- Source: Naudiz
*Naudiz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the n-rune ᚾ, meaning "need, distress". In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as ᚾ nyd, in the Younger Futhark as ᚾ, Icelandic naud and Old Norse nauðr. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌽 n, named nauþs.
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N.
The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd) about the rune as a beer-rune and that
"You should learn beer-runes
if you don’t want another man’s wife
to abuse your trust if you have a tryst.
Carve them on the drinking-horn
and on the back of your hand,
and carve the rune ᚾ on your fingernail."
The rune is recorded in all three rune poems:
See also
Elder Futhark
Younger Futhark
Rune poem
References
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- Alfabet Futhark Kuno
- Alfabet Gotik
- Naudiz
- Nyd
- Runic magic
- Rune
- Elder Futhark
- Gothic alphabet
- History of the alphabet
- Runic (Unicode block)
- Nion
- List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, P–S