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Rune 2 of 16

úr – The Ur rune

Sound
u, o, y, w
Meaning
dross, drizzle

The Norwegian rune poem

Úr er af illu jarne; opt løypr ræinn á hjarne.

Dross comes from bad iron; often the reindeer runs on frozen crust.

The Norwegian rune poem is from the 1200s and has one verse per rune. The original is in the public domain; the translations are our own.

Commentary

In the Norwegian rune poem, úr is the dross left over after smithing. The Icelandic poem reads the same rune as drizzle — fine rain. The name was not fixed.

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