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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
Distribution of pre–sixth-century Elder Futhark finds. The...
- Runic Magic
Modern systems of runic divination are based on Hermeticism,...
- Runes (Disambiguation)
People. Rune (given name), a Scandinavian given name Holger...
- Younger Futhark
The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a...
- 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
Dalecarlian runes. The Dalecarlian runes, or dalrunes, was a...
- List of Runestones
Elder Futhark runestones. The vast majority of runestones...
- Rök Runestone
The Rök runestone (Swedish: Rökstenen; Ög 136) is one of the...
- 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
Runic alphabet . Little is known about the origins of the Runic alphabet, which is traditionally known as futhark after the first six letters. The Runic alphabet may have been based on an early version of the Greek alphabet. A number of letters resemble those used in early Greek alphabet.
Runic alphabets have seen numerous uses since the 18th-century Viking revival, in Scandinavian Romantic nationalism (Gothicismus) and Germanic occultism in the 19th century, and in the context of the Fantasy genre and of Germanic Neopaganism in the 20th century.
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.
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