I have more to say on this topic after reading the scholarly book "Runic Amulets and Magic Objects" by MacLeod and Mees. The book puts forth that some runes were used as abbreviations for magical words like ᚨᛚᚢ and ᛚᚨᚢᚲᚨᛉ. I think it's worth getting. The book is thick but it has lots of information I didn't know about when I made this video.

Could not agree more with the last part you mention. Written language has had one of, if not the most, profound impacts on human civilization that being able to write with runes makes them infinitely more interesting and actually magically than any sigil. Even from a religious perspective writing has always held a profoundly spiritual significance. It is no coincidence that the Bible begins with "In the beginning was the word"

@Hurlebatte

3 жыл бұрын

If only New Agers could see it like that.

I thought I was experiencing some major déjà vu 😅

@Hurlebatte

3 жыл бұрын

I've remade half my videos by now, and I'm about to remake the Futhorc numerals one too.

In regard to ᛈ and ᛒ merging in the futhark, they are the same place and manner of articulation, the only difference is voicing. Not surprising that they merged, you see the same in the futhorc with ᚠ for f and v and ᛋ for s and z, which all have the same relationship to each other as p and b The elimination of this type of redundancy might be why they repurposed ᛉ in the futhorc come to think of it

@Hurlebatte

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine that whatever name ᛉ once had, the /z/ sound showed up in its nominative case ending. Since West Germanic dropped nominative case endings, the rune probably stopped being associated with /z/ (since its name now lacked /z/), then people probably began associating it with whatever sound its name started with, which as you say would've been a redundancy. I guess there's some possibility that people still associated it with /z/ (or maybe /r/ or /s/ if /z/ had just turned into one of those), but they probably didn't know why it was associated with a sound not found in its name.

@timothyeachus7242

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hurlebatte I’m probably looking at it from too broad of a lens then. Sledgehammer for a scalpel’s job

@Hurlebatte

3 жыл бұрын

@@timothyeachus7242 No, I was agreeing. ᛉ probably had a redundant sound value for a while, and that's probably why they repurposed it. The same thing happened with the Norse equivalent ᛦ which eventually got repurposed for use as /y/.

While I agree with most of what you have said, there are more examples of what you’ve shown of SINGLE rune divination or I guess “enchanting” of certain objects. Nonetheless thanks for the food for thought

@Hurlebatte

2 жыл бұрын

Would you share the names of those artefacts?