The Younger Futhark alphabet was used during the Viking Age in Scandinavia. But how many runes were there, and how do you pronounce them?
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...
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 variants: Long Branch: Danish runes (also often consid...
elder futhark protection runes download article 1 algiz the most well-known viking rune out there, algiz resembles a trident, or a lowercase l with a v intersecting along the top. algiz stands for protection as well as other important qualities, like defense and one’s ability to survive. [...
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 Runes. ...