
ᛘ maðr
December 7, 2017
Maðr means human or person.
Stanza from the Icelandic Rune Poem:
Mankind is the delight of man
and augmentation of the earth
and adorner of ships.
Stanza from the Norwegian Rune Poem:
Mankind is an augmentation of the dust;
great is the claw of the hawk.
LO: Long-branch
SH: Short-twig
ST: Staveless
VA: Variant
TW: Twig-runes
NO: Old Norse transliteration
EN: Modern English transliteration