The Authentic Orthography
Vengeance, Son of Odin · The chosen
Why váli.com is the correct form
ᚢᛅᛚᛁ
The name in its original Younger Futhark form. ᚢᛅᛚᛁ → Váli. ᚢ (úr) writes the rounded back vowels /u, o, ø, ǫ, y/ and /w/ · ᛅ (ár) writes /a/, /á/ and /æ/ · ᛚ (lögr) writes /l/ · The spelling uali is a normalized phonetic reconstruction; Younger Futhark does not distinguish voiced/voiceless stops or separate short and long vowels · Initial /v/ continues Proto-Germanic *w-, represented by ᚢ (úr).
VALI
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Váli
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
váli.com → xn--vli-ela.com
The non-ASCII characters in Váli are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Váli.
How vali becomes Váli
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | v | → | V | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | á | Stress | Stress on a |
| 03 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 04 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
Why Váli is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Old Norse original ᚢᛅᛚᛁ contains only stress (acute accent). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Váli behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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