Uruz

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  Uruz

Uruz ( ᚢ ) is the second rune of the older Futhark and the Old Norse runic alphabet with the sound value u. The reconstructed Germanic name means " aurochs ". It appears in the runic poems as Old Norse and Old English ūr or Gothic uraz .

meaning

The Icelandic word for "rain" and the Old English word for "aurochs" are derived from two different Proto- European words, * ūruz and * ūrą , which may, however, come from the same root. The Norwegian meaning "slag" is still more obscure, but it may be an Iron Age expression derived from the word for water (compare the Kalevala , where iron is compared to milk).

Therefore it is difficult to find a proto-European name for the rune from the older Futhark . It could have been * ūruz ("aurochs") (see bull (mythology) ), or * ūrą ("water"). Both meanings seem to be possible in comparison to the other rune names: "water" would be comparable to laguz , and "aurochs" to Ehwaz . The Gothic alphabet seems to be based on the meaning "aurochs".

Rune poem

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The name of the rune can be found as Ur in five of the traditional rune poems , but with different meanings.

Rune poem	German translation
Old Norwegian Úr he af illu jarne, opt løypr ræinn á hjarne.	Slag comes from bad iron; often the reindeer walks on icy snow.
Old Icelandic Úr er skýja grátr ok skára þverrir ok hirðis hatr. umbre vísi	Rain is the weeping of the clouds and the ruin of the harvest and the shepherd's hatred.
Old English Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned, felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht.	The aurochs is graceful and horned up, the wild beast fights with its horns, a great wanderer of the moors who is a brave creature.

Character encoding

default		Uruz ( ᚢ )
Unicode	Codepoint	U + 16A2
	Surname	RUNIC LETTER URUZ UR U
UTF-8		E1 9A A2
XML / XHTML	decimal	ᚢ
	hexadecimal	ᚢ

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
3. ↑ Original texts from the Rune Poem Page ( Memento of the original from May 1, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.