Sub Legends
These runic legends were designed by Ulliam specifically for this set. Shout out to LeandreN for his original IC of an Elder Futhark set that gave me the idea, the layout of the sub legends is the same as his mockup. Since there are only 24 runes from Elder Futhark, we took the artistic liberty of adding two from Younger Futhark in order to fill up the alphas without any duplicate runes.
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Protip: the Kaunan rune (
ᚲ) would be better suited for the K key than C, and the Wunjo rune (
ᚹ) rune would be better suited for W than V. This is more in line with the phonemic values that these runes had in Proto-Norse: /k/ and /w/, respectively.
If you don't want to duplicate runes like XDA Canvas, GMK Norse and LeandreN's set did, you don't need to turn to the Younger Futhark for extra characters — there are actually two well-known variant characters in the Elder Futhark itself that can be used for this purpose:
ᛊ (Sowilo, variant of
ᛋ) and
ᛝ (Ingwaz, variant of
ᛜ).
I would put
ᛊ on S (since that was the primary S-shape earlier on),
ᛋ on C, and
ᛝ on V. Alternatively, you can keep
ᛋ on S, and put
ᛊ on C and
ᛝ on V. Your call. Just don't mix rune alphabets :D
Source: am nerd