Kaun means sore or ulcer.
Stanza from the Icelandic Rune Poem
Sore is a curse to children
and painful spot
and abode of mortification.
Stanza from the Norwegian Rune Poem
Sore is fatal to children;
death makes a corpse pale.
ᚴ kaun
LO: Long-branch
SH: Short-twig
ST: Staveless
VA: Variant
TW: Twig-runes
NO: Old Norse transliteration
EN: Modern English transliteration
