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<blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 329758" data-attributes="member: 5990">I suspect the rune isn't actually daeg (&quot;day&quot;). If it's the second half of &quot;Dunstan&quot; (which is an Old English name) it could have been intended to be the rune stan (&quot;stone&quot;), which has a similar appearance.&nbsp; OE Latin-alphabet manuscripts often used runes as logographs representing their names.&nbsp; This one is an odd peculiarly British rune representing the consonant cluster /st/ (<a href="http://www.runeschool.org/lessons/09_histdev.htm" target="_blank">http://www.runeschool.org/lessons/09_histdev.htm</a>).&nbsp; It's possible your friend was looking at a table which listed three variant forms of stan and thought it must be one symbol.&nbsp; Repetitions of rune symbols do appear historically, but in those cases their function was probably magical rather than alphabetic.It should perhaps be mentioned that there is a tendency among certain authors to make wildly fantastic guesses about the mystical significance of runes and then pretend as though their wild fantasies were actually fact.&nbsp; Let's just say that &quot;book of runes&quot; should usually be thought of as about equivalent to &quot;Magic of Faerun.&quot;Isn't &quot;triple dagaz&quot; an ice cream flavor too?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tarchon, post: 329758, member: 5990"] I suspect the rune isn't actually daeg ("day"). If it's the second half of "Dunstan" (which is an Old English name) it could have been intended to be the rune stan ("stone"), which has a similar appearance. OE Latin-alphabet manuscripts often used runes as logographs representing their names. This one is an odd peculiarly British rune representing the consonant cluster /st/ ([url]http://www.runeschool.org/lessons/09_histdev.htm[/url]). It's possible your friend was looking at a table which listed three variant forms of stan and thought it must be one symbol. Repetitions of rune symbols do appear historically, but in those cases their function was probably magical rather than alphabetic. It should perhaps be mentioned that there is a tendency among certain authors to make wildly fantastic guesses about the mystical significance of runes and then pretend as though their wild fantasies were actually fact. Let's just say that "book of runes" should usually be thought of as about equivalent to "Magic of Faerun." Isn't "triple dagaz" an ice cream flavor too? [/QUOTE]

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