Mannaz

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  • Mannaz rune

  • Transitional variants to the younger Futhark

  • Variant of the younger Futhark ( Madhr )

Mannaz ( ᛗ ) is the twentieth rune of the older Futhark and the fifteenth rune of the Old Norse runic alphabet with the sound value m. The reconstructed Germanic name means “man” or “human”. He appears in the rune poems as Old Norse maðr , Old English man or Gothic manna .

Character encoding

Unicode codepoint U + 16D7 U + 16D8 U + 16D9
Unicode name RUNIC LETTER MANNAZ MAN M RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-MADR M RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-MADR M
HTML & # 5847; & # 5848; & # 5049;
character ᛗ ᛘ ᛙ

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