Fehu
Cattle, and the Quarrel
The wealth stanzas are not near-contemporaries: Dickins's 1915 edition assigns the Norwegian poem to the thirteenth century and the Icelandic poem to the fifteenth.
Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (1915), English poem, lines 1–3, pp. 12–13; Norwegian and Icelandic poems, stanza 1, pp. 24–25, 28–29; introductions, pp. 6–8.
The f-rune, named feoh in Old English and fé in the Scandinavian rune poems.
More context
The English feoh stanza calls wealth a comfort but requires free giving for honour before the Lord. The Norwegian fé stanza instead names discord among kinsmen, followed by a wolf in the forest. The Icelandic stanza also names family discord and adds the fire of the sea and the serpent's path. Dickins's 1915 introduction places the Norwegian poem in the late thirteenth century and the Icelandic in the fifteenth. These later poems should not be described as near-contemporary witnesses to the English stanza.
Light
The English stanza connects wealth’s comfort with free giving and honour before the Lord.
Shadow
The Norwegian and Icelandic stanzas make wealth a cause of family discord; the Norwegian adds a wolf living in the forest.