in elder futhark when I was 6 and I still use it every day 😊😊
So glad to see an academic discussing this popularized era.
Great video Dr. Crawford.
I'm an Albanian from Kosovo, and I was inspired by your video to write an article about the basic color terms in Albanian. I would love to see more videos about basic color terms (be it in Old Norse or other Indo-European languages), the last one is my personal favorite. Have a good day!
Plator Gashi hera e parë që po shoh shqiptar n'youtube.
Kosovo is Serbia
@@josephstalin9357 Serbia is Kosovo
Finally a video that's not bs and actual educative content.
BEAUTIFUL ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thanks liked the video just learning the runes
I have been writing in runes for many years. I learned them from several sources. I didn't notice the E. I love how you pronounce and explain meanings. I have some knowledge of Rune Magic and adore the various meanings of the runes as ascribed by others as well. Faerynauts use the runes, too, as did JRR Tolkien. I am enjoying your videos. Thank you.
@@servantofaeie1569 How narcissistic to assume this person wants to walk your path. BTW, invoking a magical being to perform your bidding, what would you consider that? I would consider it magic. And dark magic at that! What is prayer to you is magic to others. And vise verse. Just try to open your mind a little bit, huh?
@@servantofaeie1569 You seem to be under the impression that your understanding of the creator is the only correct one. There are many Gods. A person has a right to honor any God they choose.
@@servantofaeie1569 All good. I will allow you to be wrong.
@@servantofaeie1569 Arrogance is not befitting for anyone.
@@servantofaeie1569 lmao self-righteous too I see. Listen buddy, I've spent my whole life with my family trying to indoctrinate me, going to churches, sunday school, youth groups, bible studies, church camps. I haven't missed a day of church in 10 years. A random person saying "submit to your Lord God" online sure as hell won't convert me either. Actually, learning about christianity is what made not be christian. Until i really went to church and paid attention, i was "christian". Leave people alone, and dont be an internet nutcase that spams every video with "youre going to hell" messages. Get a life. You're doing yourself and your religion a disservice because what you're doing just drives people away. Literally no one will be "saved" this way
Great job. Having to find similarities between Greek, Old Norse, and Hebrew alphabet systems. Couldn't have done it with out you.
thank you for this video :D
I've always been intrigued by the runes, wish I could study them thoroughly and understand them deeply.
Wow makes me learn a lot today
Thank you so much 💫💫💫
Thanx so much for your good information. Greetings from good old Germany
I'd love to hear what Dr. Crawford has to say about the inscriptions on the Bramham Moor Ring and the Kingmoor Ring. I've done as much research online as I think I possibly can and it appears no one has been able to entirely figure them out.
Love the video, as always!
oh great thanks.... another bunny trail to follow.... i just got online to look for a recipe and here i am now 6 hours later translating rock carvings from 500BC.... off to look at rings now!
William Eichmann
Hi I have the same name small world
Thank you professor!
Norsk Poetry so beautifull and Luminous...Danke ! Völuspa references...
Great video.
Elder Futhark
sung to the tune of
"The Hanging Tree" from
The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1
Fehu, Uruz
Thurisaz Ansuz Raido
Kannan, Gebo
Wunjo Hagalaz
Nauthiz Isa Jera Eihwaz Perthro
Algiz, Sowilo
Tiwaz Berkana
Ehwaz Mannaz Laguz Inguz Dagaz
Othala's the end
of the Elder Futhark
?
Thanks Doc!
I find your videos very useful. At the same time I was wondering if there's any video which explains the development from the older runic alphabet to the more recent alphabet, and all the linguistic features it has.
Thank you.
Cryptomnesia is nuts!! I once got bored and made up some symbols.. I think some of them turned out to be actual runes.. And I took six of the symbols and doodled them on a sketchbook to look cool. Later on, one of the symbols turned out to be Eihwaz. Stuff is in pop culture so much you can unknowingly pick it up and copy it later it seems!
Thank you very much for all your work and for showing us it with proper quality. I have a question: On your list 'ehwaz' have a horizontal line on top of the two verticals, but everywhere else it has a 'v' on top of the vertical lines, like: |V| . Wich one is correct? Or they're both equivalent? Thanks!
Very nice!
Thank you for you videos , Dr Crawford! I would love to attend your classes if I was in stuck in Texas lol
Guess I’ll settle for TH-cam
Thanks younger Brandon Frazier, really cool stuff
Thank you!
Thank you for these videos. By the way, what kind of runes do you think is easiest for beginners to learn? Want to learn all of them, but mostly the ones that was used by the vikings in norway.(eg er norsk) Is younger Futhark a good starting point?
Thank you. :).
Good work man! I just realize why my name is impossible for non swedes to pronounce (the guttural "o" is quite old), and that I can write my name out of three runes.
Thank you for the video. I got a set of runes as my Christmas gift this year, so now I am learning.
Thank you best
very useful... almost familiar.. ty
I have a lead spindle whorl with a lot of the inscriptions which to me look like runes letters. Happily send you photos to see if you can decipher the message.
6:04
Phirion
Thanks
This is ancestral to the English word "Feet"
I just realized that the music group heilung uses almost all of these pronunciations of these runes in their song "In Maidjan" and I cannot help but wonder what the actual meaning of the song is, are you supposed to translate the pronunciations into the respective runes and figure it out that way or maybe the meaning of the spoken words is the actual meaning? I'd really like to learn a lot about this and I just found your channel