Ác

Pronunciation: ack
Literal Meaning: Oak
Other Names: None
Phonetic Value: A
Rune Poems
Anglo Saxon Ác byþ on eorþan elda bearnum flæsces fodor, fereþ gelome ofer ganotes bæþ; garsecg fandaþ hwæþer ac hæbbe æþele treowe.
The oak fattens the flesh of pigs for the children of men. Often it traverses the gannet's bath, and the ocean proves whether the oak keeps faith in it’s noble troth.
 
Norwegian Not listed.
 
Icelandic Not listed.


Ác means oak, and is a rune of resources.

Ác and Æsc were later divisions of the Ansuz phoneme from the Elder Futhark. Ác is one of the characters created to compensate for the phonetic sounds not originally found in early Germanic languages.

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