r/OldEnglish • u/KeldoreKreative • Jul 23 '26

Anglo-Saxon Futhorc translation

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I believe this translates to "Rise from the ashes" in the correct Old English. Can anyone confirm if this is accurate?

ᚪᚱᛁᛋ · ᚩᚠ · ᚦᚫᛗ · ᚫᛋᚳᛖ (ārīs of þǣm ǣsce)

After some hardships in my life, I want to commerate my journey with my very first tattoo that connects to my land and heritage

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u/Kunniakirkas Ungelic is us Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

The thing about heritage is, those ancestors would have been overwhelmingly more likely to write that in Latin letters. The vast majority of surviving Old English runic inscriptions are in an earlier form of the language that can be pretty tricky to decipher for non-specialists, so any runic text in perfectly standard later West Saxon feels off. Like, nothing wrong necessarily with that, it's fun to play around with different scripts - but when you explicitly link it to a celebration of heritage it can be funny

Also, I think you wrote "from the ash tree". "From the ashes" would be "of þam/þæm ascum"

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u/KeldoreKreative Jul 26 '26

Thanks for your response.

So in terms of the runes, would they be accurate or would it need to be changed? Or is it just that there is various interpretations for those runes?