Hi, my name is Ymir and I have been struggling with the runes I should use to write my own name. Just spelling it out (in any futhark) seems wrong, making a random bindrune also doesn't feel right. Now, I found a website talking about the origin behind runes and stuff with a complex explanation that Ymir stands for chaos and thor is the opposite and controls that chaos, saying the rune for Ymir could be a reversed thurs/thurisaz. What do you think?
Hmm... There are some parts of this where itās hard to say, and parts where I disagree. For one thing, there is no evidence of changing the meaning of runes by reversing them (since runes could, at least in the Elder period, be written in either direction -- in the Younger period some runes like nĀ and aĀ had the same shape only reversed, so writing right-to-left would have been confusing), and furthermore since itās the Ć¾ursĀ āmonster, ogreā rune, you certainly wouldnāt get an actual monster/ogre/giant by REVERSING it, youād get that by leaving it the way it is.
The only evidence I can think of that the Ć¾ursĀ rune had any more specific meaning than ā(any) monster/ogreā is one of the two oldest copies of the Icelandic rune poem which glosses each rune name in Latin. The entry for Ć¾ursĀ translates it to āSaturnusā. But itās a quite late source, from around 1500, and conflicts with the evidence of the kennings for the Ć¾ursĀ rune, which arenāt really discernible from any other normal giant-kenning (kletta ĆbĆŗi ācrag-dwellerā, flagĆ°a faĆ°irĀ āfather of giantessessā, for example). Also Saturn, while very old, isnāt exacly a dead ringer for the Roman equivalent of Ymir.
On the other hand Old Norse poetic use of words does allow words to be substituted that are more general or specific in meaning, so Ć¾ursĀ could stand for Ymir because he isĀ a Ć¾urs, although not to the exception of other Ć¾ursar.
Anyway -- and I donāt mean to assume, but this is very common -- if youāre having trouble writing it out in full and getting it toĀ āfeel rightā I canāt help but wonder if youāre using the Elder Futhark, which will always cause you problems when you try to write a Norse word, since there was no yĀ (or Ćø, Ē«, Ʀ) in the Elder period. Weāre not sure what YmirĀ would have been back then since we donāt know the length of the y; some guesses are *JÅ«mijaŹĀ or *UmijaŹ.
Since runes were constantly changing there are many ways to write Ymir depending on the place and time. Here are a few ways to do it according to different styles, but be aware that this is not necessarily exhaustive.
(ĆpiŹ was a very prolific runestone carver, or perhaps more than one person working with the same name.Ā āIceland 1200ā²sā is basically the more typically Icelandic of the two different styles represented in the two oldest versions of the Third Grammatical Treatise by Ćlafr hvĆtaskĆ”ld ĆĆ³rĆ°arson).
..........also, you have an awesome name :Ć¾
