And you find yourself sitting alone, thinking of someone you knew before something you must have said about scrimshaw or futhark. |
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. |
The bracteate is the oldest and best record of the tripartite division of the futhark. |
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. |
Light shone off the blade brilliantly and several words in futhark were in the blade. |