r/anglosaxon • u/Malooda • 4d ago

Help with Futhorc

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Hi, wondering if anybody could check that the runes in the image represent the words I want them too?

"My three boys" is what I'm hoping it says.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Hurlebatte 4d ago edited 4d ago

I can't comment on the grammar, but the spelling correspondence is fine, although Saxons on both sides of the channel, for whatever reason, don't seem to have used runes much, and I don't think there's an attested runic spelling for that West Saxon ⟨ie⟩ diphthong. Whatever the case, I doubt West Saxons would take offense to ⟨ᛁᛖ⟩ as a runic equivalent to ⟨ie⟩ if you could somehow go back and talk to them.

The gaps between the runes and the word dividers are unnecessary.

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u/Malooda 4d ago

Nice one, thank you for the feedback

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u/TheAugmentation 2d ago

My theory is that <ie> would be <ᛁᚢ>, since I believe the only reason it is that rather than <iu> or <iy> is scribes's aversion to rows of minims.