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| Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Naudiz | Nȳd | Nauðr | ||
| "need, hardship" | ||||
| Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |
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| Unicode | ᚾ U+16BE | ᚾ U+16BE | ᚿ U+16BF | |
| Transliteration | n | |||
| Transcription | n | |||
| IPA | [n] | |||
| Position in rune-row | 10 | 8 | ||
*Naudiz is the reconstructedProto-Germanic name of then-runeᚾ, meaning "need, distress". In theAnglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued asᚾnyd, in theYounger Futhark asᚾ,Icelandicnaud andOld Norsenauðr. The correspondingGothic letter is 𐌽n, namednauþs.
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from theRhaetic's alphabet'sN.[1]
The valkyrieSigrdrífa inSigrdrífumál talks (toSigurd) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runesif you don’t want another man’s wifeto abuse your trust if you have a tryst.Carve them on the drinking-hornand on the back of your hand,and carve the rune ᚾ on your fingernail."
The rune is recorded in all threerune poems:
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