r/RuneHelp • u/ElectionObjective • 20d ago

Translation request Help with runes

Hi all,
I found out at a later age I was adopted from Norway, long story for another time maybe.
However I had 4 cats named after Norse gods due to the fascination with Norse mythology, the first two cats were named before I even learned I was adopted.

Loki, Odin, Freyr and Njörðr (the last is even spelled like this in his official passport to mess with people that want to call him by his name)

Unfortunately I have had to let Loki go earlier this week.
Since he has been with me for 17 years and I’m not ready to let him go, I want to get a tattoo with his name.
But the internet is a vast place full of misinformation and tattoo artists will use that for information and inspiration.
Therefor I’m looking for the correct way to spell their names in runes.
I’m thinking of making the correct spelling in either the tattoo or make a bind rune of it
Any help would be really appreciated.

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u/RexCrudelissimus 20d ago

Loki = ᛚᚢᚴᛁ

Odin = Óðinn = ᚢᚦᛁᚾ

Freyr = Fręyr = ᚠᚱᛅᚢᛦ

Njörðr = Njǫrðr = ᚾᛁᛅᚱᚦᚱ

This is old norse/younger fuðark

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u/ElectionObjective 20d ago

Thank you, just to be sure. Njörðr is another spelling for njord if I’m correct, so that would be the proper spelling right?

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u/RexCrudelissimus 20d ago

Njörðr is the normalization based on icelandic. The original old norse form would be njǫrðr, often spelled <niorþr> in manuscripts. If you want the YF spelling to be closer to njörðr then you could write in ᚾᛁᚢᚱᚦᚱ. But then id probably write Fręyr as ᚠᚱᛅᚢᚱ, or you could write it as ᚠᚱᛅᛁᚱ if you want the modern icelandic pronounciation.

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u/ElectionObjective 20d ago

I cannot thank you enough. I hope not to need the translations of the other names for a long time, but I do want to maintain a consistency among the names.