There is a long history of the far right co-opting Norse imagery. Jake Angeli, the Trump supporter who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing horns and displaying his tattoos, is just the latest example.

Snopes also found the rune described as popular with "skinheads" in a 2006 Edmonton Journal article. Modern neo-Nazis routinely use Norse symbols, including the Odal rune.

Hyatt Hotels says hate symbols ‘abhorrent’ amid comparisons of CPAC stage to Nazi rune Event organizers denied any connection, claiming it was a conspiracy theory from cancel culture extremists ...

Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli, a QAnon supporter known for his painted face and horned hat, protest in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. Saul ...

Hyatt Hotels has called symbols of hate “abhorrent” after the design of a stage at the US Conservative Political Action Conference at one of its hotels drew comparisons to a Norse rune used by ...

Norse rune symbols have drawn similar suspicion in the past, and have been used by Aryan groups in the United States since the 1980s, Nordvig said.

This is a symbol listed by the Anti-Defamation League as “one of a number of ancient European symbols appropriated by the Nazis in their attempt to invent an idealised Aryan or Norse heritage”.

The pattern of the CPAC stage was compared to an Odal Rune, an ancient Norse symbol appropriated by the SS in Nazi Germany in their attempt to reconstruct a mythic Aryan past, according to the ADL ...