Ahh makes sense. Usually people in this sub talking about bind runes mean some sort of magic shit, to the point I didn't even realize that combined runes in history were called that.

To actually answer your question, yeah there's plenty of examples of "bindrunes" being used in words instead of writing two runes separately, or entire words being written as one symbol. I think the former is easily attributed to laziness and the latter to people being bored and wanting to draw cool shit lol

Honestly so used to the magic nerds on here that I even lost track of what was real, admittedly I'm only still on this sub cause I think the posts where people get into arguments about magic are pretty funny

There's no such thing as a "bind rune" it's a contrived 19th or 20th century concept playing on the idea of magic (also not real) using runic characters. They were not even used for "magical" purposes by Germanic or Norse peoples, ever. Runes are literally just the letters used to write early Germanic languages. It's like if 1,000 years from now someone said "usually I write "H" on my door to keep monsters out at night, but could I use "H" as a letter??" It is a letter.

yeah not a bad idea tbh

already got a post idea (kinda nsfw, assume you know what that means in context)

"Found this flag in my grandpa's basement, can anyone tell me what these runes mean?? Is this from Viking times?"

yeah of course no problem

tbh I googled it all but at least I learned something

Ok yeah then if you mean English language, the word strength in Latin letters is actually directly transcribed from the word written in old english, so the way I typed it in runes up above would be correct

and yes personal meaning is most important but I respect that you don't wanna look like an idiot with it

fortunately in this example, you could actually do it exactly the way you described including with the T and R bound and it would be totally fine

lolll literally the example, yep that's a pretty common one

looked it up, "strength" is actually a word that appears in old english, so you could just write it as ᛋᛏᚱᛖᚾᚷᚦ, or I guess combine the t and r

edit: if you actually mean "stren g-h-t," that's the way "strength" the old english word was spelled in a translation of the bible on 1534, so it is the same thing, If you mean the latin word "viribus" for strength, I wouldn't write that in runes yeah

didn't know that was a sub thanks

Ahhh ok yeah in that case it'd be a little weird because latin wasnt mean to be written in runes (although it did happen), not different from if you wrote the chinese word for water or strength or whatever in our alphabet.

What is the latin word you want to write? There's probably an old english translation for it that you could write in the Anglo-Saxon futhark

Yeah I realize that now I knew about combined runes but I see so much magic shit I didn't realize bind rune was the proper term

Also in looking into it further to clarify for myself, I think the whole word ones were kind of a thing but they were rare and didn't mean anything other than whatever the word would mean if spelled normally and mostly used in drawings

actually pretty cool looking tbh