ELDER FUTHARK · TYR'S AETT · RUNE 21 OF 24
Laguz ᛚ
“Water” · the sound l
IN A READING
Emotion, intuition, flow.
REVERSED
Confusion, fear, poor judgement.
IN MAGIC
Intuition, dreams, emotional healing.
In the rune poems
Three medieval poems give a short verse to each rune's name, the oldest record of what the names meant. What they stress for Laguz: the sea seems endless to those who venture on it.
THE OLD ENGLISH RUNE POEM · ᛚ LAGU
Lagu byþ leodumlangsum geþuht,gif hi sculun neþanon nacan tealtumand hi sæyþaswyþe bregaþand se brimhengestbridles ne gym[eð].
Known only from George Hickes's printing of 1705; the manuscript burned in the Cotton library fire of 1731.
THE OLD ICELANDIC RUNE POEM · ᛚ LǪGR
Lögr er vellanda vatnok viðr ketillok glömmungr grund.
For the sixteen runes of the Younger Futhark, in manuscripts from about 1500.
The verses are given in their own languages, Old English from Bruce Dickins's edition (1915) as transcribed on Wikisource, Old Icelandic as normalised in Wikipedia's article on the rune poems. Square brackets mark words the editors restored.
In the later rows
Anglo-Saxon futhorc
ᛚLagu
Younger Futhark
ᛚLǫgr
Tyr's aett
The futhark falls into three rows of eight, the aettir. Laguz is number 5 of Tyr's aett:
Learn more in the lessons
- Galdr — The Chanted Spell · 16 min
- The Elder Futhark Runes · 15 min
- Runes in Magic · 15 min