Younger Futhark · Freyr's Ætt
Fé
“Wealth / Cattle” · sound F · FAY
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What Fé means
Prosperity, abundance, the price of everything — wealth brings both joy and strife
In the older 24-rune Elder Futhark, Fé corresponds to Fehu.
Fé in the rune poems
The Norwegian and Icelandic rune poems are the medieval testimony to the sixteen Younger Futhark runes — the oldest verse describing each stave by name.
Fé vældr frænda róge; / føðesk ulfr í skóge.
“Wealth causes kinsmen's strife; the wolf feeds in the forest.”
Fé er frænda róg / ok flæðar viti / ok grafseiðs gata.
“Wealth is kinsmen's strife / and fire of the flood / and the serpent's path.”