ᛒ bjarkan
November 30, 2017
Bjarkan means birch tree.
Stanza from the Icelandic Rune Poem:
Birch is leafy twig
and little tree
and fresh young shrub.
Stanza from the Norwegian Rune Poem:
Birch is the shrub with the greenest leaves;
Loki was fortunate in his deceit.
LO: Long-branch
SH: Short-twig
ST: Staveless
VA: Variant
TW: Twig-runes
NO: Old Norse transliteration
EN: Modern English transliteration