Does this translate English into Old Norse runes?

No. It writes the letters you type as runes, one letter or pair at a time: a modern approximation, not a translation into Old Norse or any historical language, and not a historically certain spelling of a name. the becomes ᚦᛖ because th and e have runes in the map, whatever the word means. To see a name in runes, type its spelling; the rows beside the runes and the map under the tool show which rune each letter became.

How are c, q, v, x and y written in Elder Futhark?

The Elder Futhark has no rune for them, so this map uses stand-ins by sound: c and q as ᚲ (k), v as ᚹ (w), x as ᚲᛊ (k and s) and y as ᛃ (j). Each one is marked as a stand-in in the map, and you can change it: type y under Add or change an entry, pick ᛁ with the rune buttons and press Save entry, and y is written as ᛁ from then on, in the same place in the map.

How are th, ng and ei handled?

With Pairs as one rune, the default, th is ᚦ thurisaz, ng is ᛜ ingwaz and ei is ᛇ, U+16C7, which Unicode names RUNIC LETTER IWAZ EOH. Pairs are read greedily from the left, longest entry first, so thing is ᚦᛁᛜ and being is ᛒᛇᛜ, and a pair never joins across a space or punctuation. Choose Letter by letter and every letter is read on its own, so thing is ᛏᚺᛁᚾᚷ.

What happens to letters like ö, é or ß?

They are kept exactly as typed and flagged: marked in the runes, and listed under the text and in the Flagged cell, the first eight by name and the rest counted. To give one a rune, add it to the map, for example ö as ᛟ. Capitals use the same entry as small letters, and a letter typed as a base letter and a combining mark, such as o followed by U+0308, matches the same entry as ö.

Why do I see empty boxes instead of runes?

The runes are drawn with Noto Sans Runic, a font this page serves, and the page checks whether it loaded and says so under the tool. Where it has not loaded, your device's own fonts draw the runes, and a device with no font for the Runic block shows empty boxes. The text is still the right Unicode characters: Copy and the .txt file carry the same code points, which show as runes wherever a font with the Runic block is installed, though the shapes differ from font to font.

What goes between words in runic text?

Choose it under Between words: Space keeps each space as typed, ᛫ writes U+16EB RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION in place of each space, and ᛬ writes U+16EC RUNIC MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION. Tabs, line breaks, digits and punctuation such as commas and full stops are always kept as typed, so with ᛫ chosen, Ask, then go. becomes ᚨᛊᚲ,᛫ᚦᛖᚾ᛫ᚷᛟ.

What is in the Mapping .json file?

The convention, the separator, every map entry applied with its code points, the text as typed, the runes, and every piece in order: the text it came from, what it became, and whether it was mapped, flagged, kept as typed, a space, or an unpaired surrogate written as U+FFFD. Joining the from of every piece gives back your text exactly, spaces, line breaks and punctuation included.

Elder Futhark Rune Transliterator

Type Latin text and read it in Elder Futhark runes as you type, letter by letter, by a map printed in full under the tool: every entry shows its runes, code points and Unicode 17.0.0 names, and you can change an entry, add letters the map lacks or remove entries. th, ng and ei are one rune each (ᚦ, ᛜ, ᛇ), read greedily from the left, or choose Letter by letter to write every letter on its own. c and q are written as k, v as w, x as k and s, and y as j. A letter the map does not cover, such as ö, stays as typed and is flagged in the runes and in the counts. Each space becomes a space, ᛫ U+16EB or ᛬ U+16EC, and punctuation, digits and line breaks are kept as typed. Copy gives the runes as Unicode text, UTF-8 .txt saves them with no byte order mark, and Mapping .json records every piece with the text it came from, so the original can be rebuilt exactly. Nothing is uploaded; the text is not stored, and your map and the two settings are kept in this browser.

latinexample text: edit it or type your own

14 letters: 13 mapped, 1 flagged (ö)
kept as typed: 2 spaces and "!"

runes15 code points, 38 bytes UTF-8

ᛒᛃöᚱᚾ ᚦᛖ ᛊᛏᚱᛟᛜ!

