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  2. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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    [4] (pp 41–42) R.I. Page designated cweorð and stan "pseudo-runes" because they appear pointless, and speculated that cweorð was invented merely to give futhorc an equivalent to 'Q'. [4] (pp 41–42) The ę rune is likely a local innovation, possibly representing an unstressed vowel, and may derive its shape from ᛠ}.

  3. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection - Wikipedia

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    Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection is a collection of epic fantasy short stories and novellas written by American author Brandon Sanderson set in his Cosmere universe. It was published on November 22, 2016 by Tor Books .

  4. Runic magic - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Runes : A Handbook for the Use of an Ancient Oracle: The Viking Runes with Stones, St. Martin's Press; 10th anniversary ed. ISBN 0-312-09758-1. Flowers, Stephen (1986), Runes and magic: magical formulaic elements in the older runic tradition , vol. 53 of American university studies: Germanic languages and literatures, P. Lang, ISBN ...

  5. Resilience week - Wikipedia

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    Since its inception, the Resilience Week community has evolved from one that primarily included only university researchers to one that includes many government laboratories, [16] [17] universities [18] [19] [20] and private industries [21] in the US and internationally. This type of collaboration forms a feedback loop that informs the research ...

  6. Algiz - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Futhark rune ᛉ is conventionally called Algiz or Elhaz, from the Common Germanic word for "elk". [citation needed]There is wide agreement that this is most likely not the historical name of the rune, but in the absence of any positive evidence of what the historical name may have been, the conventional name is simply based on a reading of the rune name in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem ...

  7. Profanity in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    He advises writers that "less is more", and that if it really is the right thing for a character to be "salty", it should be made clear to the reader why, observing as an example that in his science fiction novel Limbo Search the profanity used by character Janice Tyne is a symptom of her fear and tension, caused by being burned out at age 27 ...

  8. Armanen runes - Wikipedia

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    Armanen runes and their transcriptions. Armanen runes (or Armanen Futharkh) are 18 pseudo-runes, inspired by the historic Younger Futhark runes, invented by Austrian mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List during a state of temporary blindness in 1902, and described in his Das Geheimnis der Runen ("The Secret of the Runes"), published as a periodical article in 1906, and as a ...

  9. Younger Futhark - Wikipedia

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    The j rune was rendered superfluous due to Old Norse sound changes, but was kept with the new sound value of a. The old z rune was kept (transliterated in the context of Old Norse as ʀ) but moved to the end of the rune row in the only change of letter ordering in Younger Futhark. The third ætt was reduced by four runes, losing the e, ŋ, o ...