I had to edit out a bad assumption I made about the sound value of ᛇᛋ after Eadwine from the Old English Discord pointed out that it wasn't necessarily [xs].

This has to be the strangest of all the runes when it comes to determining what sound it's meant to make.

@Hurlebatte

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but the strangest thing about the rune is that it exists at all. All the other "original" runes have good explanations for why they exist. For this one we have to guess.

I would guess it's a bit like the letter y, not in terms of it being equivalent, but in terms of it being used for either a high vowel or a palatal consonant. /j/ and /i/ often get swapped, but I don't know about /ç/ and /i/. It wouldn't surprise me if it once stood for /x/ with hægel originally being /h/ instead of /x/, but since OE didn't have /h/ to my knowledge, it's like hagel became /x/ and ih became more associated with palatal sounds until it became a high vowel.

Any chance you could share the font used in your videos? It’s almost Tolkien-like, but not quite.

@Hurlebatte

2 жыл бұрын

Its name is Pfeffer Mediæval. robert-pfeffer.net/schriftarten/englisch/index.html

You mentioned (somewhere) that ᛇ never made both a vowel sound and a consonant sound in the same text. Do you think that is intentional or it just so happened that it didn’t have to opportunity to do both. Like maybe none of the words had both sounds present.

@Hurlebatte

Ай бұрын

I suspect it was intentional but since there aren't many known Futhorc inscriptions it's hard to be confident.

Hi James~♡

@Hurlebatte

2 жыл бұрын

Hiiiii. Enjoy the runes.

@cafemocha920

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hurlebatte Yes!