The first pieces side by side: typed, written, code point and name
B	ᛒ	U+16D2	berkanan
j	ᛃ	U+16C3	jeran
ö	ö	kept	flagged: no rune in this map
r	ᚱ	U+16B1	raido
n	ᚾ	U+16BE	naudiz
th	ᚦ	U+16A6	thurisaz, 2 letters, 1 rune
e	ᛖ	U+16D6	ehwaz

then S t r o ng !

Letters mapped

13 of 14

Flagged

ö, kept as typed

Runes

UTF-8

15 code points, 38 bytes

Convention

Between words

Loading the rune font. Until it arrives, this device's own fonts draw the runes, and a font without the Runic block shows empty boxes.

Worked examples

a, f, th and ng from the published mapone letter or pair at a time
ᚨ U+16A8, ᚠ U+16A0, ᚦ U+16A6, ᛜ U+16DC, as the published map declares
Björnö is not in the published map
ᛒᛃöᚱᚾ: ö kept as typed and flagged, 4 of 5 letters mapped
Ask, then go.words split by U+16EB
ᚨᛊᚲ,᛫ᚦᛖᚾ᛫ᚷᛟ. and the mapping file rebuilds Ask, then go. with its comma, spaces and full stop

The map: 29 entries

Every entry the page applies. With Pairs as one rune, entries of two or three letters, such as th, ng and ei, are read before single letters, longest first and left to right; with Letter by letter they are skipped. Capitals use the same runes as small letters. A letter no entry covers is flagged and kept as typed: add it below, such as ö or æ, to give it a rune. The map is kept in this browser.

Latin	Runes	Code points	Unicode 17.0.0 name	Note
a	ᚨ	U+16A8	RUNIC LETTER ANSUZ A
b	ᛒ	U+16D2	RUNIC LETTER BERKANAN BEORC BJARKAN B
c	ᚲ	U+16B2	RUNIC LETTER KAUNA	stand-in: no c rune, written as k
d	ᛞ	U+16DE	RUNIC LETTER DAGAZ DAEG D
e	ᛖ	U+16D6	RUNIC LETTER EHWAZ EH E
f	ᚠ	U+16A0	RUNIC LETTER FEHU FEOH FE F
g	ᚷ	U+16B7	RUNIC LETTER GEBO GYFU G
h	ᚺ	U+16BA	RUNIC LETTER HAGLAZ H
i	ᛁ	U+16C1	RUNIC LETTER ISAZ IS ISS I
j	ᛃ	U+16C3	RUNIC LETTER JERAN J
k	ᚲ	U+16B2	RUNIC LETTER KAUNA
l	ᛚ	U+16DA	RUNIC LETTER LAUKAZ LAGU LOGR L
m	ᛗ	U+16D7	RUNIC LETTER MANNAZ MAN M
n	ᚾ	U+16BE	RUNIC LETTER NAUDIZ NYD NAUD N
o	ᛟ	U+16DF	RUNIC LETTER OTHALAN ETHEL O
p	ᛈ	U+16C8	RUNIC LETTER PERTHO PEORTH P
q	ᚲ	U+16B2	RUNIC LETTER KAUNA	stand-in: written as k
r	ᚱ	U+16B1	RUNIC LETTER RAIDO RAD REID R
s	ᛊ	U+16CA	RUNIC LETTER SOWILO S
t	ᛏ	U+16CF	RUNIC LETTER TIWAZ TIR TYR T
u	ᚢ	U+16A2	RUNIC LETTER URUZ UR U
v	ᚹ	U+16B9	RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W	stand-in: written as w
w	ᚹ	U+16B9	RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W
x	ᚲᛊ	U+16B2 U+16CA	RUNIC LETTER KAUNA + RUNIC LETTER SOWILO S	stand-in: written as k and s
y	ᛃ	U+16C3	RUNIC LETTER JERAN J	stand-in: written as j
z	ᛉ	U+16C9	RUNIC LETTER ALGIZ EOLHX
th	ᚦ	U+16A6	RUNIC LETTER THURISAZ THURS THORN	2 letters, 1 rune
ng	ᛜ	U+16DC	RUNIC LETTER INGWAZ	2 letters, 1 rune
ei	ᛇ	U+16C7	RUNIC LETTER IWAZ EOH	2 letters, 1 rune

