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Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English	Old Norse
	*Naudiz	Nȳd	Nauðr
	"need, hardship"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc	Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᚾ U+16BE		ᚾ U+16BE	ᚿ U+16BF
Transliteration	n
Transcription	n
IPA
Position in rune-row	10		8

*Naudiz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the n-rune ᚾ, meaning "need, distress". In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as ᚾ nyd, in the Younger Futhark as ᚾ, Icelandic naud and Old Norse nauðr. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌽 n, named nauþs.

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

The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runes if you don’t want another man’s 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 ᚾ on your fingernail."

The rune is recorded in all three rune poems:

See also

• Elder Futhark
• Younger Futhark
• Rune poem

References

1. Gippert, Jost, The Development of Old Germanic Alphabets, Uni Frankfurt, archived from the original on 2021-02-25, retrieved 2007-03-21.
2. Original poems and translation from the Rune Poem Page Archived 1999-05-01 at the Wayback Machine.

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