*Naudiz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the n-rune ᚾ, meaning "need, distress".
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N.[1] The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runes if you don’t want another man’s wife to abuse your trust if you have a tryst.
Old Icelandic ᚾ Nauð er Þýjar þrá ok þungr kostr ok vássamlig verk.
Anglo-Saxon ᚾ Nẏd bẏþ nearu on breostan; ƿeorþeþ hi þeah oft niþa bearnum to helpe and to hæle gehƿæþre, gif hi his hlẏstaþ æror.
Trouble is oppressive to the heart; yet often it proves a source of help and salvation to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.