Fehu: Wealth and the Sacred Flow of Prosperity in the Elder Futhark

Among the first things you’ll notice when reading an inscription in the Elder Futhark—the oldest known runic alphabet used by the Germanic peoples—is that it begins with the rune ᚠ, Fehu. This was not random. Just as our modern alphabet begins with A, the rune-row begins with Fehu, but its position at the front isn’t […]