Berkano

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Berkano ( ᛒ ) is the eighteenth rune of the older Futhark and the fourteenth rune of the Old Norse runic alphabet with the sound value b. The reconstructed Germanic name means "birch". It appears in the rune poems as Old Norse bjarkan , Old English beorc or Gothic bercna .

Character encoding

Unicode codepoint U + 16D2
Unicode name RUNIC LETTER BERKANAN BEORC BJARKAN B
HTML & # 5842;
character ᛒ

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
  2. ^ Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials