Haglaz
Rune
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*Haglaz or *Hagalaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the h-rune áº, meaning "hail" (the precipitation).
| Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Hag(a)laz | Hægl | Hagall | ||||
| "hail" | ||||||
| Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |||
  |  |  | ||||
| Unicode |
| á¼ U+16BC | á½ U+16BD | |||
| Transliteration | h | |||||
| Transcription | h | |||||
| IPA | [h] | |||||
| Position in rune-row | 9 | 7 | ||||
In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as hægl, and, in the Younger Futhark, as á¼ hagall. The corresponding Gothic letter is ð· 
h, named hagl.
The Elder Futhark letter has two variants, single-barred Ạand double-barred á». The double-barred variant is found in continental inscriptions, while Scandinavian inscriptions have exclusively the single-barred variant.
The Anglo-Frisian futhorc in early inscriptions has the Scandinavian single-barred variant. From the 7th century, it is replaced by the continental double-barred variant, the first known instances being found on a Harlingen solidus (ca. 575â625), and in the Christogram on St Cuthbert's coffin.
Haglaz is recorded in all three rune poems:
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