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Various forms of the haglaz rune in the Elder Futhark *Haglaz or *Hagalaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the h-rune ᚺ, meaning "hail" (the precipitation). In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as hægl, and, in the Younger Futhark, as ᚼ hagall. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌷 h, named hagl.
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
The formation of the Elder Futhark was complete by the early 5th century, with the Kylver Stone being the first evidence of the futhark ordering as well as of the p rune. Specifically, the Rhaetic alphabet of Bolzano is often advanced as a candidate for the origin of the runes, with only five Elder Futhark runes ( ᛖ e , ᛇ ï , ᛃ j , ᛜ ...
The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters, in use from about the 9th century, after a "transitional period" during the 7th and 8th centuries.
Rune UCS Trans. IPA Proto-Germanic name Meaning ᚠ: f /ɸ/, /f/ *fehu "chattel, wealth" ᚢ: u /u(ː)/?*ūruz "aurochs", Wild ox (or *ûram "water/slag"?) ᚦ: þ ...
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ast.wikipedia.org Alfabetu rúnicu; Futhark antiguu; Usage on ba.wikipedia.org Рун яҙмаһы
It was based on the Elder Futhark ᛟ or othala rune, with further addition of "feet" or "serifs". During the Second World War it was used by the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division " Prinz Eugen " and the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division " Nederland " , as well as the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt , which was responsible for ...