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    Viking Runes: The Historic Writing Systems of …

    • The exact origins of the runes used by the Germanic people of Northern Europein the first millennium of the Common Era are up for debate. The characters share similarities with various other w… See more

    What’s in A Name?

    We often see the rune systems referred to as ‘runic alphabets’, which is a perfectly acceptable term for most people. But alphabetcomes from ‘alpha beta’ or ‘aleph beth’ the tw… See more

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    Multiple Systems of Runes

    In terms of Viking runes in Scandinavia and elsewhere, there isn’t just one single set. Instead the systems continued to develop. We consider three different Futharks as covering th… See more

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    Elder Futhark Runes

    The Viking period kicked off with Norse still using the Elder Futhark, which is the one that most closely resembles the Italic scripts that it came from. There’s also evidence th… See more

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    Younger Futhark

    The most important development of runes as far as Vikings were concerned is the Younger Futhark. Oddly, as most other writing systems were expanding at the time, The Young… See more

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    What is the story behind Viking runes?
    There is a deep and interesting mythology behind Viking runes. The story goes that the god Odin impaled his own heart with his spear and hung on the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nine nights in order to understand the meanings of the runes. The runes were symbols that came from the Well of Urd, or Urðarbrunnr.
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