Norse rune for granite

[ToddG]

Does anyone know the Norse rune for granite? I want to get a tattoo.

[TheTrevor]

I've never seen one for granite, specifically -- pretty sure my Viking ancestors weren't that specific with regards to different kinds of rocks. If you want "granite" you'll probably have to transliterate the word and string together multiple runes.

There is one for "stone", though.

https://norsespirit.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/anglosaxonrunes.png

Also, glad to see you back in the land of the living. Hope you're doing OK, was worried after the recent unpleasantness.

[nycnoob]

http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/write_in_runes.html

Here is a link to some web translation software which is better then using the above table and doing it yourself.

But now I am really worried about you Todd, a tattoo? Are you feeling OK? is this how it always begins? a bit of "tactical response syndrome" is a goatee next?

[TheTrevor]

Does not appear to be working. Tried it in Chrome and Safari.

[nycnoob]

http://www.vikingsofbjornstad.com/Old_Norse_Dictionary_E2N.shtm#g


rock; mountain bjarg
rock sker
rock on which waves break brim-sker
rocks grjótbjǫrg
stone, rock steinn
stones grjót

stinkfart meinfretr

[LOKNLOD]

You can use the one for stone, and we'll just all take it for granite.

[PPGMD]

I'm having flashbacks to high school latin to class. I am trying to make phallic references with the Norse runes.

[Mr_White]

It worked for me on Firefox.

[Don Gwinn]

Doesn't look like Tamara' s around, so I'll say it: I hereby declare Locknload the Winner of the Internet for Thursday, January 16th. Good luck tomorrow, everybody.

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[RoyGBiv]

It worked for me on Firefox.

me too.. not sure if you were looking for a symbol or spelling "transliteration"... I'm dubious of this result.

FWIW


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/17/0ht5.jpg

[Mr_White]

me too.. not sure if you were looking for a symbol or spelling "transliteration"... I'm dubious of this result.

FWIW

I don't know if it's right either, but that's what I get too. I get different results capitalizing the first letter, and it won't give a result for all caps.

[ToddG]

How about Latin?

[BaiHu]

Does anyone know the Norse rune for granite? I want to get a tattoo.

Damn! That is one big stone you must've passed :-P


Doesn't look like Tamara' s around, so I'll say it: I hereby declare Locknload the Winner of the Internet for Thursday, January 16th. Good luck tomorrow, everybody.

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Agreed.



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[Chuck Haggard]

Latin?

I know a guy. Stand by..........

[Totem Polar]

Doesn't look like Tamara' s around, so I'll say it: I hereby declare Locknload the Winner of the Internet for Thursday, January 16th. Good luck tomorrow, everybody.


That.

[Chefdog]

You can use the one for stone, and we'll just all take it for granite.

Nice. :D

[Chuck Haggard]

Cut and paste from a message reply I sent to a friend who speaks Latin;


Actually the word "granite" comes from the Latin word "granum" (long 'a') which means, er, grain! You know, granitic stone composed of feldspar, quartz and arthoclase. New Hampshire's full of it! LOL!

So granum is the Latin

[Mr_White]

http://www.latin-dictionary.net/search/english/granite

This thing says 'granite = granitum' ('graniti' plural.)

[Nephrology]

http://www.latin-dictionary.net/search/english/granite

This thing says 'granite = granitum' ('graniti' plural.)

That cannot be correct. if granite was granitum, the plural would be granita. However, I don't see an entry for granitum on perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=exact&lookup=granitum&lang=la) and so I am suspicious of the definition provided by your website.

It's possible that the romans did not have a term for granite. I can do a little more digging.

edit: there is a Latin wiki entry that suggests it is granitum...

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granitum_(lapis)

However the citation that they use for the definition is from a book written in 1820, so it might be a post-hoc word.

[Matt O]

Not sure if this is a serious thread... :confused:

I generally advise not getting a tattoo in a language other than one you yourself speak. Though admittedly you won't likely run into terribly many rune-literate and Latin speaking people on a daily basis, so those probably represent two of the safer non-English options. But I have run into quite a few people with Chinese tattoos that don't mean anything close to what they think it means, ranging from amusing gibberish to tattoos where the owner would be embarrassed if they knew the actual meaning.

