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Emma in Norse runes

Emma in Elder Futhark runes: ᛖᛗᛗᚨ. See the rune name and meaning for each letter, copy it.

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ᛖᛗᛗᚨ
approximateThe Elder Futhark wrote an ancient Germanic language, not modern English. This is the standard letter-for-letter convention, not a historical spelling.

Rune by rune

eEhwaz · horse - trust, teamwork
mMannaz · man - humanity, the self
mMannaz · man - humanity, the self
aAnsuz · god - wisdom, a message

ᛖᛗᛗᚨ is Emma in Elder Futhark runes, the oldest runic alphabet, using the standard letter-for-letter convention museum charts follow. Each rune has its own name and meaning — the breakdown below reads your name rune by rune.

How it works

The Elder Futhark is the oldest runic alphabet: 24 runes carved into stone, bone and metal across northern Europe from roughly 150 to 800 CE, centuries before the Vikings.

An honest word first: there is no historically correct runic spelling of a modern English name, because the runes wrote a different language. What we use is the standard letter-for-letter convention, the same one museum charts use, with one nice touch: the sounds th, ng and ei get the single runes that really wrote them.

Every rune also had a name and a meaning: Fehu was cattle and wealth, Sowilo the sun. The breakdown below reads your name rune by rune.

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