Gebo

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Gebo ( ) is the seventh rune of the older Futhark with the sound value g and is missing from the Old Norse runic alphabet . The reconstructed ancient Germanic name means "gift". It appears in the rune poems as Old English gyfu or Gothic gewa .

Character encoding

default Gebo ( )
Unicode Codepoint U + 16B7
Surname RUNIC LETTER GEBO GYFU G
UTF-8 E1 9A B7
XML / XHTML decimal ᚷ
hexadecimal ᚷ

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