The Norwegian rune poem
Ýr er vetrgrønstr viða; vænt er, er brennr, at sviða.
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
The last rune in the row, and the strangest: it writes an r sound that only occurred at the end of words, and that was on its way out. The rune row preserved a sound the language was losing.
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