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The rune is called Thurs (Old Norse ''Þurs'' "giant", from a reconstructed Common Germanic ') in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems. In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem it is called thorn, whence the name of the letter þ derived. It is transliterated as ''þ'', and has the sound value of a voiceless dental fricative (the English sound of ''th'' as in ''thing''). The rune is an adoption of the Latin letter ''D'' (while the ''d'' rune takes its shape from an Italic variant of the letter san). It is absent from the earliest Vimose inscriptions, but it is found in the Thorsberg chape inscription, dated to ca. AD 200. == Name== ''Þurs'' is a name for the giants in Norse mythology. Tursas is also an ill-defined being in Finnish mythology - Finland was known as the land of the giants (''Jotland'') in Scandinavian/north Germanic mythology.〔(Fornjot and the Settlement of Norway )〕 In Anglo-Saxon England, the same rune was called ''Thorn'' or "Þorn" and it survives as the Icelandic letter Þ (þ). An attempt has been made to account for the substitution of names by taking "thorn" to be a kenning (metaphor) for "giant".〔(Old English Rune Poem )〕 It is disputed as to whether a distinct system of Gothic runes ever existed, but it is clear that most of the names (but not most of the shapes) of the letters of the Gothic alphabet correspond to those of the Elder Futhark. The name of , the Gothic letter corresponding to Þ is an exception; it is recorded as ''þiuþ'' "(the) good" in the Codex Vindobonensis 795, and as such unrelated to either ''þurs'' or ''þorn''. The lack of agreement between the various glyphs and their names in Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Old Norse makes it difficult to reconstruct the Elder Futhark rune's Proto-Germanic name. Assuming that the Scandinavian name ''þurs'' is the most plausible reflex of the Elder Futhark name, a Common Germanic form ' can be reconstructed (cf. Old English ''þyrs'' "giant, ogre" and Old High German ''duris-es'' "(of the) giant"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thurisaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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