ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1996 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1996 ************************************ From: "Sara L Friedemann" 8 Mar 2000 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You wanted to know what the runic spelling of the Norse masculine name would be. Here is a brief letter with the information we have found. A copy of the past report we sent you is available here: http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?1957 In one source of Norse names in runic spellings, is found 14 times as and 8 times as . [1] Runic writing doesn't make a distinction between capital and small letters; here the capital represents the R-rune, which represents a slightly different sound than . Similarly, there are two ways that was recorded: and , both of which are equally common. The runic alphabet had no ; hence was used instead. Additionally, the \n\ is still pronounced in , even though it is not spelled out. Runic grammatical rules allow to be deleted before a consonant such as at times. is almost always spelled . Your name could therefore be recorded in runes in any of the four following ways: olafr ulfbrants sun olafr ulfbrats sun ulafr ulfbrants sun ulafr ulfbrats sun Word divisions in runic spellings were not consistent. There is often a cross or dot or other small sign between words, but words can also be written together without breaks. Runic spellings didn't used double consonants, so if and are written together as a single word, it would be with a single . We hope that this letter has been useful to you, and that you will not hesitate to write again if any part was unclear or if you have further questions. Research and commentary on this letter was provided by Lindorm Eriksson, Hartmann Rogge, Talan Gwynek, and Arval Benicoeur. For the Academy, ~Aryanhwy merch Catmael, 08Mar00 --------------------------------------- References: [1] Uppsala University Department for Scandinavian Languages, "Rundata", software pre-release version 8.84 (test) (Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala universitet, 1990). http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.html