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ᛖᛁᛖᛋ ᛒᚱᛁᚷᚻᛏ,

ᚳᛚᚪᚹᛋ ᛋᚻᚪᚱᛈ,

ᛏᚪᛁᛚ ᚻᛖᛚᛞ ᚻᛁᚷᚻ.

ᚷᚩ ᚳᛖᛖᚾᛚᛁ ᛁᚾᛏᚩ ᚦᛖ ᛘᛁᛋᛏ, ᚩᛚᛞ ᚹᚪᚱᚱᛡᚱ.

ᚠᚪᛚᚻᚪᛚᛚᚪ ᚹᚪᛁᛏᛋ ᚠᚩᚱ ᛁᚩᚢ.

Eyes bright,

claws sharp,

tail held high.

Go keenly into the mist, old warrior.

Valhalla waits for you.



You wrote english in the elder futhark, tediously or with some letter by letter translation tool?


Looks like this is a bit of a rabbit hole.

https://wetnosespetsitting.com/coping-with-the-loss-of-a-pet...

Has a copy of this, but it was attributed to a reddit post

https://old.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/hmyago/rest_in_peace_...

But the runes were not on that post.

Searching the runes (which kind of sounds badass) led to

https://imgur.com/gallery/rest-easy-boy-4OYHNTn from May, 2022 https://www.instagram.com/kaitbernhardt/p/CUvyLLEMaNN/ from October 2021

But the trail seems to go cold there. The lore seems to suggest that it originated on Reddit but it probably got lost in the purge when Reddit exiled non-official clients.


Someone posted it to me when my cat passed and I saved it because I thought it was lovely.


Are the runes used on the common /r/cats copy pasta accurate?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/kfeq3m/a...

TLDR: Yes

Does anyone know what kind of runes these are? I mean, I know they're norse, but are there different kinds of norse runes? I've had hard time figuring that out. Furthermore, are the runes accurate to the English translation below?

yes, the runes and the translation seem to match.

runes were not only used for norse. english also used runes before the latin alphabet arrived


My Germanic Linguistics teacher in undergrad and grad school was really interesting; this book considers many things you just asked above.

Elmer Antonsen, A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions

https://a.co/d/eTV2tFs




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