Rune 12 of 24 · Hagal's aett
Jera
“year; good harvest” · sound: j (as y in 'year')
Looks the same either way up: never reversed.
Historical evidence
Old English ger and Norse ár mean the year, especially a good harvest; the poems describe the earth giving its fruits. The Norse rune ár later took the sound a.
The name Jera is a modern reconstruction of the Proto-Germanic name; the Elder Futhark’s own names are not recorded.
In the rune poems (original texts)
Ger byþ gumena hiht, ðonne God læteþ,
halig heofones cyning, hrusan syllan
beorhte bleda beornum ond ðearfum.Ár er gumna góðe;
get ek at ǫrr var Fróðe.Ár er gumna góði
ok gott sumar
ok algróinn akr
annus allvaldr.Original texts as printed in Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples, Cambridge University Press, 1915. Public domain. The summary above is Scryway’s own; no translation is reproduced.
Modern interpretation
From 20th-century and later divinatory practice, written for Scryway. Not a historical meaning.
Keywords: harvest, cycles, reward in time
Upright
The return on patient effort: what was sown is reaped in its season. Cycles turning as they should.