What is my birth rune?

The tables that hand out a rune by birthday divide the calendar by the futhark row, and different books draw the lines in different places. No source has a birth rune: the row is the order of an alphabet, not of a year. The tables themselves are modern.

Where this comes from

no source no text before the twentieth century ties a rune to a birthday

The half-month tables that assign each person a rune by birth date belong to the modern rune books. Nothing older carries them: not the poems, not the inscriptions, not Tacitus. The row itself is attested as an alphabet: the Kylver stone in Gotland lists all twenty-four runes in order. An alphabet has no birthdays.

Where all of this comes from

What the poems say

The poems go through the letters in the futhark order, one stanza each. No stanza mentions a month, a season of birth, or a person the rune belongs to. What they do say about each rune is here.

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