Upright meaning
The poems call it slag from bad iron and the weeping of clouds. Hard, grey conditions are shaping you. What feels like wear is actually tempering.
Reversed (merkstave)
Weathering has become wearing down. You may be enduring something you are allowed to leave, or ignoring a slow leak of energy.
A question to sit with
Which hardship is shaping you, and which is only wearing you out?
Its ætt
Úr belongs to Freyr's ætt, the runes of beginnings, resources and the material world.