ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3134 http://www.s-gabriel.org/3134 ************************************ From: Clare Baldock 27 Jul 2006 Greetings from the Academy of S. Gabriel! You asked us how to spell the Norse version of your name in runes. Throughout this letter a '/' indicates an acute accent on the previous letter. You can find several versions of the futhark, or runic alphabet, on the web: http://www.arild-hauge.com/enruner.htm The futhark labelled "Norwegian-Danish Runes from the 800's" is a good choice. Notice that these tables identify each rune with a Roman letter; we will use that labeling in this letter to give you the runic spelling of your name. We should stress that this is a modern scholarly convention, not a notation that would have been used in our period. You'll also notice that there are no runes corresponding to some of the letters in your name, like 'o/' and 'd'. Just as our letter represents different sounds in the words and , the Norse used one rune to represent more than one sound. The name would actually have been written with the runes corresponding to the spelling . Here we use 'a' to represent the tenth rune rather than the fourth one. Note that this spelling is valid only when you write the name in runes; it should not be used with Latin letters. I hope this letter has been useful. Please write to us again if any part of it has been unclear or if you have other questions. I was assisted in researching and writing this letter by Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Talan Gwynek and Juliana de Luna. For the Academy, Eleyne de Comnocke 27 July 2006