Bindrune

Combine the runes of a name or a short phrase into one device by overlaying or joining their staves.

Origin

Scandinavia

Era

Medieval

Summary

Combine the runes of a name or a short phrase into one device by overlaying or joining their staves.

Steps

Write the name or phrase and transliterate it into the Elder Futhark.Remove repeated runes where the tradition would (the historical inscriptions vary; state your rule).Overlay the staves on a single vertical, or join them at their terminals, until they read as one mark.Keep the mark's proportions — a bindrune that is only a word written vertically is a monogram, not a bindrune.

Requires

the name or phraseRunes.jsona transliteration

Deterministic

true

Renderable

Mechanical for the rune selection and the transliteration; the combination is a design choice among a small number of valid joins.

Caveats

Historical bindrunes are overwhelmingly practical ligatures — abbreviations and names on stones — and the 'bind the runes to bind the intent' reading is modern. The corpus keeps the historical attestation and the modern use apart in the note field rather than averaging them.

Keywords

Runeselder futharkLigatureNorse