The major runic alphabets are called futharks based upon the first six symbols. |
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One inscription is a copy of the twenty-eight letters of the runic alphabet, known as the futhorc. |
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One is a rock covered in runic writings, the other a figure of almost Cycladic simplicity, which stood above a grave. |
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Some would even conclude that runic handwriting is a writing system like any other, since these inscriptions contain no magic at all. |
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His conclusion is: 'On the Continent we have an actual break in the runic tradition. |
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Miller took strips of black tape and created a runic pattern on the wall, an equal sign over a vertical line over another equal sign. |
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Two runic futhorks, one earlier than the other, are employed. |
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The company name is from the runic alphabet and represents the sun. |
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Here we have a clear example of the reason why runologists tend to present some runic words as names rather than to give their meaning. |
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They have an artistic interest and a historical one certainly, but, for the most part, few are of interest for runic magic. |
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Moltke gives the same runic inscription with the comment, 'doubtless a doubled protective word. |
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Ash is a strongly runic tree by implication, the world-ash Yggdrasil being the tree from which Odin hung in order to obatin the runes. |
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Their exact relation is difficult to determine from the sparse evidence of runic inscriptions. |
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A few short inscriptions from the early period of Old English were written using a runic script. |
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In 1975 he introduced, in place of the runic circles, figures and barographs on synoptic maps, magnetic picture-symbols about the size of his hand. |
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The inscription has linguistic significance because it contains six runic symbols indicating guttural sounds, whereas the Scandinavians employed only one or two. |
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These cryptographic runes constitute a system for writing secret runes that works as already explained with runic inscription 22: Each rune would be designated by two numbers. |
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Moltke feels that the inscription is not runic at all. |
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Of the total number of Norwegian runic inscriptions preserved today, most are medieval runes. |
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The largest concentration of runic inscriptions are the Bryggen inscriptions found in Bergen, more than 650 in total. |
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The early development of this language branch is attested through runic inscriptions. |
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Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German. |
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Dated to between AD 660 and 690, it marks the end of the native Alemannic tradition of runic literacy. |
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The earliest written records from Scandinavia are runic inscriptions on memorial stones and other objects. |
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The Old English rune poem is a rune poem that recounts the Old English runic alphabet, the futhorc. |
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Two objects with runic inscriptions invoking Thor date from the 11th century, one from England and one from Sweden. |
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These runic writings however usually consist of no more than inscriptions of a single or few words. |
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It came into common use in the later 11th century, replacing the runic Wynn letter which had been used for the same sound. |
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The texts which introduce the runic alphabets are as follows. |
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In Vang there is a church of the XIX century and there is a stone with runic inscriptions of the IX century: Gurnei engraved signs to preserve the memory of his brother who died. |
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Even if I am wrong about this set being an image of the Futhark, this accumulation cannot have but a magical interpretation, as in the other runic inscriptions that show also these 'senseless' repetitions. |
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The majority of runic inscriptions from the Viking period are found in Sweden and date from the 11th century. |
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From roughly the 2nd century AD, certain speakers of early Germanic varieties developed the Elder Futhark, an early form of the runic alphabet. |
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Early runic inscriptions also are largely limited to personal names and difficult to interpret. |
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However, throughout the Viking Age, runic alphabets remained in common use in Scandinavia. |
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Apart from some runic inscriptions, no contemporary records or historiography survives from the Norse settlements. |
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The term earl has been compared to the name of the Heruli, and to runic erilaz. |
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Norse was written in the runic alphabet, first with the elder futhark and from the 9th century with the younger futhark. |
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This is reflected in runic inscriptions where the older read stain and the later stin. |
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Runology is the study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. |
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Historically, the runic alphabet is a derivation of the Old Italic scripts of antiquity, with the addition of some innovations. |
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They are called runic because the body of text appears in runes. |
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The earliest inscriptions in Old Norse are runic, from the 8th century. |
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In the north of Barra, from this period survived a gravestone, on which a Celtic cross is present on one side, and runic inscriptions on the other. |
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The oldest Old English inscriptions were written using a runic system, but from about the 9th century this was replaced by a version of the Latin alphabet. |
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While there are few remains of runic writing on paper from the Viking era, thousands of stones with runic inscriptions have been found where Vikings lived. |
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Germanic deities are attested from numerous sources, including works of literature, various chronicles, runic inscriptions, personal names, place names, and other sources. |
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The earliest runic inscriptions found on artifacts give the name of either the craftsman or the proprietor, or sometimes, remain a linguistic mystery. |
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Rhotacism, for example, was largely complete in West Germanic at a time when North Germanic runic inscriptions still clearly distinguished the two phonemes. |
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It is the earliest stage of a characteristically North Germanic language, and the language attested in the Elder Futhark inscriptions, the oldest form of the runic alphabets. |
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Indeed, some of the medieval runic inscriptions are written in Latin. |
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Evidence of the Viking presence is widespread, and includes the settlement at the Brough of Birsay, the vast majority of place names, and the runic inscriptions at Maeshowe. |
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