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The Runic character haglaz, meaning "hail" (the precipitation). Date: 22 April 2006: Source: Based on Runic letter haglaz.png, which was based on the Junicode font. Author: ClaesWallin: Other versions: Runic letter haglaz.png
*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. The Elder Futhark letter has two variants, single-barred ᚺ and double ...
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ast.wikipedia.org Alfabetu rúnicu; Futhorc; Futhark antiguu; Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Usuari:Mcapdevila/Futhark antic
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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 manuscript text attributes the runes to the Marcomanni, quos nos Nordmannos vocamus, and hence traditionally, the alphabet is called "Marcomannic runes", but it has no connection with the Marcomanni, and rather is an attempt by Carolingian scholars to represent all letters of the Latin alphabets with runic equivalents.
The first ætt was reduced to its first six letters, fuþąrk, losing the g and w runes (the old a rune is transliterated as ą for Old Norse as the phoneme it expressed had become more closed). The second ætt lost the æ and p runes. The j rune was rendered superfluous due to Old Norse sound changes, but was kept with the new sound value of a.