Fehu

Fehu

Fehu ( ᚠ ) is the first rune of the older Futhark and the Old Norse runic alphabet with the sound value / f /. The reconstructed ancient Germanic run name means' cattle; Cattle piece, movables ; Prosperity 'and appears in the runic poems as Old Norse fé ' cattle, property, money ', Old English feoh ' cattle, property, money, fortune 'and Gothic faíhu ' money '. Such a correspondence between all runic poems and also the Gothic letter name is unusual and gives the reconstructed * fehu a high degree of certainty.

Runic poems

The name of the rune can be found in three of the traditional rune poems and is mentioned in the old Swedish rune poem and in the Abecedarium Nordmannicum .

Rune poem	German translation
Old Norwegian Fé vældr frænda róge; føðesk ulfr í skóge.	Prosperity is a source of strife between relatives; The wolf lives in the forest.
Old Icelandic Fé er frænda róg ok flæðar viti ok grafseiðs gata aurum fylkir.	Prosperity is a source of strife between relatives and the fire of the sea and the path of the serpent.
Anglo-Saxon Feoh byþ frofur fira gehwylcum; sceal ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan gif he wile for drihtne domes hleotan.	Prosperity is pleasant for everyone; yet everyone must freely grant it if he is to gain honor in the eye of the Lord.

Character encoding

default		Fehu ( ᚠ )
Unicode	Codepoint	U + 16A0
Unicode	Surname	RUNIC LETTER FEHU FEOH FE F
UTF-8		E1 9A Q0
XML / XHTML	decimal	`ᚠ`
XML / XHTML	hexadecimal	`ᚠ`

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
↑ cf. English fee 'Fee', Dutch vee , Swedish fä ; außergermanisch Latin Pecu , livestock, property ', Lithuanian Pekuš , cattle' and Sanskrit paśúḥ , livestock, animal '.
^ Raymond I. Page : Runes. 11th impression. British Museum Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-7141-8065-3 , p. 15.
↑ Original texts from the Rune Poem Page ( Memento of the original from May 1, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[Düwel-1] Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .

[2] . English fee 'Fee', Dutch vee , Swedish fä ; außergermanisch Latin Pecu , livestock, property ', Lithuanian Pekuš , cattle' and Sanskrit paśúḥ , livestock, animal '.

[PAGE15-3] Raymond I. Page : Runes. 11th impression. British Museum Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-7141-8065-3 , p. 15.

[4] Original texts from the Rune Poem Page ( Memento of the original from May 1, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2