The Names of the Runes (Elder Futhark) 

One of the oldest runic inscriptions ever found has just been announced in the Norwegian media. Krister Vasshus at the University of Bergen has a welcome break-down of the major points of the find in a Twitter thread that starts at twitter.com/KristerVasshus/status/1615236531689607169 and I have a video on the basic facts and my first impressions of the find at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X_m2xcoU9Q0.html

When you realize that Odin gave an eye and hanged himself as a sacrifice to learn those runes, and now you can learn them from a good-looking Colorado cowboy on the internet.

Thank you nordic cowboy

I would never guess in a million years that I would be learning about runes from a cowboy

"I like your funny words, magic man"

I wish English hadn't dropped Þ.

You make the pronounciations seem so easy. It's incredible just watching you talk in Old Norse with such ease.... Have I mentioned how much I appreciate you and your sharing your knowledge with everyone?

5:55 is when he starts talking about the alphabet and the pronunciations

I learned all 24 runes in 4 days (6 at a time) and this video was my go to. Thank you Jackson.

I've been learning and writing in the Elder Futhark since I was 13 over a decade ago. Subbing to your channel to continue my knowledge!

‘As in an unpleasant form of precipitation’ Excellent.

Pretend someone else’s hand is holding the whiteboard

I love how the captions on this video cannot at any point handle the word "futhark" and instead give me "food art," "food arc," and "food org."

In the 1920's (on the farmland that now belongs to my aunt, in west Iceland) a tombstone was discovered from the late 17th century (it's currently in her possession). It was very elaborate and had runic inscriptions, which means Icelanders actually used that alphabet for quite a long time! But it may have been the younger futhark, don't remember it vividly enough.

"Ehwaz," the word for horse, sounds an awful lot like the Latin word for horse, "equus." It's interesting to see the Indo-European relationship here.

Incredible how there’s only one horizontal line in the whole list! And even that, as you said, was sometimes inscribed differently.

(I also messaged this to you on your website, but I don't know if it's better to post it here if you get inundated with messages on your site...) Dr. Crawford, I love all your videos. You know so much and I am always pleasantly surprised at the things I learn when I watch you videos. I recently watched your video on elder futhark runes again, and I came to an interesting hypothesis. I believe kauna actually means "knowledge". If true, the Old Icelandic rune poem would say something like: "Knowledge brings the death of childhood through suffering and the realization of death." Throughout Germanic poetry and mythology, knowledge is talked about as a "burning" sensation, so ulcer and torch being used, respectively, to describe the pain of uncomfortable realizations, and the illuminating feeling of introspective realizations, makes sense. I believe the meaning of "knowledge" would also work for the Old Norwegian and Anglo-Saxon rune poems as well, but those ones are harder for an amateur linguist like myself to translate in the 15 minutes I spent looking up support for my hypothesis (haha). I'll definitely have to spend more time translating the other two to see if it works. But based on the translations I see on Wikipedia, it seems like we could be lighting a new fire in linguistics with this epiphany. (Ok, that's laying it on a little heavy. I'm probably wrong about this because if it's true, it's weird that no one's figured it out yet...) Here's an important question moving forward: is there a linguistic tie between kauna(n) and kunnan (and modern day words, like the Scottish word ken and the modern German word können)? I appreciate your time helping me ponder this, Geoffrey Kuth

This needs to be used again! We Odias from India had been writing in an independent Brahmi derivative called Kalinga abugida since the 3rd century, until our royalty went for the present Odia script in the 12th century, which descends from Siddham script, a far relative of Brahmi. There are many temples where it is written in Kalinga abugida, it is still legible but couldn't be read by common people until recently, when many Odias are learning the Kalinga abugida as well to read these old inscriptions. Same with the Tamils and Kannadigas of Southern India. I hope that this script is taught in schools , atleast secular literature like the Sagas are printed in this script and read in language classes( it will be nicer in showing the evolution of your languages) and some signboards should also start featuring this script along with Roman script. Honestly, we don't have any lessons about the Germanic and Scandinavian history, only Roman history is relevant in schools while talking of Europe and Egypt for Africa, apart from the Sanskrit and Dravidian heritage of India.

