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A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter.
- Elder Futhark
The Elder Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the...
- Runic Magic
The inscription on the Kylver stone ends with a stacked bind...
- Runes (Disambiguation)
Rune or Runes may also refer to: People. Rune (given name),...
- Runiform (Disambiguation)
Runiform may refer to scripts or inscriptions similar...
- Medieval Runes
The medieval runes, or the futhork, was a Scandinavian runic...
- Ŋ
Eng or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the...
- Dalecarlian Runes
The Dalecarlian runes, or dalrunes, was a late version of...
- List of Runestones
Elder Futhark runestones. The vast majority of runestones...
- Rök Runestone
The Rök runestone (Swedish: Rökstenen; Ög 136) is one of the...
- Runic Calendar
Marks. On one line, 52 weeks of 7 days were laid out using...
- Elder Futhark
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian ( Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
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- Younger Futhark
- Alphabet
Runes. Runes are very old letters which Germanic people used before they started using Latin letters in the Middle Ages. In its broadest sense, the word runes can mean any cryptic letters, but it usually means the alphabets used by Scandinavian people from about the year 150 CE to the Middle Ages.
NameElder FuþarkYounger FuþarkAnglo-saxon Fuþorc*fehuᚠᚠᚠ*ūruzᚢᚢᚢ*thurisazᚦᚦᚦ*ansuzᚨᚬ ąᚩ oWelcome to the RuneScape Wiki! We are the official RuneScape encyclopaedia, written and maintained by the players. Since our start in 2005, we've become the largest and most comprehensive reference for the game, with 75,743 articles and counting.
Jun 19, 2018 · Runes are letters in the runic alphabets of Germanic-speaking peoples, written and read most prominently from at least c. 160 CE onwards in Scandinavia in the Elder Futhark script (until c. 700 CE) and the Younger Futhark - which illuminated the Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) - as well as in England and Frisia in the Anglo- Saxon Futhorc (also know...
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