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Uruz
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Pronunciation: oo-rooze
Literal Meaning: Aurochs, later possibly water
Other Names: Ur, or possibly uram
Phonetic Value: U
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| Rune Poems |
| Anglo Saxon |
Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned, felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht. |
| Ur is fierce and greatly horned, a very dangerous beast, it fights with horns, a great traveler of the moors that is a bold wight. |
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| Norwegian |
Úr er af illu jarne; opt løypr ræinn á hjarne. |
| Úr comes from bad iron; the reindeer often races over the frozen snow. |
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| Icelandic |
Úr er skýja grátr ok skára þverrir ok hirðis hatr, umbre vísi. |
| Úr is when the cloud cries, it is the ruin of the hay-harvest, and hate of the shepherd. |
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Uruz is the rune of strength and resilience. The original meaning of Uruz was auroch, a now extinct wild ox.
This creature was long gone by the time the two latter rune poems were written, so the authors were completely unfamiliar with the word and replaced the original Uruz with Uram, a phonetically similar term in the contemporary vernacular meaning drizzle or dross.
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