Thank god. Some one who isn't a witch dr telling me what runes mean 😆

Thank You very much sir. That was fantastic! What what i found extremally interesting fo me, was your explanation of the *jera rune. Never before i thought about this rune like after video of Yours. For me as a native polish speaker, the translation of the jera rune as describing the harvest period is very converging to the Old Polish "jary" which means "sown in the spring" or "early harvest". From this word (jary) we have "jarzyny" (eng: vegetables), we have also "pszenica jara" (eng. spring wheat). I can see that nordic culture had heavy impact on their neighbours, not only in terms of gods pantheon. Slavic and nordic gods are very similar, just like greek and romans gods pantheon. Just to mention Thor and Perun, which are basically the same. When it coms to everyday life and grammar, i can also see that impact too. Every day something new to learn / relearn. Regars Rafal.

I need to learn Old Norse and Old English now

Thank you very much for taking the time to record and share this info I really appreciated it

Great job, dude. I’m just getting in to Futhark, and this is a big help. Looking forward to the rest of your videos!

Just discovered your channel. Thank you very much for the time and effort put into the channel. This is exactly hr information I have been looking for, and presented well.

Tusen takk for denne videoen. Det er kjekt å høre andre forteller og beundrer våre forfedres historie. Thanks for this lecture, it's nice to hear people admire our ancestor's teachings.

My boyfriend is Danish,Ice landic and swedish, from arizona . He absolutely loves watching your videos jackson.

Your version of the Poetic Edda is simply magnificent. Thank you.

loved this information and delivery. super interested in checking out the other videos.

As always, your videos are awesome, Dr. Crawford.

I have been writing in runes for many years. I learned them from several sources. I didn't notice the E. I love how you pronounce and explain meanings. I have some knowledge of Rune Magic and adore the various meanings of the runes as ascribed by others as well. Faerynauts use the runes, too, as did JRR Tolkien. I am enjoying your videos. Thank you.

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So glad to see an academic discussing this popularized era.

I just read your edda and it was amazing. I highly recommend your translation!

Thanks from France for your videos. Full of quality and accessibility.

Thank you so much for making this video. Very helpful!

I have been looking for something like this! Can't wait to watch your other videos. Subbed!

Your face is gorgeous. Also thank you for pronouncing the runes. It can be difficult to guess the pronunciation when looking at the spelling.

This is my favorite youtube channel. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Started learning today and i found this to be the most useful source more than any website so far. Thank you sir i cannot begin to guess where you gained such knowledge.

I've been interested in Norse Mythology for the past couple of days and you popped up :-) thank you! About to binge watch your videos. You're very enticing and knowledgeable.

finally some correct pronunciation. THANK YOU!

I have learned so much from Dr. CRAWFORD it's unreal... between his teachings AND Ocean Keltoi finding TRUTH amongst Myth and Saga has been amazing to uncover! Being from Colorado, I wish he was teaching here instead of California! ᛗᚨᛃ ᚦᛖ ᚷᛟᛞᛊ ᚹᚨᛏᚲᚺ ᛟᚹᛖᚱ ᛃᛟᚢ!

Excellent and helpful information. Thank you.

Great video Dr. Crawford. I'm an Albanian from Kosovo, and I was inspired by your video to write an article about the basic color terms in Albanian. I would love to see more videos about basic color terms (be it in Old Norse or other Indo-European languages), the last one is my personal favorite. Have a good day!

Best description ever. Thank u!

I absolutely enjoyed listening to your audio of the Peotic Edda. It is fantastic to have a source for these old stories where I am able to actually hear the pronunciations instead of always trying to decide how I think it should be said. Your work is really fantastic for the amateur researcher that has more restricted access to the academic writings on the subject. Thank you so much for your work.

Professor Crawford, I am just recently beginning to learn Norse mythology and also about Runes. I have always had a deep interest in that culture and their traditions. Ty for your channel , I'm sure I shall be coming back to learn from you . I send you love and light .

Thanks. This video more than makes up for the previous one on the same topic.

I really enjoyed this, thank you for the brilliant video

Very useful. Very informative. Thanks!

This was great! Thank you!

Thanks Doc! Very informative, enlightening & confusing all bundled into one.

