ᛦ ýr
December 21, 2017
Ýr means yew tree.
Stanza from the Icelandic Rune Poem:
Yew is bent bow
and brittle iron
and giant of the arrow.
Stanza from the Norwegian Rune Poem:
Yew is the greenest of trees in winter;
it is wont to crackle when it burns.
LO: Long-branch
SH: Short-twig
ST: Staveless
VA: Variant
TW: Twig-runes
NO: Old Norse transliteration
EN: Modern English transliteration