Thurisaz

The rune is called Thurs (Old Norse Þurs, a type of entity, from a reconstructed Common Germanic Þurisaz) in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems. ^[1]

28 relations: Anglo-Saxons, Útgarða-Loki, Codex Vindobonensis 795, Elder Futhark, Gothic alphabet, Gothic runic inscriptions, History of Anglo-Saxon England, Icelandic orthography, Jötunn, Kenning, Metaphor, Old English, Old English rune poem, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Norwegian, Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩, Proto-Germanic language, Rhaetic, Rune, Rune poem, Saturn (mythology), Thegn, Thorn (letter), Thorsberg chape, Vimose inscriptions, Voiceless dental fricative, Ymir.
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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Útgarða-Loki

In Norse mythology, Útgarða-Loki (Anglicized as Utgarda-Loki, Utgard-Loki, and Utgardsloki) is the ruler of the castle Útgarðr in Jötunheimr.

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The Codex Vindobonensis 795 (Vienna Austrian National Library Codex) is a 9th-century manuscript, most likely compiled in 798 or shortly thereafter (after Arno of Salzburg returned from Rome to become archbishop).

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Elder Futhark

The Elder Futhark (or Fuþark), also known as the Older Futhark, Old Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, is the oldest form of the runic alphabets.

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Gothic alphabet

The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language.

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Gothic runic inscriptions

Very few Elder Futhark inscriptions in the Gothic language have been found in the territory historically settled by the Goths (Wielbark culture, Chernyakhov culture).

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).

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Icelandic orthography

Icelandic orthography uses a Latin-script alphabet which has 32 letters.

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Jötunn

A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.

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Kenning

A kenning (Icelandic) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old English rune poem

The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes.

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Old High German

Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Old Norwegian

Old Norwegian (gammelnorsk and gam(m)alnorsk), also called Norwegian Norse, is an early form of the Norwegian language that was spoken between the 11th and 14th century; it is a transitional stage between Old West Norse and Middle Norwegian.

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Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩

In English, the digraph th usually represents either the voiced dental fricative phoneme (as in this) or the voiceless dental fricative phoneme (as in thing).

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Proto-Germanic language

Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Rhaetic

Rhaetic or Raetic, also known as Rhaetian, was a Tyrsenian language spoken in the ancient region of Rhaetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times.

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Rune

A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Thurisaz and rune are runes.

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Rune poem

Rune poems are poems that list the letters of runic alphabets while providing an explanatory poetic stanza for each letter. Thurisaz and rune poem are runes.

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Saturn (mythology)

Saturn (Sāturnus) was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology.

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Thegn

In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn (pronounced; Old English: þeġn) or thane (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties.

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Thorn (letter)

Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English.

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Thorsberg chape

The Thorsberg chape (a bronze piece belonging to a scabbard) is an archeological find from the Thorsberg moor, Germany, that appears to have been deposited as a votive offering.

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Vimose inscriptions

Finds from Vimose, on the island of Funen, Denmark, include some of the oldest datable Elder Futhark runic inscriptions in early Proto-Norse or late Proto-Germanic from the 2nd to 3rd century in the Scandinavian Iron Age and were written in the time of the Roman Empire.

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Voiceless dental fricative

The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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Ymir

In Norse mythology, Ymir, also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurisaz

Also known as *þurisaz, Thiuth, Thorn (rune), Thurisaz (rune), Thurisaz rune, Thurs (rune), .

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