Hagalaz
Hagalaz
Variant in Anglo-Saxon Futhorc
Variant in the younger Futhark
Hagalaz ( ᚺ ) is the ninth rune of the older Futhark and the seventh rune of the Old Norse runic alphabet with the sound value h. The reconstructed Germanic name means "hail". This rune appears in the rune poems as Old Norse hagall , Old English hægl or Gothic haal .
Runic poems
The name of the rune can be found in three of the traditional rune poems :
| Rune poem | German translation |
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Old Norwegian |
Hail is the coldest grain; Christ created the old world. |
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Old Icelandic |
Hail is the coldest grain and shower of sleet and disease of snakes. |
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Old English |
Hail is the whitest of the grains; it falls from the air of heaven and blown away by gusts of wind; where it becomes water then. |
Character encoding
| Unicode codepoint | U + 16BA | U + 16BB | U + 16BC | U + 16BD |
| Unicode name | RUNIC LETTER HAGLAZ H | RUNIC LETTER HAEGL H | RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-HAGALL H | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-HAGALL H |
| HTML | & # 5818; | & # 5819; | & # 5820; | & # 5821; |
| character | ᚺ | ᚻ | ᚼ | ᚽ |
Racist and right-wing use
The anti-Semitic ariosoph Guido von List designed a rune system in 1908 in which the younger Hagal rune formed the "mother" rune.
Werner von Bülow gave the magazine of the esoteric-racist Edda Society founded in 1925 the name Hag All All Hag , later simply Hagal , after the rune. The magazine existed until 1939. Its authors interpreted the seizure of power by National Socialism as the result of cosmic laws, propagated the subordination of the individual to the fascist idea of the national community , described "Aryan" family traditions of SS members such as Karl Maria Wiligut , welcomed the annexation of Austria and others German annexations in Eastern Europe.
Karl Maria Wiligut gave the “Reichsführer SS” Heinrich Himmler in 1934 an “Ur-Vatar-Unsar”, which depicted runes from the younger Futhark, including the Hagal rune, in prayer form as the name of God: “Vatar unsar, who you are the Aithar. Gibor is Hagal of Aithars and Irda! ”. Wiligut also designed a "ring of honor" for SS members on behalf of Himmler, which wore the Hagal rune in addition to the swastika , the victory rune and the SS skull. Initially, only SS leaders from the “fighting time” before 1933 with a membership number below 5000 were to receive the ring. Since the beginning of the Second World War (September 1, 1939), however, the ring was given to almost every SS leader, especially to all graduates of the SS Junker Schools . Every rune of the SS ring of honor was accompanied by sayings that Wiligut had taken almost literally from Guido von List's book Secret of the Runes (1908). The saying for the Hagal rune was: "Surround the universe in you and you will rule the universe". The 6th SS Mountain Division "North" used the Hagal rune as its identifier, also on military vehicles on the Eastern Front .
Right-wing esotericists use the six-membered Hagal rune as a symbol for the all-encompassing, death and life, for example on tombstones instead of the Christian cross. The German Pagan Front , founded in 1998, also used the Hagal rune as its symbol. In the same year, another right-wing extremist magazine Hagal named after the rune was founded in Dresden . She publishes articles on neo-paganism , theorists of fascism such as Julius Evola and the dark wave scene. The new right magazine Junge Freiheit praised her for it.
The Internet network Reconquista Germanica , which has been in operation since 2017, uses a variant of the Hagal rune on a black background as its logo.
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde. (= Metzler Collection. Volume 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
- ^ Raymond I. Page : Runes. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1987, ISBN 0-520-06114-4 .
- ^ Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials
- ↑ Original texts from the Rune Poem Page ( Memento from May 1, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Ian Baxter: Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945: Images of War. Pen & Sword Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78159-186-4 , p. 38.
- ↑ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. New York University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 0-8147-3060-4 , p. 160. and footnotes 15-17 at p. 254.
- ↑ Alexandra Pesch: One more drop in the hot stones - On the runic inscription discovered in 1992 on the Externsteine. In: Wilhelm Heizmann, Astrid van Nahl: Runica - Germanica - Mediaevalia. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes . Volume 37). (2003) de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-017778-7 , pp. 567-580, here p. 575 and fn. 23
- ↑ Knut Stang: Ritter, Landsknecht, Legionär: military-mythical models in the ideology of the SS. Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58022-6 , p. 133.
- ↑ Rüdiger Sünner : Black Sun: Unleashing and abuse of myths in National Socialism and right esotericism. Herder, 2003, ISBN 3-451-05205-9 , p. 90.
- ^ Ian A. Baxter: Eastern Front: The SS Secret Archives. Spellmount, 2003, ISBN 1-86227-222-0 , p. 83.
- ↑ Claudia Hempel: When children become right-wing extremists: mothers tell. To Klampen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86674-021-1 , p. 192.
- ↑ Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-01984-6 , p. 328.
- ↑ Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene: Religiosity in right-wing extremist youth. LIT, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6327-1 , p. 228.
Remarks
- ↑ Influence of Christian motifs in the old Norwegian rune poem (approx. 14th century)