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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
The inscription on the Kylver stone ends with a stacked bind...
- 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
Younger furthark runic calendar. Runic calendar from 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
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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 oThe word rune comes from the Old Norse word rún (secret, runic letter), from the Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ runo (secret, mystery, rune), from the Proto-Germanic rūnō (secret, mystery, rune), from Proto-Indo-European *rewHn- (to roar; grumble; murmur; mumble; whisper) [ source ].
The Anglo-Saxon runes are runes that were used from the 5th to the 8th century. It extends Elder Futhark from 24 to between 26 and 33 characters. Like the Elder Futhark, it is named after the first few letters in the series: These transliterate to Futhorc in modern English. The script was used to record Old English and Old Frisian.
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