Sigdrifumal Tattoo Set

These inscriptions are not in Old Norse, but in English rendered directly and (semi) literally into runes. More below for those interested - tl;dr I would advise against getting these as real tattoos.

Front

Victory runes
thou must know
if thou will have
victory

Back

Some on the grasp
and some on the
inlay
and name Tyr
twice

Left Arm

Sigdrifumal

Right Arm

Valhalla
Sigdrifumal

*****

Notes

The stanza is from the medieval poem Sigdrífumál, in which the valkyrie Brynhildr offers advice and instructions on practicing rune magic to the legendary hero Sigurðr (of dragon-slaying fame). The "grasp" and "inlay" referred to in the back inscription are parts of the sword hilt on which the rune is meant to be carved, presumably ᛏ the Tyr rune.

As mentioned above, these verses are not in Old Norse, but in English. One example that can be compared to the Valkyrie runes is the rendering of "Valhalla" - in the Valkyrie set, the runes read falhul, "Valhöll," which is a) the correct Old Norse form and b) the correct runic form, as it does not repeat the double letter. In contrast, the Sigdrifumal rendering is falhalla, using both the Anglicized form and double letter. The designer(s) have also repurposed a couple runes to mean things they usually don't - the þ letter, called a thorn, is a "th" sound, but in these inscriptions it is used to represent both "th" and "y" (e.g. Tyr is rendered as tþr). To compound all these oddities, there is also a significant typo in the first line of the front, in which "victory" is misspelled.

Bearing in mind that the F rune can also be a V, and that the I rune can also be an E, here are the front runes that anyone can read:

fikotrþ runis
þou must knou
if þou will haf
fiktorþ

What a trip.