A guide to Old Norse names http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONNames.htm ALPHABETUM- a Unicode font for ancient scripts, including Classical & Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberian, Celtiberian, Gothic, Runic, Old & Middle English, Hebre...
The Rune Converter transforms Roman alphabet, as used in modern English, into five systems of Germanic runic writing: Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon runes, Long Branch Younger Futhark, Short Twig Younger Futhark and staveless runes (note that it does not translate the words themselves, it only ...
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This also hints towards the problem with the multitude of books relating to ‘runic divination’ based upon using the runic alphabet (futhark). I reject ALL of them. I know, I’ve been in that state of delusion, too. The meanings ascribed to the letters of the futhark are no more than...
To see how these runic letters looked, you can find several versions of the futhark, or runic alphabet, on the web:Norwegian Runes,Swedish Runes, andDanish Runes. The various runic alphabets used by the Vikings would be the ones found roughly between 800AD and 1100AD, which are the dates...
Because literacy was not common in Norse cultures prior to their contact with Christianity, runic alphabets notwithstanding, many of the Norse myths were not written down until the new religion had introduced the Latin alphabet. This comparative obscurity may have actually helped the Norse gods, or...
What did it feel like for Vikings to have the Younger Futhark as an alphabet in the Viking Age? Imagine you have your standard English alphabet. Then you have a reform based on the fact that the writing system is exceedingly complex and the letters are too many. Let us cut down their ...
The Younger Futhark runic alphabet of 16 runes was accepted by the 10th century in the whole of Scandinavia. This set of runes that may be called Viking runes.
About 125 inscriptions dated fromad200 to 600, carved in the older runic alphabet (futhark), are chronologically and linguistically the oldest evidence of any Germaniclanguage. Most are fromScandinavia, but enough have been found in southeastern Europe to suggest that the use of runes was also fa...