Rune 23 of 24 · Tyr's aett
Dagaz
“day” · sound: d
Looks the same either way up: never reversed.
Historical evidence
Old English dæg, day, described in the poem as sent by the Lord, a hope and joy to rich and poor alike. It has no Norse counterpart.
The name Dagaz is a modern reconstruction of the Proto-Germanic name; the Elder Futhark’s own names are not recorded.
In the rune poems
Original
Dæg byþ drihtnes sond, deore mannum,
mære metodes leoht, myrgþ and tohiht
eadgum and earmum, eallum brice.English
Day is the Lord’s messenger, dear to people, the Creator’s glorious light, a joy and a hope to the fortunate and the poor, of use to all.
Original texts as printed in Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples, Cambridge University Press, 1915. Public domain. The English translations are Scryway’s own, made line by line from these texts; square brackets mark uncertain or added words. No published translation is reproduced.
Modern interpretation
From 20th-century and later divinatory practice, written for Scryway. Not a historical meaning.
Keywords: breakthrough, daylight, awakening
Upright
Daylight after darkness: clarity, a breakthrough, a turning point toward hope.