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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...
- 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...
- Anglo-Saxon runes
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were...
- 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").
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 ...
- Emma Groeneveld
The Study of Ancient Runes (commonly shortened to Ancient Runes) was an elective subject at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and presumably Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, that could be taken by students third year and above.
The Elder Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names: F, U, Þ, A, R and K) has 24 runes, often arranged in three groups of eight runes; each group is called an ætt (pl. ættir; meaning 'clan, group', although sometimes thought to mean eight).
Details of Runic alphabets, including Elder Futhark, Gothic Runes, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and Younger Futhark.
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rune, Any of the characters within an early Germanic writing system. The runic alphabet, also called futhark, is attested in northern Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from about the 3rd century to the 16th or 17th century ad. The Goths may have developed it from the Etruscan alphabet of northern Italy.
