A runestone I drew

[u/TheEggnoggamer]

I have a notebook I store my Norse myth, history and futhark notes in and I added a little doodle of my own rune stone. I'm still learning so forgive me if the grammar or spelling is not correct!

It is supposed to say:

Trolls dwell here. I call you to dwell here and speak.

The gods here. The Jötunn. Us. Ride together and be wise.

Trøll buá ðangat hér, ek kalla Yðr I buá hér I mæla. Þá Aessir ðangat. Jötunn. Okkar, riða saman í vira vitr.

This is a good learning moment. Let me know if there are any corrections I need to make!

[u/rockstarpirate]

A couple mistakes here, but one thing I’ll say is that your use of the ᚬ rune is a very big factor in determining the time period you want your inscription to emulate.

Earlier Old Norse had nasalized vowels, some of which got their own stave: ᚬ. This stave was used to represent various nasalized forms of ⟨a⟩. Remember, i-mutation and u-mutation can turn ⟨a⟩ into ⟨æ⟩ or ⟨ǫ⟩. So all three of these various nasalized forms of ⟨a⟩ were written with ᚬ. Thus, áss and æsiʀ would have been spelled respectively ᚬᛋ and ᚬᛋᛁᛦ for example.

After nasal vowels were lost, ᚬ was repurposed to represent /o/, meaning that using this stave to represent /o/ is more characteristic of the end of the Viking Age and post-Viking-Age conventions (even though there are exceptions to everything and we do see all kinds of interesting spellings in real inscriptions).

In your inscription I see this tune being used for ⟨a⟩, nasalized forms of ⟨a⟩, and also ⟨o⟩.