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A bind rune or bindrune ( is, bandrún) is a
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of two or more
runes Runes are the letter (alphabet), letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, a ...
. They are extremely rare in
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inscriptions, but are common in earlier (
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) and later (medieval) inscriptions.Enoksen, Lars Magnar (1998). ''Runor: historia, tydning, tolkning'', p. 84. Historiska Media, Falun. On some runestones, bind runes may have been ornamental and used to highlight the name of the carver.


Description

There are two types of bind runes. Normal bind runes are formed of two (or rarely three) adjacent runes which are joined together to form a single conjoined
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, usually sharing a common vertical stroke (see ''Hadda'' example below). Another type of bind rune called a same-stave rune, which is common in Scandinavian runic inscriptions but does not occur at all in Anglo-Saxon runic inscriptions, is formed by several runic letters written sequentially along a long common stemline (see ''þ=r=u=t=a=ʀ= =þ=i=a=k=n'' example shown above). In the latter cases the long bind rune stemline may be incorporated into an image on the rune stone, for example as a ship's mast on runestones Sö 158 at Ärsta and Sö 352 in Linga,
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, or as the waves under a ship on DR 220 in Sønder Kirkeby,
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.


Examples


Elder futhark

Examples found in
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. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Peri ...
inscriptions include: * Stacked
Tiwaz rune The ''t''-rune is named after Týr, and was identified with this god. The reconstructed Proto-Germanic name is *Tîwaz or *Teiwaz. Tiwaz rune was an ideographic symbol for a spear. Rune poems Tiwaz is mentioned in all three rune poems. In the I ...
s:
Kylver Stone The Kylver stone, listed in the Rundata catalog as runic inscription G 88, is a Swedish runestone which dates from about 400 AD. It is notable for its listing of each of the runes in the Elder Futhark. Description The Kylver stone was found durin ...
,
Seeland-II-C Seeland-II-C (Sjælland bracteate 2) is a Scandinavian bracteate from Zealand, Denmark, that has been dated to the Migration period (around 500 AD). The bracteate bears an Elder Futhark inscription which reads as: :ᚺᚨᚱᛁᚢᚺᚨᚺᚨᛁ ...
* Gebô runes combined with vowels:
Kragehul I Kragehul I ( DR 196 U) is a migration period lance-shaft found on Funen, Denmark. It is now in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. The spear shaft was found in 1877 during the excavation of the classic war booty s ...
* The syllable ''ing'' written as a ligature of
Isaz *Isaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the ''i''-rune , meaning " ice". In the Younger Futhark, it is called ''íss'' in Old Norse. As a rune of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is called ''is''. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌹 ...
and
Ingwaz Old Norse Yngvi , Old High German Ing/Ingwi and Old English Ingƿine are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr. Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz was the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones, or more ac ...
(the so-called "lantern rune").


Anglo-Saxon Futhorc

Bind runes are not common in Anglo-Saxon inscriptions, but double ligatures do sometimes occur, and triple ligatures may rarely occur. The following are examples of bind-runes that have been identified in Anglo-Saxon runic inscriptions: * The word ' is written with a ligatured double (''dd'') on the Thornhill III rune-stone * The name ' is written with a ligatured double (''dd'') on the Derbyshire bone plate * The word ' is written with a ligatured and (''er'') on some Northumbrian
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s * The Latin word ' is written as ' with a ligatured and (''mæ'') on the Whitby comb * The inscription ' ("ring I am called") is written with a ligatured and (''ha'') on the Wheatley Hill finger-ring * The names of the evangelists, ''Mat(t) eus)'' and ''Marcus'' are both written with a ligatured and (''ma'') on
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* The name ' may be written with a triple ligatured , and (''der'') on the Thornhill III rune-stone (this reading is not certain) * The word ' is written with a ligatured and (''fa'') on the right side of the
Franks Casket The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of baleen) chest from the early 8th century, now in the British Museum. The casket is densely decorated with knife-cut narrative scenes in ...
* Double ligatured runes (''er''), (''ha'') and (''dæ'') occur in the cryptic runic inscription on a silver knife mount at the
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* The word ''gægogæ'' on the
Undley bracteate The Undley bracteate is a 5th-century bracteate found in Undley Common, near Lakenheath, Suffolk. It bears the earliest known inscription that can be argued to be in Anglo-Frisian Futhorc (as opposed to Common Germanic Elder Futhark). The ima ...
is written with ligatured and (''gæ'') and and (''go'') * A ligatured and (''nt'') occurs in the word ''glæstæpontol'' on a cryptic inscription on a silver ring from Bramham Moor in West Yorkshire * A triple ligature , and (''dmo'') occurs on a broken amulet found near Stratford-upon-Avon in 2006. This is the only known certain Anglo-Saxon triple bind rune. There is possibly a faint , (''ed'') bind rune on the reverse of the amulet. * The name Ecgbeorht engraved on an armband from the Galloway Hoard is written ''eggbrect'' with ligatured and (''ec''), and the final (''t'') added above the final letter * The otherwise unattested Anglo-Saxon name Eadruf is inscribed on a gold Latin cross pendant, with ligatured and (''dr'') and probable ligatured and (''ea'')


Modern use

* The
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logo merges the runes analogous to the modern
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letters ''h'' and ''b''; ( Hagall) and (
Berkanan Berkanan is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the ''b'' rune , meaning "birch". In the Younger Futhark it is called Bjarkan in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems. In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem it is called ''beorc'' ("birch" or " popla ...
) together, forming a bind rune. The two letters form the initials 'H B', alluding to the
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king and
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raider
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, for whom Bluetooth was named. * The former logo of
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featured a combination of a *tiwaz rune () and a *sowilo rune . This logo caused controversy as the runes were so combined that a part of the logo became very similar to the insignia of the .


Gallery

Image:Rathulf.jpg, The a and the þ runes in ligature on the
Rök runestone The Rök runestone ( sv, Rökstenen; Ög 136) is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic inscription in stone. It can now be seen beside the church in Rök, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland, Sweden. It is cons ...
Image:Skibari.jpg, The s and k runes in ligature in the Old Norse word ' ("sailor") on the Tuna Runestone in
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Image:Sønder Kirkby bindrune.jpg, A bind rune for the word ' on the
Sønder Kirkeby Runestone The Sønder Kirkeby Runestone, listed as runic inscription DR 220 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered in Sønder Kirkeby, which is located about 5 kilometers east of Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. Descriptio ...
in Denmark File:Bluetooth.svg,
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logo (20th/21st-century bind rune of ( Hagall) and ( Bjarkan)


See also

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Cipher runes Cipher runes, or cryptic runes, are the cryptographical replacement of the letters of the runic alphabet. Preservation The knowledge of cipher runes was best preserved in Iceland, and during the 17th–18th centuries, Icelandic scholars produce ...
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Pseudo-runes Pseudo-runes are letters that look like Germanic runes but are not true ancient runes. The term is mostly used of incised characters that are intended to imitate runes. Pseudo-runes in this sense are difficult to distinguish from cipher runes, whi ...
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List of runestones There are about 3,000 runestones in Scandinavia (out of a total of about 6,000 runic inscriptions). p. 38. The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: The majority is found in Sweden, estimated at between 1,700 and 2,500 (depending o ...


References


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Nordic bind runes
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