• A runic inscription is an inscription made in one of the various runic alphabets. They generally contained practical information or memorials instead of...
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    fourth letter, ⟨ᚨ⟩/⟨ᚩ⟩. Runology is the academic study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialised...
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  • article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. A gold ring (necklace)...
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    possible runic inscriptions on the parapet and he handed them over to the Norwegian Runic archive in 1997. There may be additional runic inscriptions waiting...
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    database includes, in addition, 16 inscriptions containing a single rune, several runic coins, and 8 cases of dubious runic characters (runelike signs, possible...
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    of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period. Inscriptions are found...
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  • article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The Younger Futhark...
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    The Sigurd stones form a group of eight or nine Swedish runic inscriptions (five or six runestones, two natural rocks, and a baptismal font) and one picture...
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    forms of "runic magic", some of which were continued or developed further by contemporary adherents of Germanic Neopaganism. Modern systems of runic divination...
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    style KB. This is the classification for inscriptions with a cross that is bordered by the runic text. The runic text states that it was raised in memory...
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    article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The Jelling stones...
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    runic magic or is a metaphor (or metonym) for it. It is the most common of the early runic charm words. The word disappears from runic inscriptions shortly...
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    Runestone (redirect from Runic Stone)
    runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock. The tradition...
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  • the most important runic find in the twentieth century. Before the find of these inscriptions, there was doubt whether the runes were ever used for anything...
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  • Runic is a Unicode block containing runic characters. It was introduced in Unicode 3.0 (1999), with eight additional characters introduced in Unicode...
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    Runology (redirect from Runic Studies)
    Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions, and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics. Runology...
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    bind rune called a same-stave rune, which is common in Scandinavian runic inscriptions but does not occur at all in Anglo-Saxon runic inscriptions, is...
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  • contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The t-rune ᛏ is named...
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    catalog as runic inscription G 88, is a Swedish runestone which dates from about 400 AD. It is notable for its listing of each of the runes in the Elder...
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    medieval runes, or the futhork, was a Scandinavian runic alphabet that evolved from the Younger Futhark after the introduction of stung (or dotted) runes at...
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  • Othala (redirect from Othala Rune)
    article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. Othala (ᛟ), also...
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  • about 3,000 runestones in Scandinavia (out of a total of about 6,000 runic inscriptions). The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: The majority...
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  • article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. Sowilo (*sōwilō)...
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    is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic inscription in stone. It can now be seen beside the church in Rök, Ödeshög Municipality...
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  • The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-826-9. MacLeod, Mindy (2002). Bind-Runes: an Investigation...
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  • meaning "boar"). The inscription also shows the only runic appearance of the name of Iceland, while there are five other runic inscriptions in Sweden that mention...
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  • transcriptions from runic inscriptions into standardized Old Norse are in the Swedish and Danish dialect to facilitate comparison with the inscriptions, while the...
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  • Algiz (redirect from Algiz Rune)
    However, possibly due to runic manuscript tradition, it was occasionally used to transliterate the Latin letter X into the runic script.[citation needed]...
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  • Runic transliteration and transcription are part of analysing a runic inscription which involves transliteration of the runes into Latin letters, transcription...
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  • Eihwaz (redirect from Eihwaz rune)
    Connolly theorized that the rune originally stood for a Proto-Germanic vowel lost by the time of the earliest known runic inscriptions, though they put forth...
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