Laguz

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox rune Template:Contains special characters Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang". is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the l-rune <templatestyles src="Script/styles_runic.css" />, Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning "water" or "lake" and Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning "leek". In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called Script error: No such module "lang". "ocean". In the Younger Futhark, the rune is called Script error: No such module "lang". "waterfall" in Icelandic and Script error: No such module "lang". "water" in Norse.

The name of the corresponding Gothic letter (𐌻, l) is attested as Script error: No such module "lang". in the Codex Vindobonensis 795; a normalized (Ulfilan) Gothic form Script error: No such module "lang". is thought to underlie this unconventional spelling.

The rune is identical in shape to the letter l in the Raetic alphabet.

The "leek" hypothesis is based not on the rune poems, but rather on early inscriptions where the rune has been hypothesized to abbreviate Script error: No such module "Lang"., a symbol of fertility, see the Bülach fibula.

Rune Poem:[1] English Translation:

Old Norwegian Script error: No such module "Lang".

A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;
but ornaments are of gold.

Old Icelandic Script error: No such module "Lang".

Water is eddying stream
and broad geysir
and land of the fish.

Anglo-Saxon Script error: No such module "Lang".

The ocean seems interminable to men,
if they venture on the rolling bark
and the waves of the sea terrify them
and the stallion of the deep heed not its bridle.

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References

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  1. Original poems and translation from the Rune Poem Page Template:Webarchive.

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