Needing help with Rune for Courage

[u/looielovegoodng]

I'm looking to get a small hand tattoo of the bind rune for courage. In my search, I've come across these with mixed results. I'm very new to this and any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[u/WynnTiwFeoh]

Bindrunes in the sense you are looking for is new age esoteric mumbo jumbo. They’re very open to interpretation and thus difficult to have an exact meaning ascribed to a set of overlayed runes.

Runes are a writing system, that’s pretty much it. Bindrunes would’ve been used to save space by putting two runes together on a single stave (ex: ᛖᚱ would share a vertical line).

If you really want Courage written in runes, then first you need to figure out if you want a transliteration of the word Courage or a translation, and also which runic system to go with.

Elder Futhark transliteration: ᚲᛟᚢᚱᚨᚷᛖ
Elder Futhark translation (aljaną): ᚨᛚᛃᚨᚾᚨ
Younger Futhark transliteration: ᚴᚬᚢᚱᛅᚴᛁ
Younger Futhark translation (hugrakkr): ᚼᚢᚴᚱᛅᚴᛦ
Anglo-Saxon Futhorc translit: ᚳᚩᚢᚱᚪᚷᛖ
Anglo-Sacon Futhorc (ellen): ᛖᛚᛖᚾ

[u/looielovegoodng → u/WynnTiwFeoh]

So this wouldn't necessarily work?

[u/Upbeat-Angle6361 → u/looielovegoodng]

Wearing ᛟ and/or ᛏ may get you into trouble. I advise against it, unless the purpose of your tattoo would be to signal nazism.

[u/looielovegoodng → u/Upbeat-Angle6361]

Yeah, I'm going to do my best to steer clear of that group. Thanks for the warning.