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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...
- 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...
- 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").
- left-to-right
- Younger Futhark
- Alphabet
Runes are found carved into stones (called runestones) in many places in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), and in the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Frisia. Runes have been used for writing poems and eulogies, and they are still sometimes used to write ciphers.
NameElder FuþarkYounger FuþarkAnglo-saxon Fuþorc*fehuᚠᚠᚠ*ūruzᚢᚢᚢ*thurisazᚦᚦᚦ*ansuzᚨᚬ ąᚩ oJun 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
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.
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