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Little is known about the origins of the Runic alphabet, which is traditionally known as futhark after the first six letters. In Old Norse the word rune means 'letter', 'text' or 'inscription'. The word also means 'mystery' or 'secret' in Old Germanic languages andrunes had a important role in ritual and magic.

Runic alphabets / Runes / Futhark - Omniglot

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Runes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Runes (Proto-Norse: ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo), Old Norse: rún) are the letters in a set of related alphabets known asrunic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latinalphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter.
Languages‎: ‎Germanic languages
Parent systems‎: ‎Phoenician‎: ‎Euboean a...
Child systems‎: ‎Younger Futhark‎, ‎Anglo-...

Runic alphabets / Runes / Futhark - Omniglot

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Little is known about the origins of the Runic alphabet, which is traditionally known as futhark after the first six letters. In Old Norse the word rune means 'letter', 'text' or 'inscription'. The word also means 'mystery' or 'secret' in Old Germanic languages and runes had a important role in ritual and magic.


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Origins of the Runes - Sunnyway.com

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The runes were influenced by Etruscan, ancient Latin and other alphabets.

runic alphabet | writing system | Britannica.com

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Writing system of uncertain origin used by Germanic peoples of northern Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from about the 3rd century to the 16th or 17th ...

Ancient Scripts: Futhark

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The Runic alphabet is also known as Futhark, a name composed from the first six letters of the alphabet, namely f, u, th, a, r, and k. In this way, "Futhark" is ...

Rune Converter: English Letters to Germanic Runes Converter

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The Rune Converter transforms Roman alphabet, as used in modern English, into five systems of Germanic runic writing: Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon runes, ...

Runes - Norse Mythology for Smart People

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The first systems of writing developed and used by the Germanic peoples were runic alphabets. The runes functioned as letters, but they were much more than ...

The Meanings of the Runes - Norse Mythology for Smart People

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This section provides the sign, name, phoneme, and short description of the meaning of each of the twenty-four runes that comprise the Elder Futhark. The given ...

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