Rune 22 of 24 · Tyr's aett
Ingwaz
“the god or hero Ing” · sound: ng
Looks the same either way up: never reversed.
Historical evidence
Old English ing names a hero first seen among the East Danes, who went away east over the waves. Ing is linked, debatedly, with the Norse Yngvi-Freyr. The rune has no Norse counterpart.
The name Ingwaz is a modern reconstruction of the Proto-Germanic name; the Elder Futhark’s own names are not recorded.
In the rune poems
Original
Ing wæs ærest mid East-Denum
gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan est
ofer wæg gewat; wæn æfter ran;
ðus Heardingas ðone hæle nemdun.English
Ing was first seen among the East Danes by men, until he later went east [or: back] over the waves; his wagon ran after him; so the Heardings named that hero.
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: gestation, completion, inner potential
Upright
Something complete in itself and ready to emerge: a phase ending, energy gathered before release.