The Elder Futhark rune gives rise to the Anglo-Frisian ᛄ /j/, named gēr /jeːr/, and ᛡ /io/, named ior, and to the Younger Futhark ár rune ᛅ, which stands for /a/, as the /j/ phoneme disappears in late Proto-Norse. Note that ᛆ also can be a variation of dotted …

Ior is the rune of the World Serpent, that beast born of Loki and Angrboda, a giantess who gave Loki three children, one of which was the Midgard Serpent, Jormungandr. As it is one of the much later Anglo-Saxon runes, and it’s rune poem is odd, describing a …

2016年1月29日 · Ior is the rune of the World Serpent, which is found in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc set of runes (The Futhorc is 33 runes – the 24 runes from the Elder Futhark with an additional aett +1). One of my teachers associates Ior with the keyword of BOUNDARIES.

These are runes ior for ‘io’, cweorþ for ‘q’ and stan for ’st’. A special place among Anglo-Saxon Futhorc inscriptions belongs to the 8th century Ruthwell Cross with 320 runes, containing portions of the poem known as The Dream of the Rood preserved in the so-called Vercelli Book.

2010年10月1日 · Ior is the rune for October, which I find to be fitting and appropriate. In most of modern European lore (starting from the fall of Rome forward) the time following the autumnal equinox until the first part of spring, was a time when the spirits of the dead became more active. Some see it as the veil between worlds opening.

Ior is a later variation of the Jera phoneme from the Elder Futhark. Ior is one of the characters created to compensate for the phonetic sounds not originally found in early Germanic languages.

2011年11月25日 · The rune of Iormungand is Ior, from the Fourth Aett of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc; it expresses many of the attributes of Iormungand, but also introduces other sides to the serpent's nature.

2014年1月11日 · Raven Kaldera sees Ior as being the rune of Jormungander, the World-Serpent of Norse mythology. He considers it a rune of boundaries and of the liminal space that a boundary represents, part of two things at the same time.

2014年2月8日 · Ior symbolizes dual natures, evident in the amphibious habits of many water beasts (like the World Serpent). In Norse mythology the World Serpent (or Midgard serpent) known as Jormungandr encircled the world in the ocean's abyss biting its own tail.

2010年5月21日 · As the poem describes, “Ior is a river-fish, and yet it always feeds on land” there is the implication that things of the river, stay there, but yet this creature lives in the both the river, and can move onto land. A clear demarcation, but yet Ior is able to cross both.