Thurisaz

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For other uses, see Thurisaz (disambiguation).

The rune expressing the ᚦ is called Thurs (Þurs "giant", see Jotun) in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems:

Old Norwegian	English translation
Þurs vældr kvinna kvillu, kátr værðr fár af illu.	Giant causes anguish to women, misfortune makes few men cheerful.
Old Icelandic
Þurs er kvenna kvöl ok kletta búi ok varðrúnar verr. Saturnus þengill.	Thurs is torture of women and cliff-dweller and husband of a giantess Saturn's thegn.

By extension, it was also associated with the giant-killer Thor and his hammer Mjollnir. [1]

In Anglo-Saxon England, the same rune was called Thorn and it survives as the letter Þ. The corresponding Gothic letter, 𐌸, is called þiuþ. This lack of agreement makes it difficult to reconstruct the Elder Futhark rune's Proto-Germanic name. If thurs continues the original name, it may have been *þurisaz.