Elder Futhark - The runic alphabet with illustrations

A visual presentation of The Elder Futhark - The runic alphabet with illustrations, names in proto-Germanic, Swedish and English. Also some wild mumblings and interpretations of what the runes actually symbolizes and looks like. Hopefully it helps you to learn the runes!

[jayjay]

This is the best video I have seen explaining the elder futhark. Greetings from Norway.

[svenderikengh]

Nice to be guided with all your joy and knowledge

[Godobrosto]

Really liked your video. Thank you. Hope you well.

[tloudah]

Thanks. Just the angle i needed to understand them better. Makes totally sense.

[fergon]

Thank you for helping us out with pronunciation and knowledge! May blessings! Hope Freyja showers you in wealth of all kinds❤️🙏🏽

[kahnakuhl]

Thanks for the video, Johan. At around 1:19 you say feijo in Swedish means fair. I don't speak Swedish at all but can't find this meaning when googling (including Google translate). Did I get the spelling wrong?

I'm interested because my wife's family name is Feher, which means fair or white in Hungarian - it seems these words might be related, but I'm always told that Hungarian has very little connection with any other languages.

[analemma.inflection]

Great video! I’ll have to ask ng to get it lots of views. Dagaz reminds me of the shadow cast by a gnomonic sundial.

[savagedonut]

Hello, just a quick question please, do you know why the runes were dropped in favor of the latin alphabet? Alphabet evolution: Egyptian hieroglyphs -> Proto Sinai (Egypt writing system) -> Phoenician(modern Lebanon) -> Greek alphabet (added vowels - Cyrillic alphabet ) -> Latin -> Modern European languages but it started in Egypt it seems. Europe is linked to Egypt. Why were runes dropped in nordic countries/Germany in favor of Egyptian writing, do you know?

[johanfalk]

The more I think of it, the more I land in the conclusion that the þurisaz rune (nr 3) is actually better translated into Thurs, meaning giant. Why? Because this would make the four first runes turn into a part of the creation myth in Norse mythology! In the dawn of time there was the cow Audhumbla (rune F or U rune), from her teats the first giant, a thurs (rune þ) - Ymer drink milk. After that Audhumbla licked a salt stone and the god Bure appeared. He was to become the progenitor of all the Asirs (A rune). How does that sound? Perhaps someone has thought of this before?
(The translation of the þ rune into "thorne" might be a later mixup, since it resembles of a thorn...) Thoughts?
Speqking of mythology... also interesting that there are two "cows" in the start of the runic alphabet since many indo-european myths has divine twins in them... What story could theese two originate from?

[LearnRunes]

Did you create these illustrations yourself?

[lumiere-fontaine]

Just want to let people know that the elder fuþark was used to write proto-Norse while the younger fuþark was used to write old Norse

Edit: And the elder fuþark is also a reconstructed writing system, so it is different from the original

[neckoil]

how are words pronounced with Rune how would you say my previous comment .. please

[saadselmani]

مامعني هذا الرمز المكتوب E ihwaz لأن عندي رمز مثله قياسه 10سم

[samhaine]

ive often wondered whether the runes we know of today (the various futharcs) are the same as the runes of odin, or whether all these alphabets were descended from an older, now lost, system.

[MonkeyDLuffy-gdse]

With the dagaz rune, its similar to the sowulo rune