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A vertical stave with two short arms angled up to the right.
Also known as: Fe rune, Cattle rune, F rune, Stave with two upward arms
Fehu is the first rune of the elder futhark and its name means cattle, and by extension movable wealth — livestock was the measure of property. Its attested meaning is that word; the divinatory meanings attached to it are a twentieth-century development.
Denotes the first rune of the elder futhark, transliterated f, whose name means cattle or movable wealth.
Contexts: History
Carries a name attested in the medieval rune poems, which gloss the runes with verses rather than with divinatory meanings.
Contexts: History
Is given divinatory meanings in modern rune-reading practice, which is a twentieth-century development with no attested medieval antecedent.
Rune divination as practised today dates from the twentieth century. The rune names and their poem glosses are medieval; the divinatory system attached to them is not, and the two should not be conflated.
Contexts: History
A vertical stave with two short strokes projecting from its upper portion, both angled upward to the right and parallel to each other.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.