@falkabarnâ requested âNo frith with fascists!â in Old West Norse and matching runes. Since I knew I was gonna go all-out with this one I did make some choices to favor legibility over pure accuracy, like leaving the n before the k. The only difference between the left and the right is the diacritics to mark e and g, and I changed the nasal Ä to a in the second since youâre more likely (though not certain) to see that along with runes marked with diacritics.
In Old Norse the subject of a sentence is usually in the nominative case, but this isnât actually a complete grammatical sentence. Itâs more like góðan dag âgood dayâ where the whole phrase is expressed in the accusative case rather than the nominative, góðr dagr. This sort of construction probably originates in shortening a longer sentence like hafðu góðan dag âhave a good dayâ where ðu/ĂŸĂș âyouâ is the subject of the sentence. So rather than engi friðr, weâll say engan frið.
The word engi/enginn ânothing; no oneâ varies heavily in Old Norse texts and we could just as easily say enga or Ăžngvan, but engan is the one that eventually won out, and our phrase will end up being the same in both Old Norse and Modern Icelandic.
Iâll use the modern Icelandic word fasisti âfascist.â
âNo frith with fascistsâ engan frið með fasistum inkÄ n friĂŸ miĂŸ fasistum iÌnkÌan friĂŸ miÌĂŸ fasistum
The background is mostly just for texture but itâs the page of the Codex Regius with HĂĄvamĂĄl 127 on it.


