[Erik]

Maybe you should consider a pictograph. http://geology.com/rocks/pictures/granite-fine-grained-380.jpg

[Don Gwinn]

Or . . . . .

http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110622061955/marveldatabase/images/a/ab/1238854-the_heroic_age_iamannewavengers_05.jpg

[Mr_White]

That cannot be correct. if granite was granitum, the plural would be granita. However, I don't see an entry for granitum on perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=exact&lookup=granitum&lang=la) and so I am suspicious of the definition provided by your website.

It's possible that the romans did not have a term for granite. I can do a little more digging.

edit: there is a Latin wiki entry that suggests it is granitum...

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granitum_(lapis)

However the citation that they use for the definition is from a book written in 1820, so it might be a post-hoc word.

I don't at all doubt that that website (random one I found) could be wrong.

Wish I had something to contribute on the singular/plural point, but I don't remember any of the Latin I learned in high school.

[Don Gwinn]

OR . . . .
http://classroomclipart.com/images/gallery/Maps/US_Outline_Maps/new_hampshire_outline_map.jpg

[NickA]

Random tattoo post from Vegas followed by radio silence is worrisome.
Can the PF SAR team please check the roof of his hotel, and also make sure Mike Tyson isn't missing a tiger?

[PPGMD]

Random tattoo post from Vegas followed by radio silence is worrisome.
Can the PF SAR team please check the roof of his hotel, and also make sure Mike Tyson isn't missing a tiger?

My money is on a drunken face tattoo.

[David Armstrong]

Not sure if this is a serious thread... :confused:

I generally advise not getting a tattoo in a language other than one you yourself speak. Though admittedly you won't likely run into terribly many rune-literate and Latin speaking people on a daily basis, so those probably represent two of the safer non-English options. But I have run into quite a few people with Chinese tattoos that don't mean anything close to what they think it means, ranging from amusing gibberish to tattoos where the owner would be embarrassed if they knew the actual meaning.
Thta goes far beyond tattoos. Envision, if you will, the aftermath of memorizing what your friend swore was Turkish for "You are very lovely" and upon saying it to your girl's mother only then finding it actually translated as "Obviously you have sex in the gutter with goats."
Special note: Turks have absolutely no sense of humor.:(

[LHS]

Not sure if this is a serious thread... :confused:

I generally advise not getting a tattoo in a language other than one you yourself speak. Though admittedly you won't likely run into terribly many rune-literate and Latin speaking people on a daily basis, so those probably represent two of the safer non-English options. But I have run into quite a few people with Chinese tattoos that don't mean anything close to what they think it means, ranging from amusing gibberish to tattoos where the owner would be embarrassed if they knew the actual meaning.

Back in the early days of this trend, a kid at my high school got a tattoo of a kanji that he thought said 'Warrior'. We happened to have a Taiwanese kid, who took one look at it and laughed. He said "No no, it no say 'warrior'. It say 'wheat'. Dumbass white boy, stick to Engrish."

[BaiHu]

How about something majestic from the 1800's??

2062

It's got Gibraltar, ships that could be made to be seen as a pirate's and then....a man, on a loan ship, standing like Cpt Morgan looking exactly like:

2063

[Drang]

...But I have run into quite a few people with Chinese tattoos that don't mean anything close to what they think it means, ranging from amusing gibberish to tattoos where the owner would be embarrassed if they knew the actual meaning.

I remember just enough of the Chinese characters they made Korean linguists /l/e/a/r/n/ memorize to get a good laugh at the pretentious hipsters and their "kanji" tattoos. (Hint: If you want to impress us, start by not referring to Chinese characters with a Japanese word...)
Here in Seattle, it's kind of a target rich environment, because someone was selling baseball caps (in homage to former Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki) with the characters for "Sea Soldier" -- "Marine" -- on them...

[nycnoob]

Rune Tattoo's

WoW! Is this what you are looking for Todd?

http://twilightandfire.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/tattoo2.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/104/0/5/rune_tattoo_by_Blotsven.jpg

http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/120/b/8/Rune_tattoo_2_by_Blotsven.jpg
"Thor staat me bij" means: Thor stands by my side!

http://www.tattoo.dk/eriks/handtattoo/Martin5195-600.jpg

[JMS]

You said...


stinkfart

http://imageshack.com/a/img802/2623/m5qj.gif (https://imageshack.com/i/mam5qjg)

[nycnoob]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/12/ancient-viking-code-deciphered-runologist-jotunvillur

Ancient Viking code deciphered for the first time
Runologist cracks the mysterious jötunvillur code – and discovers medieval 'text messages'