The name of the Anglo-Saxon rune is variously recorded as eolx, ilcs, ilix, elux, eolhx.
The 9th-century abecedarium anguliscum in Codex Sangallensis 878 shows eolh as a peculiar shape, as it were a bindrune of the older with the Younger Futhark , resulting in an "asterisk" shape similar to ior .