Thurisaz
Thurisaz
Thurisaz or Thornuz ( ᚦ ) is the third rune of the older Futhark and the Old Norse runic alphabet with the sound value th . The reconstructed Germanic names mean "giant" ( Thurse ) or "thorn". They appear in the rune poems as Old Norse þurs , Old English þorn or Gothic thyth .
Use in modern times
As “Thorn” (Þ þ), the character found its way into the Latin writing system in Old English . In Icelandic it has been preserved as a character until modern times , its sound value corresponds to the (voiceless) English th . In addition, the character is used in the transcription of the Old Norse and (often) the Gothic language instead of th.
Character encoding
| default | Thurisaz ( ᚦ ) | |
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| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 16A6 |
| Surname | RUNIC LETTER THURISAZ THURS THORN | |
| UTF-8 | E1 9A A6 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
ᚦ
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| hexadecimal |
ᚦ
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
- ↑ cf. english thorn
- ^ Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials