Template talk:Elder Futhark
Latest comment: 2 years ago by CoreGoon in topic Ingwaz Variant
Meanings edit
Added some new meanings (incorporating the old ones also) in accordance with information from "The Book of Runes" by Ralph Blum (ISBN 1-85906-042-0), with primary meanings bolded and alternatives normal. The Talking Toaster (talk) 18:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- I have commented on this at Talk:Elder Futhark#Book of Runes. - SudoGhost 18:42, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, I just assumed with the author's academic background that his "re-imagining" was accurate to the original meanings. However, this is clearly not the case. My bad. The Talking Toaster (talk) 19:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- Not a problem. The person that bought me the book thought the same thing; so did I until I started reading it (and became very confused in the process). If I remember correctly, the author does have some kind of academic background (Russian literature or Russian history, I believe), but his books are about divination of various kinds, not historical accuracy. See Ralph Blum for more information. Apparently The Book of Runes drew heavily on then-current books describing the ancient I Ching divination system of China. I didn't know that, but it reinforces what I said here. Not exactly historically accurate Futhark. - SudoGhost 19:27, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, I just assumed with the author's academic background that his "re-imagining" was accurate to the original meanings. However, this is clearly not the case. My bad. The Talking Toaster (talk) 19:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Ingwaz Variant edit
This has been brought up on the talk pages of both Elder Futhark and Runes, where this template is used, but the ᛝ rune does not seem to appear in any Elder Futhark sources, only ᛜ (or it's slightly tilted variant). As such the inclusion of the ᛝ rune on this table seems misleading. Can anyone provide a source for why it should be included in a table of Elder Futhark runes? --CoreGoon (talk) 09:42, 16 January 2022 (UTC)