Perthro
Perthro
Perthro or Pertho ( ᛈ ) is the fourteenth rune of the older Futhark (the sixth rune in the second Ætt ) with the sound value p and is absent from the Old Norse runic alphabet . The reconstructed Germanic name means "fruit tree".
The rune appears in the rune poems as Old English peorþ or Gothic pertra .
History
The oldest surviving artifact with a complete older Futhark including the Perthro rune is the Kylverstein , which dates to around 400 AD . On the coffin of Saint Cuthbert from 698, the p-rune replaces the Greek P on an inscription . The coin inscriptions of Kent II, Kent III and Kent IV, which were minted around 700 AD, also contain the rune Perthro. It can also be seen on the Eibenstock of Westeremden from around 750 AD.
Character encoding
| Unicode codepoint | U + 16C8 |
| Unicode name | RUNIC LETTER PERTHO PEORTH P |
| HTML | & # 5832; |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
- ↑ cf. Perth
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