Light shone off the blade brilliantly and several words in futhark were in the blade. |
The futhark was an alphabet of runes, used by Germanic people until the fifteenth century. |
The oldest form of this alphabet is known as elder futhark, a named derived from the sound of the first six letters. |
One hypothesis is to cut as fo-slau where fo would represent the futhark by its first and its last letter, and where slau would be a magical formula. |
The ordered set of letters, what we call the alphabet, was referred to as the futhark, or futhorc, or other like names, depending on the language and the current letter set. |
Norse was written in the runic alphabet, first with the elder futhark and from the 9th century with the younger futhark. |