Sowilo
ᛋ · Old English sigel
Everything written here is yours to read. The runes themselves open with The Coven, and the first thirty days cost nothing.
S. (the sun) is ever a joy to seafarers (or, in the hopes of seafarers) when they journey away over the fishes' bath, until the courser of the deep bears them to land.
The SS insignia of Nazi Germany was drawn from this rune. The Anti-Defamation League describes the SS symbol as derived from the sowilo or sun rune, and notes that white supremacists draw it as two bolt-like figures with flattened ends. The doubled bolt is theirs. The single rune is a letter of an alphabet, and it is here as a letter.
The Old English Rune Poem is the fullest surviving poem about the runes. It describes the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, which grew out of the Elder Futhark, so the stanza below belongs to the Old English rune that continues this one rather than to the Elder Futhark rune itself.
The Anglo-Saxon Runic Poem, translated by Bruce Dickins in Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 1915). The text and the runes are in the public domain.
The letterform is redrawn from the public-domain vector runes on Wikimedia Commons, set on a common canvas so every rune in the row is the same size.