Everything about Ear Rune totally explained
The
Ear ᛠ rune of the
Anglo-Saxon futhorc is a late addition to the alphabet. It is, however, still attested from epigraphical evidence, notably the
Thames scramasax, and its introduction thus can't postdate the
9th century. It is transliterated as
ea, and the Anglo-Saxon
rune poem glosses it as
» ᛠ byþ egle eorla gehwylcun, / ðonn[e] fæstlice flæsc onginneþ, / hraw colian, hrusan ceosan / blac to gebeddan; bleda gedreosaþ,/ wynna gewitaþ, wera geswicaþ.
" The
ear is horrible to every knight, / when the corpse quickly begins to cool / and is laid in the bosom of the dark earth. / Prosperity declines, happiness passes away / and covenants are broken."
suggesting a meaning of "grave". The name
ear may originally just echo
ior, the name of the rune just preceding it, itself derived from
ger "year, harvest".
However,
Jacob Grimm in his 1835
Teutonic Mythology attached a deeper significance to the name. He notes that the
ear rune is simply a
Tyr rune with two barbs attached to it and suggests that
Tir and
Ear, Old High German
Zio and
Eor, were two names of the same god. He finds the name in the toponym of
Eresburg (
*Eresberc) in
Westphalia, in Latin
Mons martis. Grimm thus suggests that the Germans had adopted the name of Greek
Ares as an epithet of their god of war, and
Eresberc was literally an
Areopagus.
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