Haglaz
Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |||
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*Hag(a)laz | Hægl | Hagall | ||||
"hail" | ||||||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |||
Unicode |
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ᚼ U+16BC
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ᚽ U+16BD
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Transliteration | h | |||||
Transcription | h | |||||
IPA | [h] | |||||
Position in rune-row |
9 | 7 |
*Haglaz or *Hagalaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the h-rune ᚺ, meaning "hail" (the precipitation).
In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as hægl, and, in the Younger Futhark, as ᚼ hagall. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌷 h, named hagl.
The Elder Futhark letter has two variants, single-barred ᚺ and double-barred ᚻ. The double-barred variant is found in continental inscriptions, while Scandinavian inscriptions have exclusively the single-barred variant.
The Anglo-Frisian futhorc in early inscriptions has the Scandinavian single-barred variant. From the 7th century, it is replaced by the continental double-barred variant, the first known instances being found on a Harlingen solidus (ca,. 575–625), and in the Christogram on St Cuthbert's coffin.
Haglaz is recorded in all three rune poems:
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