Thurisaz
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The rune expressing the ᚦ is called Thurs (Þurs "giant", see Jotun) in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems:
| Old Norwegian | English translation |
| Þurs vældr kvinna kvillu, kátr værðr fár af illu. | Giant causes anguish to women, misfortune makes few men cheerful. |
| Old Icelandic | |
| Þurs er kvenna kvöl ok kletta búi ok varðrúnar verr. Saturnus þengill. | Thurs is torture of women and cliff-dweller and husband of a giantess Saturn's thegn. |
By extension, it was also associated with the giant killer Thor and his hammer Mjollnir. [link]
In Anglo-Saxon England, the same rune was called Thorn and it survives as the letter Þ. The corresponding Gothic letter, , is called þiuþ. This lack of agreement makes it difficult to reconstruct the Elder Futhark rune's Proto-Germanic name. If thurs continues the original name, it may have been *þurisaz.
| Runes |
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| Elder Fuþark: ᚠ f | ᚢ u | ᚦ þ | ᚨ a | ᚱ r | ᚲ k | ᚷ g | ᚹ w | ᚺ h | ᚾ n | ᛁ i | ᛃ j |ᛇ ï | ᛈ p | ᛉ z | ᛊ s |ᛏ t | ᛒ b | ᛖ e | ᛗ m | ᛚ l | ᛜ ŋ | ᛞ d | ᛟ o |
| Futhorc | Younger Futhark | Rune poems | Runestones | Runology |
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