Berkanan
Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |
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*Berkanan | Beorc | Bjarkan | ||
"birch" | "birch"/"poplar"? | "birch" | ||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |
Unicode | ᛒ U+16D2 | ᛒ U+16D2 | ᛓ U+16D3 | |
Transliteration | b | |||
Transcription | b | |||
IPA | [β] | [b] | [b],[p] | |
Position in rune-row | 18 | 13 |
Berkananis the reconstructedProto-Germanicname of thebruneᛒ,meaning "birch".In theYounger Futharkit is calledBjarkanin the Icelandic and Norwegianrune poems.In theAnglo-Saxonrune poem it is calledbeorc( "birch" or "poplar"). The correspondingGothic letteris 𐌱b,namedbairkan.
The letter shape is likely directly based onOld Italic𐌁, whence comes also the Latin letterB.
The rune is recorded in all three rune poems:
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Old Norwegian
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Old Icelandic
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Anglo-Saxon
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References[edit]
- ^Original poems and translation from theRune Poem PageArchived1999-05-01 at theWayback Machine.