To put it simply – it's a translation tool that converts whatever you type into runes - depending on your choice of runic alphabet.  For this version of the rune converter you have three choices:

• Elder Futhark 
• Younger Futhark 
• Anglo Saxon Futhorc

It was a tool created for fun, but one I've personally found many real world applications for within my work. It's not perfect, but it has been an influential tool in many of my commissions and projects. 

This Rune Converter is for anyone & everyone – and the purpose for using it will greatly impact it's usefulness. I'd imagine for most people that visit this page that it's nothing more than a fun little gimmick. Maybe you wanted to know how to write your name, or a particular phrase, or even something for a tattoo. 

For someone like me it's incredibly useful. I'm able to quickly transliterate any text into a runic draft whatever project I'm working on in that moment. Draft is the important word there, as this converter is far from accurate. It's a simple and humble tool, but if you take the converted text and do a bit of work on it, it can be fairly accurate. 

You just need to know what you're doing. 

You can't use it to make racist shit, or anything else hateful/distasteful. And (Irony, I know) you can't steal it. 

Anything else is fair game. Have fun with it <3

Not particularly, no. What this tool does is find the closest letter for letter conversion based on what you're typing. Runic writing is far more nuanced and complex than that I'm afraid. Believe me, I also wish it wasn't. 

If you want to get the most out of this tool, I have an entire page dedicated to it. You can click THIS LINK to visit that page, where you'll find a bunch of tips, tricks and mistakes to avoid when writing runes. 

We do have an accurate one 

– A Version 2 that I've been using for a while now, but we aren't willing to launch that page until we find a way to protect the code, because unfortunately it's all too possible for someone to come along, copy the code, change how it looks a bit and then plop it on their own website. 

I should know. 

This converter is stolen. From Valhyr. Essentially, I bought this translator from an old friend of mine due to how useful it would be as a resource on this website. A lot of things were changed, but this translator is almost identical to a much older version of Valhyr's. 

Before you spam Renet with messages to come and smite me down with an Axe – He knows. Renet is a good friend of mine and when I learned about this translator being taken from the Valhyr website, I just spoke to him about it. Naturally, he didn't care – That dude is whimsy-maxxing to a diabolical level – he found it funny and we had a good laugh about it. 

He's since worked with me on Viking Tattoos Volume 1, and we'll be offering him some of the features of our V2 translator when it's ready to be launched. 

So why does the V2 need to be protected before we can launch it?

Because Svein is a lunatic who put an unhinged amount of time into that project – and I paid a lot of money for him to do so. He mapped over 16,000 words and their runic translations. Manually. Yes, he's autistic, and I fucking love him. But that's a crazy amount of work, and I don't particularly want it stolen when we do release it.