Birth Rune
Twenty-four runes, twenty-four slices of the year. Give your birthday and see which rune holds the season you were born in. It needs only your birth date; nothing you enter is stored.
Your rune
How it works
This is a modern custom. The old sources record no birth runes: nothing in the surviving texts or inscriptions gives a rune to a person for the day they were born. Writers today use several different schemes. This page uses a simple one that you can check for yourself: the year is cut into 24 equal slices of about 15 days, starting at Yule (21 December), and the runes of the Elder Futhark are given out in their usual order, Fehu first and Othala last.
The three families the futhark is divided into (the ætts) are named for gods in modern books; the old sources do not give those names. The rune meanings are the ones used in the site's readings.
The whole year
The old texts and history of each rune are in the Lorebook.