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Laguz
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Laguz or Laukaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the l-rune ᛚ, laguz meaning "water" or "lake" and laukaz meaning "leek". In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called lagu "ocean". In the Younger Futhark it is called lögr "waterfall" in Icelandic and logr "water" in Norse. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌻 l, named lagus. The rune is identical in shape to the letter l in the Raetic alphabet.
The "leek" hypothesis is based not on the rune poems, but rather on early inscriptions where the rune has been hypothesized to abbreviate laukaz, a symbol of fertility, see Bülach fibula.
In "modern runic discourse" such as Kenneth Meadows,[citation needed] Laguz as "flow" and "leek"[1] has come to signify spiritual energy and the Norse spiritual kinship and metaphysical concept of lifeblood.[2] The flow of lifeblood that is core to the layers upon layers of the leek is the quintessential vitalism, the metaphorical marrow[3] that energises each of the runes and by metaphorical extension, all that which they govern.[citation needed]
- ^ The leek as a living metaphor of embedded and nested layers or planes shares in the symbolism of the onion. Refer glass onion, Cromniomancy and dovetail joint: wood joinery was endemic to a seafaring peoples and forded them the propensity to ford the flow.
- ^ For a discussion of the rites of lifeblood refer Blót, a Norse sacramental feast.
- ^ Marrow as metaphor: Bones and skeletons in iconography and world symbolism may be understood as metaphorical of the unseen or mysterious structure and design that holds, orders and contains the patterns of being extant and extinct in the Universe. By metaphorical extension, marrow is the quintessential at the core of the hidden structure: Mystery or Wellspring.[citation needed]
| Runes | see also: Rune poems · Runestones · Runology · Runic divination | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elder Fuþark: | ᚠ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚨ | ᚱ | ᚲ | ᚷ | ᚹ | ᚺ | ᚾ | ᛁ | ᛃ | ᛇ | ᛈ | ᛉ | ᛊ | ᛏ | ᛒ | ᛖ | ᛗ | ᛚ | ᛜ | ᛞ | ᛟ | ||||||
| Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc: | ᚠ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚩ o | ᚱ | ᚳ c | ᚷ ȝ | ᚹ | ᚻ | ᚾ | ᛁ | ᛄ | ᛇ eo | ᛈ | ᛉ x | ᛋ | ᛏ | ᛒ | ᛖ | ᛗ | ᛚ | ᛝ | ᛞ | ᛟ œ | ᚪ a | ᚫ æ | ᚣ y | ᛠ ea | ||
| Younger Fuþark: | ᚠ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚬ ą | ᚱ | ᚴ | ᚼ | ᚾ | ᛁ | ᛅ a | ᛋ | ᛏ | ᛒ | ᛘ | ᛚ | ᛦ ʀ | ||||||||||||||
| transliteration: | f | u | þ | a | r | k | g | w · | h | n | i | j | ï | p | z | s · | t | b | e | m | l | ŋ | d | o | ||||||
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