Younger Futhark

Transform latin letters to Younger Futhark runes & vice versa

Deprecation notice:

This library has been discontinued in favor of Riimut. It contains same functionality for all main runic dialects. This library will also remain available in NPM and should keep working just fine.

Other runic alphabets:

• Elder Futhark
• Futhorc (Anglo-Saxon runes)
• Futhork (Medieval runes)
• Staveless Futhark

Install

yarn add younger-futhark

Usage

You can either transform runes to text, or text to runes.

Latin text to runes:

import { lettersToRunes } from 'younger-futhark'

// Old Norse text from Old Groms runestone.
const result = lettersToRunes('auk tani karþi kristna')

console.log(result) // ᛅᚢᚴ ᛏᛅᚾᛁ ᚴᛅᚱᚦᛁ ᚴᚱᛁᛋᛏᚾᛅ

Runes to latin text:

import { runesToLetters } from 'younger-futhark'

const result = runesToLetters('ᚠᚢᚦᛅᚱᚴ')

console.log(result) // fuþark

Style variants:

Younger Futhark contains two rune sets: long branch (danish) and short twig (Norwegian / Swedish)

import youngerFuthark from 'younger-futhark';

const letters = "aábcdðeéfghiíjklmnoópqrstþuúvwxyýzåäæöøǫþ";

// Comes with named functions per style.
const longBranch = youngerFuthark.lettersToLongBranchRunes(letters);
const shortTwig = youngerFuthark.lettersToShortTwigRunes(letters);

console.log(longBranch); // ᛅᛅᛒᛋᛏᚦᛁᛁᚠᚴᚼᛁᛁᛁᚴᛚᛘᚾᚢᚢᛒᚴᚱᛋᛏᚦᚢᚢᚢᚢᛋᚢᚢᛋᚢᛅᛅᚢᚢᚢᚦ
console.log(shortTwig);  // ᛆᛆᛒᛌᛐᚦᛁᛁᚠᚴᚽᛁᛁᛁᚴᛚᛘᚿᚢᚢᛒᚴᚱᛌᛐᚦᚢᚢᚢᚢᛌᚢᚢᛌᚢᛆᛆᚢᚢᚢᚦ

// Default function can also be called with variant enum to define the runeset.
const longBranchResult = youngerFuthark.lettersToRunes(letters, youngerFuthark.Variant.longBranch)
const shortTwigResult = youngerFuthark.lettersToRunes(letters, youngerFuthark.Variant.shortTwig)

About Younger Futhark

The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters. It was in use from about the 9th century onwards.