Siegrune
German
Alternative forms
- Sigrune
Etymology
First attested as a translation of Old Norse sigrún (victory rune).
It was popularized as the name of the ᛋ-rune by Guido von List in his book Das Geheimnis der Runen.[1]
Noun
Siegrune f (genitive Siegrune, plural Siegrunen)
- victory rune
- 1876, “Sigrdrîfumâl”, in Karl Joseph Simrock, transl., Die Edda, page 184:
- Siegrunen schneide, wenn du Sieg willst haben; / Grabe sie auf des Schwertes Griff; / Auf die Seiten Einige, Andere auf das Stichblatt / Und nenne zweimal Tyr.
- Cut victory runes, if you want to have victory; / and carve them on the sword's hilt; / some on the sides, others on the guard / and name Tyr twice
- the ᛋ (Sowilō) rune
Declension
References
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Runen gestern, heute, morgen
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