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- The Westeremden yew-stick is a yew-wood stick found in Westeremden B, in the Groningen province, in 1917, bearing a Old Frisian Futhorc inscription. Runes with unfamiliar shapes or uncertain values are:, a Spiegelrune of ᛒ, similar to a variant of ᛥ stan, transliterated as B below, a Spiegelrune of ᛈ, similar to a variant of ᛥ stan, transliterated as P below, like Younger Futhark kaun, transliterated as K below ᚳ (like Anglo-Saxon cen, occurring three times); it apparently represents a vowel, likely æ, replacing absent ᚫ æsc ᛅ (like Younger Futhark ar), transliterated as A below ᚴ, a "bookhand-s", transliterated as S below ᚿ, like a short-twig n, probably for ᚾ n with these decisions, the transliteration may be: ophæmujiBAdaæmluþ: wimœBæhþuSA iwioKuPdunale: Seebold (1990) reads (transliterating g for j, v for B, ë for A, ô for œ): ophæmu givëda amluþ:iwi ok upduna (a)le wimôv æh þusë Looijenga (1997) reads: op hæmu jibada æmluþ : iwi ok up duna (a)le wimœd æh þusa Interpreted as something like "luck (amluþ) stays (gibada) at home (op hæmu); and (ok) at the yew may it grow (ale) on the hill (up duna); Wimœd has (æh) this (þusa). " or "at the homestead stays good fortune, may it also grow near the yew on the terp; Wimœd owns this. " For paleographical reasons (the bookhand-s and Younger Futhark influence), Looijenga dates the stick to after AD 750.
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