ᚠ fé

Fé means wealth or cattle, as cattle were the equivalent of wealth. Meaning the more livestock you owned, the wealthier you were.

 

 

Stanza from the Icelandic Rune Poem:

 

Wealth is the cause of conflict among kinsmen
and fire of the sea
and path of the serpent.

 

 

Stanza from the Norwegian Rune Poem:

 

Wealth causes conflict among kinsmen;
a wolf is born in the woods.