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Several famous English examples mix runes and Roman script, or Old English and Latin, on the same object, including the Franks Casket and St Cuthbert's coffin; in the latter, three of the names of the Four Evangelists are given in Latin written in runes, but "LUKAS" is in Roman script. The coffin is also an example of an object created at the ...
The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: The majority are found in Sweden, estimated at between 1,700 [2] and 2,500 (depending on definition). Denmark has 250 runestones, and Norway has 50. [2] There are also runestones in other areas reached by the Viking expansion, especially in the British Isles. [3]
Warlock of the Stonecrowns is an adventure intended for a party of four to six player characters of levels between four and ten, in which the Warlock has been raising an army in his Citadel in the Stonecrown mountains, seeking vengeance against his awnshegh father the Gorgon by conquering neighboring domains or forcing alliances with them. [1]
Geographic distribution of the Sigurd stones. 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 stone that depict imagery from the Germanic heroic legend of Sigurd the dragon slayer.
A silver-plated copper disk, originally part of a sword-belt, found at Liebenau, Lower Saxony with an early 5th-century runic inscription (mostly illegible, interpreted as possibly reading rauzwih) is classed as the earliest South Germanic (German) inscription known by the RGA (vol. 6, p. 576); the location of Liebenau is close to the boundary ...
The Gilded Rune, by Lisa Smedman (paperback, July 2012, ISBN 978-0-7869-6030-9) Prince of Ravens by Richard Baker (audio book/eBook, July 2012, ISBN 978-0-7869-6131-3 ) If Ever They Happened Upon My Lair by R. A. Salvatore (eBook, September 2012)
The name Haþuwulfar has the common Viking Age name element of wulafa meaning "wolf" [2] and heru, which when combined in personal names, means a "host" or "magnitude." [ 3 ] It has been suggested that the assignment of such a name is related to ritualistic practices and religious wolf-symbolism used in the initiation of young warriors.
The rune poem itself does not provide the names of the runes. Rather, each stanza is a riddle, to which the rune name is the solution. But the text in Hickes' 1705 publication is glossed with the name of each rune. It is not certain if these glosses had been present in the manuscript itself, or if they were added by Hickes.