Daeg is the twenty fourth and final of the Futhorc runes shared with the Elder Futhark, its name and reading a direct continuation of Dagaz, whose own name likewise means day, both traditions closing their respective twenty four rune sequences, the futhorc's shared core and the Elder Futhark's complete row alike, on this same image of daylight, hope and blessing.
R. I. Page's survey notes that Dagaz's closing position in the Elder Futhark's own three aett structure, the very last rune of the twenty four, gives it a natural resolving character in the older tradition that the Old English poem's own closing content for this shared section directly preserves, even though five more Anglo-Frisian runes, Ac through Ear, still remain in the futhorc's own longer twenty nine rune row before the poem itself is finished. This makes Daeg something of a double closing point within the surviving Old English Rune Poem, the end of the row's ancient, shared inheritance and, simultaneously, only the twenty fourth stanza of twenty nine still to come, the poem's final five stanzas belonging entirely to the later, distinctly Anglo-Saxon expansion of the futhorc row. Dagaz's letterform, an hourglass or bowtie shaped double triangle, is among the row's more distinctive and symmetrical signs, its balance sometimes read as fitting for a rune marking day's own balance between light and dark, though again this remains a suggestive rather than a settled reading.