The Westeremden yew-stick is a yew

Taxus

Taxus is a genus of yews, small coniferous trees or shrubs in the yew family Taxaceae. They are relatively slow-growing and can be very long-lived, and reach heights of 1-40 m, with trunk diameters of up to 4 m...

-wood stick found in Westeremden B in the Groningen

Groningen (province)

Groningen [] is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea...

 province of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 in 1917 that bears an Old Frisian

Old Frisian

Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area between the Rhine and Weser on the European North Sea coast. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland also spoke Old Frisian but no medieval texts of this area are known...

 Futhorc inscription.

Runes with unfamiliar shapes or uncertain values are:

• 
  , a Spiegelrune of , similar to a variant of stan, transliterated as B below
• 
  , a Spiegelrune of , similar to a variant of stan, transliterated as P below
• 
  , like Younger Futhark
  Younger Futhark
  The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet, a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters, in use from ca. 800 CE...
  
   kaun, transliterated as K below (like Anglo-Saxon cen, occurring three times); it apparently represents a vowel, likely æ, replacing absent æsc (like Younger Futhark ar), transliterated as A below, a "bookhand-s", transliterated as S below, like a short-twig n, probably for n

with these decisions, the transliteration may be:

ophæmujiBAdaæmluþ:

wimœBæhþuSA

iwioKuPdunale:

Seebold (1990) reads (transliterating g for j, v for B, ë for A, ô for œ):

ophæmu givëda amluþ:iwi ok upduna (a)le wimôv æh þusë

Looijenga (1997) reads:

op hæmu jibada æmluþ : iwi ok up duna (a)le wimœd æh þusa

Interpreted as something like "luck (amluþ) stays (gibada) at home (op hæmu); and (ok) at the yew (iw

Eihwaz

Eiwaz or Eihaz was a Proto-Germanic word for "yew", and the reconstructed name of the rune ....

i) may it grow (ale) on the hill (up duna); Wimœd has (æh) this (þusa)." or "at the homestead stays good fortune, may it also grow near the yew on the terp; Wimœd owns this."

For paleographical

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 reasons (the bookhand-s and Younger Futhark

Younger Futhark

The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet, a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters, in use from ca. 800 CE...

influence), Looijenga dates the stick to after AD 750.