2. Choose Your Version of the Futhark Runic Alphabet People sometimes want to write in Old Norse with the Elder Futhark runes, simply because they are visually more appealing. Why not. However, the standard runic alphabet for theViking Agerunic inscriptions was theYounger Futhark. It had three ...
Case A. You write your name in the Younger Futhark (Elder Futhark) runes. If the rules on which your rendering is based are okay, a Viking Age Norseman (a Migration Period Germanic runemaster) would be able to pronounce what is represented in runes or recognize it, should he know the na...
The Younger Futhark alphabet was used during the Viking Age in Scandinavia. But how many runes were there, and how do you pronounce them?
Discover the protective properties of Norse runes like AlgizProtection runes come from the Elder Futhark runic alphabet, a symbol-based language used starting in the 2nd and 3rd centuries of A.D. by Germanic and Scandinavian...
complete grammar and vocabulary for the language of the Viking Age Younger Futhark runic inscriptions allowing to translate coherent texts from other languages into it. As for the Elder Futhark, it isn’t suited for Old Norse inscriptions altogether, as I wrote in my shortGuide to Writing in ...