Armanen Runes - List of Runes

List of Runes

The first sixteen of von List's runes correspond to the sixteen Younger Futhark runes, with slight modifications in names (and partly mirrored shapes). The two additional runes are loosely inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc.

1. Fa (an inverted Fe)
2. Ur
3. Thurs (as Anglo-Saxon Thorn) (also known as 'Dorn')
4. Os (a mirrored Younger Futhark Os)
5. Rit (as Reidh)
6. Ka (as in Younger Futhark)
7. Hagal (as Younger Futhark Hagall)
8. Nauth (as Younger Futhark Naud) (also known as Not)
9. Is (as in Younger Futhark)
10. Ar (similar to short-twig Younger Futhark)
11. Sig (as Anglo-Saxon Sigel)
12. Tyr
13. Bar (as Younger Futhark Bjarkan)
14. Laf (as Younger Futhark Logr)
15. Man (as Younger Futhark Madr); see also life rune
16. Yr (as in Younger Futhark, but with a sound value ); see also death rune
17. Eh (the name is from Anglo-Saxon Futhork, the shape like Younger Futhark Ar)
18. Gibor (the name similar to Anglo-Saxon Futhork Gyfu)

There is no historical Gibor rune (the name may be based on the Anglo-Saxon Gyfu rune). Its shape is similar to that of the Wolfsangel symbol.

List associated his Gibor rune with the final stanza of the Rúnatal (stanza 165 of the Hávamál, trans. H. A. Bellows):

An eighteenth I know, / that ne'er will I tell

To maiden or wife of man,

The best is what none / but one's self doth know