Gebo Rune Meaning
ᚷ · sound "g" · Freyr's ætt · name means gift
gift, exchange, partnership, balance
Upright meaning
Gebo is the gift and the bond it creates. It points to partnership, generosity and fair exchange, and asks what you are giving and receiving in your relationships, and whether both sides feel honored.
Reversed
This rune looks the same upside down, so it has no reversed meaning.
Lore
Gebo means gift. Only the Anglo-Saxon poem covers it, praising generosity as an honor to the giver and a lifeline to those who have nothing. In early Germanic custom a gift was never quite free: it created a tie and called for something in return.
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