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made  this for my gf since she loves galarian zigzagoon.

ITS OK FAM U CAN DO IT

I DID IT and now i just finished my 2nd training day out of 3 and omg i can’t wait to start

I’m always happy to help, and you can feel free to ask any other questions that might come up.

The elder futhark was used to write languages that would mostly fall under the heading of “Proto-North Germanic” (Or “Proto-Norse”) or “Proto-West Germanic” (the ancestor of Old English, Old High German, etc). You might notice that some Old Norse vowels can’t be written in elder futhark, like y, æ, ø, and ǫ — that’s because they actually didn’t exist yet.

Other than runic inscriptions, these languages were not written and are reconstructed by comparing the languages that developed from them, as well as those little bits that we do have written down, and to their “cousin” languages like Latin, Sanskrit, or Lithuanian. So for example, the word that later developed into English wolf, Old Norse úlfr, German Wolf, etc was *wulfaz, and would have looked like this:

Now *wulfaz is pretty easy to piece back together — partially because it actually was written in runes (albeit a little late). But ótti is tough. There are a couple different things it could have come from, and I wouldn’t really feel comfortable making a suggestion as to how to write that one in elder runes.

On the site I recommended, it lists runic inscriptions by location, and sometimes subdivides by date. So for example to find Viking-age inscriptions from Norway, you go to “Norske runeinnskrifter II." It’s in Norwegian so you won’t be able to read much, but anywhere that there is a link with the word "Bilde(t)" (‘picture’) you can see a photograph of the actual inscription and compare it to the text. For example: