Naudiz

*Naudiz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the n-rune á¾, meaning "need, distress". In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as á¾ nyd, in the Younger Futhark as á¾, Icelandic naud and Old Norse nauÃ°r. The corresponding Gothic letter is ð½ n, named nauÃ¾s.

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Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English	Old Norse
	*Naudiz	NÃ½d	NauÃ°r
	"need, hardship"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc	Younger Futhark
Shape
Unicode	á¾ U+16BE		á¾ U+16BE	á¿ U+16BF
Transliteration	n
Transcription	n
IPA	[n]
Position in rune-row	10		8

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The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N.^[1]

The valkyrie SigrdrÃfa in SigrdrÃfumÃ¡l talks (to Sigurd) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runes if you donât want another manâs wife to abuse your trust if you have a tryst. Carve them on the drinking-horn and on the back of your hand, and carve the rune á¾ on your fingernail."

The rune is recorded in all three rune poems:

Rune Poem:^[2]	English Translation:
Old Norwegian á¾ NauÃ°r gerer nÃ¦ppa koste; nÃ¸ktan kÃ¦lr Ã froste.	Constraint gives scant choice; a naked man is chilled by the frost.
Old Icelandic á¾ NauÃ° er ÃÃ½jar Ã¾rÃ¡ ok Ã¾ungr kostr ok vÃ¡ssamlig verk. opera niflungr.	Constraint is grief of the bond-maid and state of oppression and toilsome work.
Old English á¾ Náºd báºÃ¾ nearu on breostan; Æ¿eorÃ¾eÃ¾ hi Ã¾eah oft niÃ¾a bearnum to helpe and to hÃ¦le gehÆ¿Ã¦Ã¾re, gif hi his hláºstaÃ¾ Ã¦ror.	Trouble is oppressive to the heart; yet often it proves a source of help and salvation to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.

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