r/runes

7.3K archived posts · Aug 2010 – Sep 2026

r/Runes: Your Reddit source for the runic alphabets & runology.

r/runes

Your source for the discussion of runes, the native script of the ancient Germanic language-speaking peoples.

Created Aug 6, 2010

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7.3KArchived posts

#Verið velkomin!

r/runes is a subreddit for academic discussion of historic runic alphabets & runology.

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#- Rules -

We have 7 rules in r/runes. Breaking any of these rules may force us to remove your comment, or post. Repeat or blatant rule breaking will result in a permanent ban.

Do NOT private message or use reddit chat to contact moderators about moderator actions. Only message the team via modmail. Directly messaging individual moderators may result in a ban.

Rule 0. Mod discretion always applies. We may remove content that is technically allowed under the rules if the team has good reason to believe it is detrimental to the community. Conversely, if something technically breaks the rules but we deem it beneficial to the community, we may choose to leave it up.

Please remember, you access this subreddit at the discretion of the mod team, and all rules are enforced at the mod team’s discretion. Moderators reserve the right to remove any content they deem harmful to the sub.

Rule 1. Don't Be a Jerk - Be Respectful. Follow Reddit's Rules and "Reddiquette".

This sub's core goal is to promote a friendly environment for all. Assume good faith and be kind to one another, we're all here to learn and discuss. Everyone should feel perfectly safe asking any on topic questions they may have.

We are lucky to enjoy an extremely friendly and supportive community, very seldom seeing serious disputes or fights. In the interests of maintaining this high standard, engaging in personal attacks or insults will not be tolerated. Disagreements are fine and indicative of a functioning discourse; name-calling and excessive nastiness are not. If you can't play nice, you're out of the pool.

Rule 2. No racism, promotion of pseudoscience, or bigotry.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, religious prejudices and other such bigotries have no place in this community and will not be tolerated. Usernames containing slurs, referring to acts of sexual violence, etc. are unacceptable here and will be banned on sight.

Rule 3. Produce quality sources for any and all historic claims.

r/runes is a subreddit for academic discussion of historic runic alphabets & runology. If you make a claim about the historic record, you must cite a reliable source backing your claim. This can be a notable runologist, a research paper, or something similar. This sub is not an echo chamber for misinformation.

Rule 4. No spam, low effort posts, unauthorized advertisements/(self) promotion, or NSFW content.

If you have something you'd like to promote, such as another subreddit, a podcast etc. you must contact the moderators before posting.

Rule 5. No translation requests.

This sub is intended for the scholastic discussion of runes, and can easily get cluttered with too many questions asking whether or not such-and-such is a rune or what it means etc. We ask that all questions regarding simple identification and translation be posted in r/RuneHelp instead of here, where kind and knowledgeable individuals will hopefully reply!

Rule 6. No modern religious topics.

We do not allow any discussion of modern religious topics here. r/runes is a subreddit that strives to be a community focused on learning, and studies runes from an etic perspective, meaning that we take a scholastic approach "from the perspective of one who does not participate in the culture being studied."

We ask that you post threads about modern religious practices elsewhere in more appropriate subs. Thank you!

Rule 7. No sigils or (early) modern symbols.

Despite of their enduring popularity in popculture, Icelandic sigils such as the végvísir and ægishjálmr do not originate in medieval Scandinavia. Both are in the tradition of early modern occultism arising from outside Scandinavia and were not documented before the 19th and the 17th century, respectively. As our focus lays on academic discussion of historic runic alphabets & runology, we ask that you post pictures and questions relating to these elsewhere, such as r/galdrastafir.

Further reading on how these symbols have little to no connection to the Norse or Viking period can be found here: ægishjálmr // vegvísir.

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