Bjarkan means birch tree.
Stanza from the Icelandic Rune Poem
Birch is leafy twig
and little tree
and fresh young shrub.
Stanza from the Norwegian Rune Poem
Birch is the shrub with the greenest leaves;
Loki was fortunate in his deceit.
Bjarkan means birch tree.
Birch is leafy twig
and little tree
and fresh young shrub.
Birch is the shrub with the greenest leaves;
Loki was fortunate in his deceit.
LO: Long-branch
SH: Short-twig
ST: Staveless
VA: Variant
TW: Twig-runes
NO: Old Norse transliteration
EN: Modern English transliteration