Raido

Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English	Old Norse
	*Raiđō	Rād	Reið
	"ride, journey"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc	Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᚱ U+16B1
Transliteration	r
Transcription	r
IPA	[r]
Position in rune-row	5

Not to be confused with Radio.

*Raidō "ride, journey" is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the r- rune of the Elder Futhark ᚱ. The name is attested for the same rune in all three rune poems, Old Norwegian Ræið Icelandic Reið, Anglo-Saxon Rad, as well as for the corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet 𐍂 r, called raida. The shape of the rune may be directly derived from Latin R.

Rune Poem:[1]	English Translation:
Old Norwegian ᚱ Ræið kveða rossom væsta; Reginn sló sværðet bæzta.	Riding is said to be the worst thing for horses; Reginn forged the finest sword.
Old Icelandic ᚱ Reið er sitjandi sæla ok snúðig ferð ok jórs erfiði. iter ræsir.	Riding is of sitting a blessing and swift journey and horses toiling
Anglo-Saxon ᚱ Rad byþ on recyde rinca gehwylcum sefte ond swiþhwæt, ðamðe sitteþ on ufan meare mægenheardum ofer milpaþas.	Riding seems easy to every warrior while he is indoors and very courageous to him who traverses the high-roads on the back of a stout horse.

References

1. Original poems and translation from the Rune Poem Page.

External links

• The Futhark (ancientscripts.com)
• Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150-700 by J. H. Looijenga (dissertation, Groningen University)