| 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 sounds of the first six letters were f, u, th, a, r, and k, respectively, giving the alphabet its name: futhark. |
| The oldest form of this alphabet is known as elder futhark, a named derived from the sound of the first six letters. |
| The futhark was an alphabet of runes, used by Germanic people until the fifteenth century. |
| 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. |
| It didn't really matter if I mixed Latin written in a Scandinavian futhark with English or Italian in a Celtic futhorc in the same painting. |