Very useful and very informative. Thank you.

Thank you SO much for these videos.

THANKS FOR HELPING. CONGRATULATIONS. EXCELLENT VIDEO.

your voice is calming to listen to.

Clear and simple. Thanks so much.

Thank you for your work.

Im learning to read runes this is great will help alot thank you doc

Thank you, Dr. Jackson.

I love your country version of havismal in your reading of the Poetic Edda. As a kentucky boy it helps me understand it and remember it easier.

Thank you so much Dr.

thank you so much i've been wanting to learn these but never found a good source so thank you very much

Thank's for this Dr.

Norsk Poetry so beautifull and Luminous...Danke ! Völuspa references...

I learned to write in elder futhark when I was 6 and I still use it every day 😊😊

I'm a new subscriber. Thank you so much for making the video.

Thanks liked the video just learning the runes

BEAUTIFUL ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Thank you ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Thank you, all of you.

Elder Futhark sung to the tune of "The Hanging Tree" from The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1 Fehu, Uruz Thurisaz Ansuz Raido Kannan, Gebo Wunjo Hagalaz Nauthiz Isa Jera Eihwaz Perthro Algiz, Sowilo Tiwaz Berkana Ehwaz Mannaz Laguz Inguz Dagaz Othala's the end of the Elder Futhark

Excellent piece which indicates how much detective work goes into studying the Dark Ages - it is like archaeology

Cryptomnesia is nuts!! I once got bored and made up some symbols.. I think some of them turned out to be actual runes.. And I took six of the symbols and doodled them on a sketchbook to look cool. Later on, one of the symbols turned out to be Eihwaz. Stuff is in pop culture so much you can unknowingly pick it up and copy it later it seems!

Thank you professor!

"Boy!"

Great video.

Just added your Poetic Edda translation to my reading list. By the way, if I looked at a picture of you and had to guess your name, I feel confident that Jackson Crawford would be in my top five guesses. Not a lot of people look exactly like their name.

Wow makes me learn a lot today

Thanx so much for your good information. Greetings from good old Germany

Thank you so much 💫💫💫

Finally a video that's not bs and actual educative content.

Excellent video as always, Dr. Crawford. I had the privilege of reading some of the (copied) Silver Bible while getting my BA at the University of Uppsala back in the 80s. While Norse/Germanic history is not my area of focus as a historian, I have always been fascinated with the study of the Goths and how much of their Germanic heritage they carried with them throughout their migrations through West and East Europe.

Very nice!

thank you for this video :D

Great job. Having to find similarities between Greek, Old Norse, and Hebrew alphabet systems. Couldn't have done it with out you.

Thank you for you videos , Dr Crawford! I would love to attend your classes if I was in stuck in Texas lol Guess I’ll settle for RU-vid

Thanks Doc!

Great video sir. Very informative and not convoluted AT ALL. That seems to be a recurring theme in alot of videos about the runes.

I've always been intrigued by the runes, wish I could study them thoroughly and understand them deeply.

I'd love to hear what Dr. Crawford has to say about the inscriptions on the Bramham Moor Ring and the Kingmoor Ring. I've done as much research online as I think I possibly can and it appears no one has been able to entirely figure them out. Love the video, as always!

very useful... almost familiar.. ty

I see a lot of comments about him being a cowboy !!! Hell yeah ... now look here is another cowboy learning these runes !!! I love it !!!

I find your videos very useful. At the same time I was wondering if there's any video which explains the development from the older runic alphabet to the more recent alphabet, and all the linguistic features it has. Thank you.

Thank you best

Thank you!

Thank you 😊

What a beautiful witch 😂

Thanks younger Brandon Frazier, really cool stuff

With regards to the Ingwaz rune, he commented that no word in Old Norse or any Germanic language began with an 'ng' sound. He also said he thought that applied to other languages too. However 'ng' at the beginning of words occurs quite often in Maori (the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand) particularly in the common words 'Nga' and 'Ngati' which are widely used as they basically translate as 'the' (plural). Many New Zealand iwi (tribe) names begin with one of these (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Whatua etc). Correctly pronounced it is the 'ng' sound from 'singer'; however most non-careful, non-Maori New Zealand simply say as an 'n'.

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