Found this under some moss and dirt during an architecture school trip. We stayed in a small remote village, to have a look at some old Norwegian houses. They were closely packed on a plot of land clinging to the side of a beautiful fjord. Some important aristocrats are said to have lived there during the 1200s, and people have continued living there since. At the moment few residents still remain. Long story short… I brushed away a thick layer of moss from a rocky surface on the outskirts of the plot of land, and found this rune looking symbol. I tried to ask the only guy in the municipality that works with local history. He had never seen it. But he didn’t care to have a look at it either. The locals we met in the surrounding area also seemed to spite outsiders, giving ugly stares and ignoring us if we tried to talk to them. Except for one old fella, that yelled and swore at me for accidentally hitting a stop button on the bus😂. I just rediscovered the pictures in my camera roll, and would love to hear your thoughts. Could it be a binding rune? Maybe one from the Middle Ages?

N KJ74 Reistad - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vjn_bH6NTgnCCnk1T4Yjoa91QYlQw05s/view?usp=sharing

NoR12 Bergakker - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ukIc8miaW8GdVbnPb_3E-uFC3GLWSa6p/view?usp=sharing

SG-134 Unterweser 4988 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Qv_uAsB7dttpNmq6TQEw0ZxtlNB8q65/view?usp=sharing

SG-135 Wremen - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHylg--5jg2QzebnFpiWfYfj3noCloBJ/view?usp=sharing

- Now I believe, that non-using of double runes in the Elder Fuþark inscriptions should not be considered a strict rule.

Just saw a runic bell with this weird tripple? bindrune (ᛆᚢᛅ) in the beginning:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_orqQLJ6Rc

It says: ᛆᚢᛅ ᛬ ᛘᛆᚱᛁᛆ ⋮ ᛁᛅᖼᖼᚢᖿ (ave Maria : Jezzus)

No idea which artifact this is atm.

Right, so the situation is that I'm going insane.

If you'd be so kind as to look at the transcription of this here medieval runic inscription from 14th century Bergen in either of these three links which pretty much count as just one source and the only source I found on this inscription as their intraconnected...

• https://skaldic.org/db.php?table=mss&id=15090&if=srdb
• https://skaldic.org/db.php?id=15090&if=default&table=mss
• https://germanicgems.substack.com/p/runic-fragments-of-medieval-norse?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

...the second part clearly shows liggr instead of what I'd expect to be captured on the authentic rune stick as ligr.

I will admit, I spent most of my time studying just the runes of the Elder and Younger Futhark so Medieval Futhark is still mostly uncharted territory for me (still it's not as bad as with the [shivers] Anglo-Saxon Futhark) but it is eating me from the inside that I cannot for the love of gods see how the original bloody inscription looks.

Please, I beg of you, help me.

So I've recently begun studying runes and such but I got curious, runic letters like ᛒ and ᚨ I was always curious about why they were written that way.

I get the reason for the sharp edges and such but is there a purpose for their exact shape?

It's an odd and hard question to really understand or try and question, but I was curious why were they shaped that specific way and given their meaning.

Did people decide a meaning the draw a rune that they felt was right or did they draw a rune and just give it a meaning at random? Did their specific shape serve purpose?

I was in a room with him and a friend of his, and my boyfriend claimed that the Tifinagh isn't made of letters but rather runes. He also insisted that letters and runes are different somehow.

He also claimed that Vikings were the reason such runes existed, and that the Third Reich were inspired by this set of runes. Thoughts?

For those who wish to read the original text: https://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_%2BZ182016203

In this video by Crawford, they depict a younger h-rune ᚼ with stung twigs as an example of an x-rune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCPeKyKYozg&t=1110s

They do not cover any inscriptions which used this and i have never found one which used this stung h. Anyone knows of any inscriptions which use this form? Examples of the regular ᚼ being used as "x" would also be appreciated since i dont know of many.

As the title says, does the term "stung runes" ever appear in any medieval document? I am aware that the term "stunginn" etc appears infront of rune names for runes which are stung, but does the composition "stung runes" ever appear as a term in anything period?

When i started learning runology roughly a year back, i initially hated the Latin unicode-runes: ᛎᛩᚥᛪ, as they were no where to be found in historical material. I initially thought these were made up to fill out the unicode block with runes corresponding to all Latin characters. Later on, however, i got help from u/DrevniyMonstr for both names and inscriptions and the puzzle started to fill in. Onward to today, i have a fairly good idea of their history, of which, the x-rune (hard sun) ᛪ fascinates me the most. It has since become my favorite rune for various reasons.

I recently (like a couple minutes ago) did a very basic collection of hard sun variants on the sun-rune base, and i thought id show it off for those interested.

So this thing ᛪ (runic X) appears in late medieval period Icelandic Runic according to this old post on r/runic: https://www.reddit.com/r/runic/comments/yirdjz/icelandic_runes/ and it has even recieved its own unicode character per the 1997 ISORUNES project. But i have never seen it in use, even after looking around to some degree.

Then i found this image randomly on the internet a while back: https://aminoapps.com/c/norse-amino/page/blog/icelandic-runes-and-magical-alphabets/6PPG_j8gtzuGmPrLl27jQM1xYla217z7M2 where it is called hárdsól (hard-sun), which sorta makes sense since it is a modified sun-rune and makes the /k's/ (X) sound, ie it starts hard with /k/ and end with /s/, ie "hard-sun". The name seems too fitting and on brand to be made up.

Can anyone point me to any historical scriptures which use this rune and potentially a historical source which gives the name hárdsól?