Peorð

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Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English
	*Perþō?	Peorð
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc
Unicode	ᛈ U+16C8
Transliteration	p
Transcription	p
IPA	[p]
Position in rune-row	14 b

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ᛈ is the rune denoting the sound p (voiceless bilabial stop) in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. It does not appear in the Younger Futhark. It is named peorð in the Anglo-Saxon rune-poem and glossed enigmatically as follows:

ᛈ peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter / ƿlancum [on middum], ðar ƿigan sittaþ / on beorsele bliþe ætsomne

"Peorð is a source of recreation and amusement to the great, where warriors sit happily together in the beerhall."

The name is not comprehensible from Old English, i.e. no word similar to peorð is known in this language. According to a 9th-century manuscript of Alcuin (Codex Vindobonensis 795), written using the Gothic alphabet in Britain, the letters WIKI