Accuracy. A modern letter-for-rune approximation in the Elder Futhark, written with Unicode's Runic characters: it is not a translation into Old Norse and not a historically certain spelling of any name. Each letter or pair follows the map shown on this page, which you can edit, and letters the map does not cover, such as ö, are kept as typed and flagged. How the runes look depends on the font drawing them; the copied text and the UTF-8 file hold the same code points either way.

Common questions

Does this translate English into Old Norse runes?: No. It writes the letters you type as runes, one letter or pair at a time: a modern approximation, not a translation into Old Norse or any historical language, and not a historically certain spelling of a name. the becomes ᚦᛖ because th and e have runes in the map, whatever the word means. To see a name in runes, type its spelling; the rows beside the runes and the map under the tool show which rune each letter became.
How are c, q, v, x and y written in Elder Futhark?: The Elder Futhark has no rune for them, so this map uses stand-ins by sound: c and q as ᚲ (k), v as ᚹ (w), x as ᚲᛊ (k and s) and y as ᛃ (j). Each one is marked as a stand-in in the map, and you can change it: type y under Add or change an entry, pick ᛁ with the rune buttons and press Save entry, and y is written as ᛁ from then on, in the same place in the map.
How are th, ng and ei handled?: With Pairs as one rune, the default, th is ᚦ thurisaz, ng is ᛜ ingwaz and ei is ᛇ, U+16C7, which Unicode names RUNIC LETTER IWAZ EOH. Pairs are read greedily from the left, longest entry first, so thing is ᚦᛁᛜ and being is ᛒᛇᛜ, and a pair never joins across a space or punctuation. Choose Letter by letter and every letter is read on its own, so thing is ᛏᚺᛁᚾᚷ.
What happens to letters like ö, é or ß?: They are kept exactly as typed and flagged: marked in the runes, and listed under the text and in the Flagged cell, the first eight by name and the rest counted. To give one a rune, add it to the map, for example ö as ᛟ. Capitals use the same entry as small letters, and a letter typed as a base letter and a combining mark, such as o followed by U+0308, matches the same entry as ö.
Why do I see empty boxes instead of runes?: The runes are drawn with Noto Sans Runic, a font this page serves, and the page checks whether it loaded and says so under the tool. Where it has not loaded, your device's own fonts draw the runes, and a device with no font for the Runic block shows empty boxes. The text is still the right Unicode characters: Copy and the .txt file carry the same code points, which show as runes wherever a font with the Runic block is installed, though the shapes differ from font to font.
What goes between words in runic text?: Choose it under Between words: Space keeps each space as typed, ᛫ writes U+16EB RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION in place of each space, and ᛬ writes U+16EC RUNIC MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION. Tabs, line breaks, digits and punctuation such as commas and full stops are always kept as typed, so with ᛫ chosen, Ask, then go. becomes ᚨᛊᚲ,᛫ᚦᛖᚾ᛫ᚷᛟ.
What is in the Mapping .json file?: The convention, the separator, every map entry applied with its code points, the text as typed, the runes, and every piece in order: the text it came from, what it became, and whether it was mapped, flagged, kept as typed, a space, or an unpaired surrogate written as U+FFFD. Joining the from of every piece gives back your text exactly, spaces, line breaks and punctuation included.

A modern letter-for-rune approximation in the Elder Futhark, written with Unicode's Runic characters: it is not a translation into Old Norse and not a historically certain spelling of any name. Each letter or pair follows the map shown on this page, which you can edit, and letters the map does not cover, such as ö, are kept as typed and flagged. How the runes look depends on the font drawing them; the copied text and the UTF-8 file hold the same code points either way.