Kenaz

Icelandic Rune Poem

Kaun er barna böl
ok bardaga [för]
ok holdfúa hús.
flagella konungr.

Ulcer

disease fatal to children
and painful spot
and abode of mortification.

Norwegian Rune Poem

Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem

Kaun er barna bolvan;
boo gørver nán folvan.

Ulcer is fatal to children;
death makes a corpse pale.

Cen byþ cwicera gehwam, cuþ on fyre
blac ond beorhtlic, byrneþ oftust
ðær hi æþelingas inne restaþ.

The torch is known to every living man by its pale, bright flame;
it always burns where princes sit within.